RABIES!!

okay... so the title of this blog may have shocked you and i suppose it should! sta elena is totally overrun with dogs... every dog you can imagine is here, and they´re constantly multiplying. every morning i´ve been running down and back up the road that the house is on, no incident. then this morning, on my way back, i was attacked by a pack of crazy dogs! well by pack i mean 3. but still. one of them gave me a pretty sore bite in the leg :( it hurts! but it´s not too bad. so i get back to the house, and even though it wasn´t bad i started crying when i was telling everyone about it and they probably all thought what is wrong with her?! i think it was just shock or something. then i look in my immunization booklet, and there´s no rabies vaccine listed... hmmm, great. we go to the hospital, and they don´t have a rabies vaccine. then there´s talk of me going to the veterinarian to get the shot! then they give me some injection, i still don´t know what it was, but jorge (who works with the volunteer foundation) told me it is just as good as getting the rabies shot. and that needle was a really big long one, so now my left leg and arm are both pretty much gimp for the day!

but other than that things have been going well! i still can´t speak much spanish, but i´ve been learning lots of words, and writting them all down (definately a visual learner)... yesterday was supposed to be an english lesson, so we show up at the school and it´s pretty chaotic and the kids all have a test that day... no lesson. this afternoon we´re supposedly teaching it, but we shall have to see! things are pretty chaotic and unorganized for sure! this morning i was spending some time with the kids in the hospital. well, mostly i think i was a source of amusement for them, i would try to say that my spanish is really bad, and i was reading these flash cards meant for 5 year olds! it´s new to me. i learned a phrase in spanish (pardon the spelling, for those of you in the know, i certianly am not!) esta manana, un perro mordedura mi pierno! which i think means i got bit this morning. great conversation starter!!

anyways, should get going, i want lunch from this buffet place where you pay by weight. last time it was the equivalent of $2 for a plateful!

hasta luego!
kate