First day at the clinic! It has been both an okay day and a bad day. Okay, it wasn't that bad. But, I'm pretty tired. First, Jamie and I were thinking, we can stay at this place. Yes, there are holes in the walls and the beds are hard as rocks, but it is in a nice locations, quiet, big kitchen, on a beautiful rice paddy. This isn't so bad. That was until 2am when we were woken up by roosters and dogs next door for the next fives hours. Blah. That was the one thing neither of us was willing to deal with. So, we are staying at a local guesthouse that is really cute. Only problem is that we have to change rooms three times. It won't be bad though.

As for the clinic, I am starting in the women's health outpatient clinic and Jamie is in the children's outpatient area. I spent my day working with a medic who is doing 3 weeks of each department at the clinic (surgery/trauma, women's health outpt, reproductive health inpt, adults outpt, adults inpt, child inpt, child outpt). We were measuring fundal heights, listening to heartbeats (thru stethescopes, not U/S), doing leopold manuevers to figure out where the babies head was, and going through the woman's history. For lunch, we quickly moved all of our stuff. That was pretty exhausting. I came back and was explaining that HPV caused cervical cancer and not PID and how IUDs do NOT increase risk of infection depening on the style of string, when things went bad. And I almost cried!

This awful white lady from Vienna starting tearing me a new one on how it was so horrible, disrespectful, and rude that I was wearing scrubs. I needed to donate these scrubs and wear my other clothes. When I said I didn't bring that much of other clothes, she told me I should buy some. When I told her I didn't have a ton of money, she said I should go back to the U.S. Then she yelled at me for Bush's taking away reproductive health money and how they haven't seen Obama's money yet. I was like, sorry, I don't agree with it, but Austria isn't donating any money either. It's not like I am a huge fan of the U.S., but at least we are trying. Anyway, I talked to the coordinator at the Thai clinic and she said this woman was crazy an I shouldn't be too upset. So, I'm working on getting over it. I think Jamie and I might just wear the same outfit everyother day so we don't have any more run in's with her.

After that, Jamie and I came back to our new guesthouse and chilled for awhile. We went down to the night market and got some DELICIOUS noodles, pork/chicken, basil for 40 baht (equal to about $1.30). That was for the two of us! 20 baht each! and it was super yummy. We are both exhausted from a long day. Our goal is to stay up to nine. I'm tired already and it is 7:45.