· The clinic is set in a beautiful back drop in the mountains in Intibuca Department (province)
· Patient travel extremely far, often in the heat, walking up to 3+ hours to get to the clinic and wait several hours to be seen. One patient arrived on homemade crutches and others came with 3-6 children in tow, the little ones often were in cloth slings on their mothers back
· Community is extremely grateful and generous. Some patients brought gifts of appreciation from the little they have including plantains, potatoes, and eggs.
· Incredible fresh food, which women worked all day to prepare for us, in addition to completing their own family obligations.
· Extremely hard working people, sometimes working up to 70 years of age in the field with very little complaints
· Seeing 5 year olds working with the machetes at 6 in the morning
· Students were thankful to have clinic as housing quarters with flush toilets, as previous students did not have those luxury
· After a few days, the students got used to not having electricity and eating dinner by headlamp
· The cold shower and occasional lack of water, broadened their horizons regarding resource limitations that many in the world face
· Got used to sleeping when dark and up with daylight. There was an hour of daylight to explore the community before getting starting with breakfast and treating patients for the day
· Stars were brightest they have ever seen
· Driving on unpaved twisting, mountainous roads can be scary, but our experience driver Nehemiah always gets us to our destination safely
· The community had a lot of dogs that serve as guard dogs and they view the animals differently than we do. It left many of us missing our furry friends at home.
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