The rain is REALLY here

Tuesday, June 14th
SO IT FINALLY REALLY REALLY RAINED last night! We now know what they talk about for the rainy season. I was supposed to get up and try and run (yes for the first time since the marathon) with Jackie but it was monsooning out. It poured straight from 2am - 8am. It had cooled down so much I actually wore JEANS to work today!
Yesterday was a good but very busy day. Jim and I headed to Belize City at 7am with Anna and Lavern for a meeting at UNICEF. The meeting went EXTREMELY well and we have convinced all the district managers from the Ministry of Health to donate their data clerks time to enter the data collected in our program into an online database to track statistics and ease the whole program. After our meeting, we had a nice lunch of shake and bake chicken at a local cafe. Lavern had actually brought her very sick 1.5 year old son with us to Belize City. I guess he has been sick for so long and no one in Cayo knows what is wrong. We got to experience private health care here and it is still very interesting. Turns out the poor boy has pnemonia and needs surgery on his sinuses - reminds me of Katie Woehrles sinuses! At least she now knows what is wrong with him.
Today, Tuesday, we had a meeting at the local HECOPAB office which took all day. Though, we made a lot of progress. Not much else to report :) We have to head to either Guatamala by Thursday or to the Capital Belmopan since our 30 day visa is up! OOPPPS - we have been so busy we forgot about it - we will figure it out though!

Until later - we miss all you Americans!!!