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.

Friday, September 24, 2010

Tortilla Smoke


Walking along the street today in the grey foggy drizzly weather, I smelled smoke. That's actually not an uncommon smell here, even some of the kids in the clinic smell like smoke, from the cooking fires at home. But for some reason I looked up to see what it was. I am not sure why, but this struck me as kind of funny. I thought it deserved a picture. This chimney, or pipe for the tortilla smoke seemed so charming to me in some way. I am sorry the thick black smoke didn't come out well in the photo, with all the wind.
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