On the way to recovery

After another rough night last night I decided it was time to visit the doctor. When we arrived at the school before going there was a beautiful view of the volcano below.

The beautiful view of the Volcano

Michelle, one of the SolCom leaders, took me in a tuk-tuk, a mini 3-wheeled taxi, to the Antigua hospital. I was a little nervous to trust a Guatemalan doctor but when I arrived the place looked beautiful and the doctor was so friendly and I did feel like he knew what he was talking about. Also, the Giatemalan doctors are especially good at prescribing stomach issues in foreigners since that is very common here. But, what is NOT so common is what my diagnosis is...Not only do I have a stomach infection, but I also have Amoeba in my stomach!! He gave me two pills to take tonight which will kill it within 12 hours but is killling my stomach currently and Cipro that I take for 6 days. Thank god I went to the doctor!! But so unlucky that within one week of being in Guatemala I have both an innfenction and an amoeba. I am hoping this is my fair dose of sickness and I can last the rest of the trip...crossing my fingers!

The beautiful doctor's office

                                         The medicine I was prescribed to kill the Amoeba...ew

After I returned from the doctors I was expecting to have to study Spanish for two hours but instead the tutors were celebrating a birthday and decided to make a dance party! 

The dance party with our tutors!

I really did not want to eat more bread and bananas for lunch so we decided to go out to lunch. I got this beautiful plate of steamed vegetables and grilled chicken...a perfect meal!

My lunch at Cafe Sky

After lunch we split into our groups and learned about the big projects we are going to be doing. My group is in charge of the stoves. There are three types of stoves the cement stove, the metal stove, and the small portable rocket stove. Throughout the rest of the time we are going to be thinking of different strategies to best market and reach the people that are most in need of stoves to make the most possible sales. It is really exciting I get to work with stoves because it is the most high impact product we offer. Taking someone's home from having to cook with wood on the ground and with smoke filling the lungs of them and their children to having a stove that doesnt emit smoke and makes cooking so much more efficient is really a life-changing addition to homes that before us had no access to this change. I am excited to see the different approaches we take to marketing and finding our target audience to sell our stoves to, along with adding our own two sense as to how we think we can improve what is already in place. 

We returned home and I told my parents I had an amoeba and an infection and they were shocked. I bought cards today and Daneysa and I played so many card games my head was going to explode. Then we had dinner (mine was bananas and bread) but I was glad I didnt have to eat the fried chicken, beans, and tortillas the rest of the family had. Then Daneysa and I played games on my phone and she showed me all of her friends on her facebook and she left at around 9:30. So much bonding time with Daneysa! But, she accidentally deleted EVERY picture on my camera... 

ITS MY BIRTHDAY IN AN HOUR! I don't know what is going to be different tomorrow but I am excited! I probably will stay up til midnight just as tradition, not that anyone is really on the same time zone as me.