Our time here is flying by!!

Hi again :) Sorry I didn't update this all weekend, the internet at our house is out and the university is still
on strike so I'm having to do this from my phone at a coffee shop.. We had a great weekend and thankfully the rain didn't mess up our plans :) Friday was our (3 of us) last day at the peds hospital and we watched surgery (quirofano). I watched one on a 12/13 yr old girl and have never seen (except maybe in a book or on tv) a tumor so big and four more smaller ones-poor thing, but maybe she will be okay and they aren't cancerous!
Saturday and Sunday were full days!!! Saturday we went to Monte Alban and had an awesome tour guide-he was very very sick a few years ago and at the ICU here and KSU nursing students donated blood to help save his life-such an amazing story :)
then we went to Arrazola which is a pueblo (small rural town) somewhat near Monte Alban (you can see them from each other) and the entire pueblo makes Alibrijes (wooden carved animals that are painted very beautiful, bold colors). I took a lot
of pictures of both places because my descriptions couldn't begin to do either place justice! So, I will
post those when we get back home. I bought 2 Alibrijes :)
Sunday we went to San Bartolo Coyotepec at the Doña Rosa house and their famous Barro Negro (black pottery) and they make all of it by hand-no machines -even a manual potters wheel and the black clay is natural not dyed and depending on how long it is fired determines if it is black (9-12 days) or more grey and able to hold water (13+days). Then we went to Teotitlan where they weave rugs, placemats, napkins, purses, etc and they do EVERYTHING-spin the wool, dye the wool (all natural-from bug eggs from a cactus plant, adding lime juice or sodium bicarbonate, from natural indigo rock, etc) and then they weave it on a huge machine (the rugs at least) using their feet and hands-it's so amazing & so much work!!! We were given a demo and she said that it takes about 6 months for a 2 meter size rug-amazing!!!
We also had lunch each day and Sunday I tried a chapuline which is a delicacy here---also known as grasshoppers!!! It was really salty I thought! It was so small it was hard to really even taste it!
I came back to mi casa Sunday afternoon and passed out for a couple of hours-I was so tired but it was a lot of fun and I took a lot of pictures and videos :)


Well I never got to finish the other night-now I'm at mi casa Thurs (Jueves) night and we have Internet again...
Monday we started at Hospital Civil and the other 3 went to the peds hosp. I went to the ICU (UCI) and the other two to labor & delivery (partos). We only had one patient but he had tetanus-very interesting! Then he developed diabetes insipidus-very sad, but very very interesting since we don't really see either of those in the US. Then yesterday (Wed) I went to partos with the other 2 and it was awesome! They said they have on average 30births every 24hrs-BUSY!! We saw 2 births and 1 c-section with twins then a tubal ligation-so cool!
Today and tomorrow are our "free" days. We went to the Santo Domingo museum today and had lunch with the assistants of the secretary of health from the entire state of Oaxaca-high up people! Tomorrow I think we are going to an art museum and Hotel Victoria which apparently we can go to the top and see the entire city :)
We have also still been having our Spanish lesson every week night for an hour and we began Tuesday partnering up with our intercambios-Mexican students learning English in the University (to become Eng teachers here) and that has been so great because we can really learn practical phrases/slang/sayings, etc and they have been so nice and helpful! Hopefully we have helped them as well! Last night (Wed/miercoles) the director of the language center took all 6 students and Dr. Wilson out to dinner and gave us our 'diplomas/certificates' for the Span classes :) the dinner I thought was very very good and a very healthy place-called 100% natural-I had Jamaica con piña juice which is hibiscus water (literally they soak the hibiscus flower in hot water& then cool it) with pineapple-YUM! Jamaica bybitselfmis also very good-I had it at mi casa and at La Capilla Sat-it tastes like fruit punch. Today Dr. Wilson and one of the students left.
Then Saturday we leave our casas and familias oaxaquenos for the airport at 630am--to early!! It will be a long day of traveling but we should be home Saturday night :-D I'm excited to get back home to see hubby & my family & friends-yes that means you mom ;) but I'll miss my oaxacan family and Oaxaca itself-I've felt so welcomed here and everyone I have met has been so nice and just truly genuine-it was a very refreshing difference unfortunately than what sometimes I see in the US! I cannot wait to come back and see so many other places we just didn't have time to see...as my host mom said tonight "¡la falta es el tiempo!"

I hope to post at least once more and add pics soon after we get back! Thanks to everyone for your prayers, thoughts, love, & support! Hope to see everyone soon! ¡Que se va bien, cuidate!