Children

Today we were in another small Mayan village. We saw a record 60+ patients and all of us were exhausted by the end of the day because the conditions were difficult for practicing medicine. However, the memorable part of today had nothing to do with clinical medicine. It did have everything to do with healing though. The village, like most of the others we visited had many children. We always struggled with keeping the children occupied, unsuccessfully and usually ended up managing chaos by the end. Today started very organized and a peek outside showed the reason. Amy had all the children lined up playing games, drawing, singing songs and teaching her Spanish and them English. It was fun to see but made incredible by the fact that Amy still has a very rudimentary grasp of Spanish. The smiles on the childrens faces showed that language cannot hamper happiness and love is a universal language.
By the way, the picture shows only a few of the 60 or so children that were there! :)

Aaron