Adjusting to Living on the Surface of the Sun

Finished our clinic yesterday and am excited to now just be able to focus on the public health part of our job. Hightlights of the clinic this week included putting in another iv in a baby, taking out sutures, helping with a biopsy, and cleaning a little boys severly burned hand. Outside of that things are going about the same. The longer I am here the more I come to appreciate certain things, such as listed below....

1. "Air conditioning" here, because it is free, all one must do is roll down their window.
2. The excellent dieting programs here-eat some food, feel nauseated for a few days, don´t eat food and lose those extra pounds you have been trying to drop all summer.
3. Corrupt police, because they don´t bug you at all...actually they don´t do anything at all except accept bribes.
4. Packed vehicles, because everyone crammed together adds padding on bumpy roads.
5. Four lane traffic on two lane roads, because there aren´t as many traffic jams and one never has to wait for a dotted line to pass another vehicle.
6. No littering fines, because one doesn´t have to wait to find a trashcan, just dump it in your neighbors lawn or anywhere else you chose.
7. Easy food shopping-it is simple here, there is only brown sugar and bananas, not fifty different kinds, get the one kind available or don´t get it at all.
8. Constant attention-even on the days that you are covered in sweat and dirt, someone will inevitably whistle at you or tell you that they love you.
9. Music from the 90s-what was once popular in America then is now popular here now...love me some Avril Lavin.
10. Sitting around all day is actually the norm here, not considered lazy.

Once again, I am not hating on Peru, I am actually have a good time here, just hard to get used to a totally different mindset! Sorry no picts this time!