Day 9 – Clinical rotation at Programa Medicia Clinica.

I almost cannot believe that we only have one day left of the program and then I will be coming home on Saturday!! WOW this has been quite the experience!! When I first started here I knew very very little Spanish and now I can order food in a restaurant, talk to the venders on the street, purchase items and speak to patients in health care setting. I am still far from fluency, but I wasn’t expecting that after only 4 weeks. Understanding what people are saying to me is still quite difficult, but that will come along in time. I am eager to get into a Spanish course when I get back so that I can continue learning, in hope for fluency at some point. I have had wonderful teachers who have really gone out of their way to help in our learning process. One would come in early, so that we could get tutoring for the first 2 weeks and we have had another teacher for this past week coming with us during clinical to help us with our grammar and conversational medical Spanish.

While out today on our way from one clinic to another, due to some miscommunication between our school and the clinics, I saw some creative cultural art work displayed on the walls along the roadway. Here are just a few pictures that I captured.

A wall train painting

A mural

Another portion of the mural.

This mural spanned a large stretch of the roadway.

A beautiful fountain in the center of a round a bout.

We saw the train station for the Tequila Express
The train takes you to the city of Tequila.

One thing that I always have to remember with nursing is – Stand your ground 

Favorite Spanish sentence of the day – Haces ejercicio o algun deporte? – Cada cuando? Do you exercise or play sports? – How often?