Pineapple Land

Yesterday was a great day! It started with some beans and rice and some coffee then some meetings. Dr. Karla and I are building a great referral network for the kids and setting up arrangements for discounted services at several specialists’ offices. Then we went to visit two of the schools to talk to the director’s really fast about the arrangements that we set up and get them set up for this month of March.

Then we went back to the dentist office and helped a little girl with special needs with her appointment. The mother had not bought or given the little girl the sedative to help with the appointment. Dr. Karla and I went to buy it at the pharmacy next door but they didn’t have it in liquid form only in pill. So we bought the pill and went with it. I crushed it up and diluted it in 3mL of water then calculated the dose. Then I drew up the 0.3mL and gave it to the little girl. 10minutes later she was very relaxed and the dentist had no problem.

Then Dr. Karla and I met up with Ginny the on-site head of NRN (the organization we are working with) to have lunch. Then we went off to PINEAPPLE LAND. We went in the four-wheel drive truck and went up up up a big long hill through a village called el crucero, another called San Marcus and then made it to La Concha. The entire area up there is known for its Pineapple plantations, other tropical fruits too like ganabana, and for its hydrangea flowers. The sulfur in the air blown over from the volcanoes makes the soil perfect for these things grown. The Pineapples are white and yellow…and O SO GOOD. The hydrangeas are the brightest blue. It is beautiful there. 

We went to pineapple land to visit the school that is there and set up a relationship with them. The school is great and the people we met seem really competent and enthusiastic too. However, there is no water and they only recently got electricity. This site will have its own set of challenges. I love that all the schools I am working at are so different..each with a different puzzle to solve. Well, it’s Saturday so I am off to the beach!!!!!!!!!! Adios!

Love,

Miss Ayla Landry

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