Trip: Belize
There are [36] stories from my trip: Belize
BELIZE | Friday, 7 Sep 2007 | Views [665] | Comments [1]
It’s the third day at the clinic with no doctors. Felix has passed and traveled north to Mexico, leaving us with little more than mild flooding. Patients wait on the front porch for care, with no one here to provide it. Nurse Salaam can only treat minor ... Read more >
Tags: Work
BELIZE | Thursday, 30 Aug 2007 | Views [464] | Comments [1]
It’s been slow at the clinic this week. The ambulance that usually drives the staff
out for Mobile clinics is being used in town – so, we stay in San Antonio. I
have made 6 handouts on various diseases and health concern that plague the
villagers ... Read more >
Tags: Random
BELIZE | Saturday, 25 Aug 2007 | Photo Gallery
Swim day in Belmopan
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BELIZE | Saturday, 25 Aug 2007 | Photo Gallery
Mobile Clinic
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BELIZE | Saturday, 25 Aug 2007 | Photo Gallery
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BELIZE | Saturday, 25 Aug 2007 | Photo Gallery
Maya Ruins
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BELIZE | Thursday, 23 Aug 2007 | Views [397] | Comments [1]
I survived hurricane Dean! It wasn’t as traumatic as I thought it would be. The village where I live, San Antonio, is all on high ground and inland. There was no rain or wind; it’s been sunny the past three days. However, northern Belize got hit hard, ... Read more >
Tags: The Great Outdoors
BELIZE | Saturday, 11 Aug 2007 | Views [448] | Comments [1]
It’s a 15 minute walk from my new home in San Antonio to the clinic - all on the hilly road that winds through the Belizean jungle. The clinic is small, a pre-fab home from Belize City that host 12 staff members, doctor, nurses, pharmacist, health workers ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
BELIZE | Saturday, 11 Aug 2007 | Photo Gallery
Ms. WeWe's
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BELIZE | Thursday, 2 Aug 2007 | Views [516]
When in a new place, its customs to try the local foods and expeirce what the cultre has to offer. This is well and good- excpet when you eat bad potato salad, get food poisening and have to vist the local hospital. In Belmopan the local BBQ pit was ... Read more >
Tags: Doctors, hospitals & health
BELIZE | Thursday, 2 Aug 2007 | Views [428]
The express bus from Belize City will get you into Belmopan in a hour and 15 minutes. The cost for 5 women with over 400lbs of luggage would be around $60USD, a taxi for the same amount of cargo and people is $120USD.. more expensive but makes for a ... Read more >
Tags: Random
BELIZE | Saturday, 28 Jul 2007 | Photo Gallery
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BELIZE | Friday, 27 Jul 2007 | Views [541] | Comments [1]
Working at Menzies Children’s Home was so rewarding. The children there all have experience with abuse, neglect and sexual assault. There were so many families, groups of brothers and sisters, living at the home together waiting for the cases to go ... Read more >
Tags: Work
BELIZE | Tuesday, 24 Jul 2007 | Views [446] | Comments [1]
Early Sunday morning we visited Xunantunich, the housing area for royalty and the commerce area. Quite the climb, the view from the top allowed you to see across to Guatemala. After, we drove north to St. Ignacio to go cave tubing. A 20 minute walk ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
BELIZE | Saturday, 21 Jul 2007 | Views [1626]
I've been in Belize for almost a week! It seems so much longer. I haven't had too much of a culture shock. Its hot - but it was hot back home. The food is similar, the lanuage is english and there is Dish TV. How bad can it be if I can watch Man vs. ... Read more >
Tags: Relaxation
BELIZE | Sunday, 15 Jul 2007 | Views [569] | Comments [1]
I leave in exactly 27 hours for Central America. I'm not nervous- although I feel I should be. Six months in Southern Belize working in remote villages that have no running water, electricity and are in short supply and high demand of community aid ... Read more >
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