Delivery Systems

A few short notes.

Last night, at about 9:00 p.m., Edelberto, one of our staff, phoned me and asked for help. He needed to get into the office and use the internet. I left my keys hanging in the lock of my door and kept preparing for bed.

When I arrived at the office this morning, at 7:00 a.m., Edel was still at work. Evidently, the line to apply for University online is only open for three days. Consequently, all applications have to be made during that window. Thousands of people are trying to get into the university at the same time. So, Edel was up all night applying for himself and others. He is on the last friend right now. He will head to my house to sleep for a couple of hours and then come back to work.

Carolina, another worker, delivered her first baby yesterday. Ramon, her husband, phoned us the news. Evidently, he will not see the baby or mother until today. The doctor simply came into the waiting room with a list of names and read them aloud along with information of boy or girl. The fathers were simply relegated to waiting. We will find out later today how heavy the baby was and what its name will be. Yesterday was the day of the patron saint St. Miguel. We discussed what the feminine form of Miguel might be but will wait to find out.

Yesterday, Julia told me that she had been watching the Sunday evening mass on television and had noticed that I had lost weight. So, my TV audience is watching and aware. So refreshing to know. Our Canadian intern, Natasha has made many friends in town and is often waving to one or another as we walk or drive through El Centro. However, I told her she still does not have a TV audience ... so there.

We have two student interns here to work on their computer skills. We have them making some forms for us right now. They are having to learn that it is much harder to make forms than it first appears. Their eyes have not been trained to see small mistakes and differences and so their idea of “same” is not like mine. I warned them at the beginning that it would be hard and that my eyes were different than theirs. But, they really didn’t believe me. Sigh. In our culture, we have so many puzzles that train our eyes to see minute differences. As we went over the third attempt they began to realize what I meant. Thank goodness for computers where you can save, correct, copy and so forth. Changes are so much easier. Hopefully, we will have a completed form ready today.

We dug up some grasses that have been growing in the compound. From a start of about ten small slips planted earlier this year, we have about two hundred or so slips ready for planting in Santa Rita. Today they will be planted to mark the corners of the permanent beds we have made. We can always move them later if we find a more profitable plant to put there. This grass has some medicinal value but not sure if it is enough to exploit on any scale. Still, it is beautiful and grows quickly.

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