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hello amigos,

i don't have time to post much since i spent all the internet time getting all these pics up for your viewing pleasure! today was a good day...learned a lot of Spanish, Neil taught us how to play "Set" during lunch, and i got to play with a really cute puppy this morning (see the pics) at La Iguana Perdida while studying and enjoying that renowned Guatemalan coffee. Tomorrow Craig and Carmen (the docs we're working with) are heading to Antigua to drop Haley and Lianna off (they are finished with their 4 weeks of the program and are heading out to travel before going back home to the States), so we all have different assignments. I'm excited as I get to head out with Christina and one of the clinic staff, Martita, to interview the native women about their breastfeeding practices. Many women here breastfeed until their children are 3 and 4 years old, which I know may be practice for some groups of women world-wide, but here they do it to the exclusion of introducing ANY solid foods. This, as you can imagine, greatly contributes to the malnutrition problem here among other things (lack of immunity, dental issues..etc). So we will be going out to these women's homes tomorrow and interviewing them, hopefully we'll visit about 15 women. Ok, really got to go, love to all and please check out the pics (all Santa Cruz..some of our hotel, the trek to/from the clinic, the clinic itself, views of the lake and lakeshore from the boat, and my fellow classmates) at the following website until I get them uploaded to the right as a picture link!

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