Thursday, January 14, 2016

Coffee, house building, and more - January 14th

This past week alone has been life changing. I was given a once in a lifetime opportunity to watch yesterday to watch two surgeries at the local hospital.  Today we split up in two groups; one went to work on the cinder block house and the wooden house.

Yesterday I went to watch two very interesting surgeries. Without Dr. Rey and my endeavor to become a pediatrician one day this opportunity would have never crossed  any of our paths. In both of the surgeries that I watched the surgeons removed the fallopian tubes and the cervix. The surgeons were very kind and helpful with describing what they were doing at the time. In total each surgery was about an hour and forty five minutes in length.

Today we went to the wooden house to and helped finish building it. We hammered the thin strips into the house and sawed a lot of wood.  I got to speak with the children of the house they were very playful and showed me there chickens.

In the afternoon we went to the coffee processing plant to watch how coffee is produced and made into a bean from a little fruit. We sorted non roasted beans for about an hour. Then we watched the locals who worked at the plant turn fruit into small peeled fruits.

-Brenden Legaspi
Two surgeons that I got to shadow. Zach and Rita.

Almost done with the house!


Coffee beans drying







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