so its been a month. sorry! ive been busy and bored at the same time.
updates:
-the house that my community is building me will be done in two weeks! ill be moving by september!
-i spent one week in july working in puerto plata with the university of southern maine medical mission. we visited poor mountainous communities and gave out vitamins, aspirin, athletes foot medication, etc. while doing basic analysis for the patients. there were about 50 medical/nursing students and 10 peace corps translators. it was super interesting and a great mini-vacation.
- this month i start educating current health promotors in 10 surrounding communities. i will have 4 different workshop weekends, amounting to 10 hours of presentation. lots of preparation. they will be learning about 12 large, basic health topics and how to present information in their community.
-this upcoming weekend i am attending a training for bio-sand filters held by the rotary club. hopefully we can build these filters in houses.. purifying the river water we currently drink.

exciting updates:
-my host mother randomly brought home a waffle iron and gave it to me! she had no clue what it was! sunday brunch-- here i come!
- my host mother will also be gifting me her current oven and stove (it is in bad shape, so she wants to get a new one).

hope to type up a better update soon!