Pills and Painting

Well today was cool. The construction crew arrived at the project only to find that the project was all ready done! So we ended up painting the entire school! It was really cool though because we expected it to just be us 6 guys painting the entire school, but the entire community came with whatever they could find. One lady had half a soda bottle, a little boy had an old cookie tin. However they did not have any paintbrushes. So whenever we places our brush down to take a swig of water, we would turn around and it would be gone. But it was really nice because the job got done in one day! And entire school painted inside and out in just 5 hours! Then when we were returning to the van to go home our driver told us to help one of the workers push his car to jump the clutch. So we pushed his car, uphill, and got it started. About 50 yards down the road he stalled and so we walked over and started to push again,uphill. Rodger yelled " en el nombre de Jesus", the car sputtered and he got it going again and we finally left. We ended up going to the clinic to help the ladies at the clinic, sort off. We just played soccer with the kids until the finished. The clinic was set up in a school. We setup in three different rooms. The first was for deworming, vitamins, glasses, toothbrushes, toothpaste, and taking blood pressure. Next was the nurses station were the Laura and Tanya saw all the patients. Finally there was the pharmacy where the medicine was distributed. We treated many different illnesses with the simple medications we had. We treated a lot children. A few of us played soccer with the kids and painted the girls nails, even a few of the moms' nails. A few of the little boys had fun teaching us a few Spanish words. They would point to something tell us the word and repeat it. They seemed to have lots of fun teaching us! We were able to treat 200 people! Tim and Amanda, for the team