Day 5

Buenos Dias Everyone!

I hope everyone is having a nice day! I woke up about 6am and came to the house for breakfast (the house I am staying at is about 6 blocks away give or take)
Today was certainly busy for me. Today we toured the Biblica and Ebais and had our 3 hour Spanish Class. We toured the Biblica which is a Private Clinic. Each floor has a wall dedicated to a famous volcano that is found here in Costa Rica! You will see this in the pictures below.  This private clinical was beautiful. It looked brand new on the inside. We first toured the Emergency Room and you are going to see a picture of that below as well. It will be labeled! the emergency room has about 15 beds, and there are rooms with glass doors that are used when children come into the ER because it provides more of a protection for them. The other rooms have curtains, and there are also 2 negative pressure rooms as well for certain medical conditions. In layman's terms, that is a room where the air is only circulated in that room and is in no way in contact with other rooms or the hall! The next thing that we saw were the pharmacy's.  There are 3 of them- I did not get to see all 3 of them, but they all work together in the clinic to provide for the patients. The waiting rooms on the floors have wireless internet and computers for those who are waiting to see their doctors. The old hospital is connected to this clinic and is used as doctor offices now. The doctors that work here do not work for the clinic, they rent a spot at the clinic and pay to the clinic to be open there. They can construct there offices the way that they want to and see their patients at the clinic. It is very interesting. There are about 14 different rooms on the floors and there are maternity wards, ICU, ORs (that are usually used for elective surgeries). There is so much more that I more than likely can not even remember. Oh yeah- there are about 70 beds in the hospital! The average stay for a pt here is about 2.3 days because remember it is ELECTIVE or when someone gives birth (maternity), so patients are usually not here very long.
The second place that we went to was Ebais, which is like a community health center. I did not tour here, but my friend Goup and I did take a lot of blood pressures, heights and weights in order to help out the nurses! It was a lot of fun. I am coming to find that I can understand what people are saying to me, but I can not talk well... It will come with time I think!

And of Course we had Spanish School today from  1-4pm. Today was our last day. I was really sad to say goodbye to the teachers. My teacher's name was Roberto, and he is just a gem! I loved learning with him. He did not speak English, but I learned so much! He was easy to understand. Today we had different pictures and we labeled the picture in Spanish and then figured out how to ask "Where do you buy these things, where do you put these things, and when do you use these things?" We asked eachother these questions and made up replys- it was very funny! Krissy was hysterical. We also had a story read to us about the Costa Rica Climate in Spanish and had to answer questions about it (T/F) in Spanish! It was so fun!! Thank you Roberto for a wonderful day!

Pictures!

-Kara