whoah...

sorry i have been away. our internet has been down for a few days, although i´m not sure i would have updated much anyway. the last few days have been crazy with a capital CRAZY. we started working in the hospital monday morning. we will be at five different hospital/clinical sites for 3-4 days each while we´re here. this week was (theoretically) just observation in one of costa rica´s public hospitals. they have universal health care here and it is AMAZING. and they have no army. so cool.

yesterday was one of the most incredible days of my life. yesterday i saw five new humans get born. i have never seen that before. it is crazy with a capital CRAZY.

anyway, i can´t really talk very long right now, and quite honestly i´m not entirely sure what to say right now anyway. i feel lots of things, including but not limited to a huge sense of freedom being here, away from reality and many things that suck most days. i love not having a cell phone, and again i feel a kind of freedom at being semi-unreachable. it is nice to not feel connected sometimes, as much as i long for connection. i don´t really know how to explain that, i guess. every day has something new and wonderful in it, even if it´s as simply as a new flavor of juice at breakfast or a strange new bug crawling across the floor. i am trying to figure out what to do during my incredibly long and unplanned spring break. our final classes/events keep getting moved up earlier, so i think i will get nearly a month to travel and play. if anyone wants to come on a voyage with me i could use a buddy. let me know.

time to head back for dinner now. thanks for reading all this crud. things can definitely be tough here sometimes too. when nine people are together allllll the time it can be rough, but i really think we´re doing a great job for the most part. i will definitely write again when i can. for now i am going to post this without even editing it, which is a huge deal for me. please excuse any errors....
love you friends. more soon soon.