Day 5

Hello! Today was another great day in Nicaragua. Breakfast was at 6:45, and we arrived at the clinic just before 8 o'clock. The clinic was much less chaotic today than it was yesterday. I worked in the dental area and it was so interesting! I was able to participate in cleanings, fillings, and extractions. The three dentists were Nicaraguan women. At first, the language barrier made it somewhat difficult to understand what tools they were asking for to perform certain procedures, but I eventually got the hang of it. We also had a wonderful translator though who is actually studying to be a dentist herself- so that really helped, of course! We saw a total of 32 patients in the dental section of our clinic. The dentists are amazing. They worked so hard! Today we closed the clinic about an hour and 45 minutes after our intended closing time. When we returned to the guesthouse dinner was prepared for us and we all ate it so quickly! Our dinner consisted of spaghetti with meat sauce, salad, banana bread, and bread with butter. The food here is great! After dinner, a group of us walked to the ice cream shop that we can't seem to get enough of! I happen to be obsessed with the ice cream flavor "pasion queque," which we jokingly translate literally as "passion whatwhat." After our ice cream adventure, we walked back to the guesthouse and sat outside chatting about all different kinds of things. We certainly never run out of things to talk about! We even got complemented today by Jo Ann and Dr. Diana for how well we all work together and get along :) Well, that's all for now! Tomorrow is another day of clinics, hopefully it will run as smoothly as today!

-- Chloe :)