1 week in Peru

As our first week of work at the Hogar San Pedro is coming to an end, we are all getting ready for a most exciting weekend. We will be heading to Lima for an international Tuberculosis conference. The program looks amazing (and is extremely relevant to us, considering that a great proportion of our patients at the Hogar are affected have tuberculosis). What a great timing: this conference could not be better placed, considering that we are all eager to learn more about the Hogar´s patients medical conditions. Also, we will be staying in the luxurious Casa San Jose, a mansion belonging to the same Fathers working at the Hogar San Pedro. Also on the program for the weekend: a visit of Lima´s main tourist attractions... should be awesome.

For the rest, the days are going by very fast. The pace is very mellow at the Hogar, leaving us lots of time to relax, do our daily workouts and play tons of sports. Tonight, we went to play soccer in the village of Ricardo Palma with some of the male staff working at the Hogar. We are slowly getting accustomed to white rice (which we eat 2 times per day...) and bunk beds. Ana is feeling much better and we are getting along very well as a group.