City!
No wonder my professors love this place, this must feel like home when you`ve been weeks in the middle of the forest, doing research in the middle of countless insects, in old moldy clothes with sweat dripping off from your neck, and fresh water is a stuff of dreams..
We came back from the river in the morning, in a nice homely weather, about +28 degrees, rainy and a bit windy (quite chilly that is!). So strange to be back, like home, browsing internet, buying water from a store, sleeping in not smelly sheets... and when your legs tickle, it IS your imagination and not one of the hundreds of inscets.. strange. And the water that comes from the shower is actually not that sticky one straight from the Amazon. Luxury.
I have written diary every day, but I do not know how to start.
Maybe with the first day.
At the moment I am a bit ignorant of the rest of my visit.
Devon, where are you...
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2/9/2012
Sitting on the deck of our boat.
First morning in the Amazon, it`s 7 am.
Woke up to the yell of a cuckoo in the 5 am.
We`re staying at the moment in Yanamoto, Luis`(our spanish translator) aunts frontier.
We came here yesterday at 6 pm, to taste and buy liquer they make of a lian (firewater). I really do not know why we aren`t yet moving to Napo.
Here`s only 4 personnel at the moment. Soon a doctor will reach us with a speed boat from Iquitos. Until then, here`s a six of us "students", the dentist who apparently likes to clean up too (Jose Adam), a guy who fixes and knows everything (Emerson), the cook (Danillo) and the captain (Eugenio).
Some kind of black bird is making the loudest and weirdest sounds at the tree next to the boat.
Yesterday we mostly sat around, ate and panicked with learning medical spanish. I still have no clue what we actually will do at the clinics, time will tell.
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3/9/2012
Work is finally starting.
I hope I won`t get used to this culture
because I am afraid I won`t get anything done anymore then.
We waited for the doctor yesterday until 5 pm. She was supposed to come at 9 am.
It`s the culture differences which create a little bit frustration (already).
You are asking so many times per day
what we`re doing tomorrow
and you getalways ì do not know`or `do not worry about tomorrow, why are you worried by that?`
Then, when tomorrow comes,
you very suddenly get commands about things you are supposed to do right away.
Being a person who likes to use her time efficiently, that`s a bit too little perpaparation time for the future.
Now it`s 7.30 am and appaently we are leaving from the village of cute kids of none of which we helped in any way yesterday. Here the daily rhythm goes by the sun. Because the doctor came after 5 pm, to them there was no point of doing any clinic stuff anymore (the sun sets at 6 pm).
Yesterday we just sorted out a crazy pile of medicines to boxes, of most the staff members have messed up alread, while looking for something specific they need to know if the doctor needs.
Hurray for structure..
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