Introduction

This blog will follow me through my travels and experiences working at a clinic in Quetzaltenango (Xela), Guatemala. The clinic sees primarily indigenous (Mayan) patients in a rural mountain community. More than half of the patients are children, and the clinic is expanding its population even more to include more adults. Much of my struggles actually come from the rather universal theme of being a new healthcare provider, in my case, a new nurse practitioner. I'll also try to post plenty of travel stories to keep people entertained, and share some more cheerful stories. I apologize if there's an overkill of clinic stories. Sometimes it helps to tell the stories, even if only for my own sake.

Sunday, September 26, 2010

Food

Here are some of the foods we at yesterday--tortilla soup and sopes. There are a lot of similarities between Mexican and Guatemalan food, and many "Mexican" foods are common here.





I have been trying to be careful with eating fresh fruits and veggies here for a couple of weeks. But when I saw beautiful strawberries and blackberries (at 25cents/lb!) in the market, I all of the sudden didn’t want to wait those couple of weeks. I decided to buy them anyway, and cook them. There is a little Mennonite bakery here where they sell fresh granola and yogurt, among other things. Xela is pretty well known for its Spanish schools, and there are at least 2 dozen, if not more language schools in town. This, combined with all of the volunteer/non-profit work here means there are a lot of foreigners in town. I would classify the resources here for foreigners as being somewhere between amazing, and over-the-top.


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