Just Some Thoughts...

This is for Lolo! Here's the alligator we saw at the restaurant last weekend. I'm pretty sure it was plotting it's attack to eat all of us as we were watching it, so I think it's best if you leave alligators in the wild instead of in your house! I don't know if they have domesticated alligators, but maybe a nice pet lizard or a garden snake would work better than an alligator! :)



We drove about two hours to our outreach clinic today. It was super hot inside the Church, and I was really hungry all day. We saw about 70 patients and had 5 referrals for cataract and pterygium surgeries. Everything went well, but the staff was so eager to get back so they could watch the World Cup! The games started today, and I'm watching France vs. Uruguay as we speak! I think France is favored among the group I'm in, but we'll see what happens! I wish I knew more about soccer and the World Cup so that I could somewhat follow along, but I'm learning as we go I think. At least I'm trying!

I just finished my second book since I've been here. First I read Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert and then I finished The Firm by John Grisham this morning. Both were just great! I can't believe I've read this much in just 11 days! Next on the list is The White Man's Burden by William Easterly. I definitely think this choice is appropriate for the kind of work I'm doing and the experience I'm going through right now. So far (as in the first 20 pages), the book offers a very interesting view on why certain efforts to end poverty, hunger, and other social injustices in the developing world have failed despite $2.3 trillion given to these causes. I'm very interested in ready more about what this man has to say on such a controversial subject.

I think we're going out to a club tonight and hitting up the market tomorrow! Sounds like a fun weekend! Can't wait to tell you all about it! :)