Santiago Stories


3 weeks down, 1 to go

Hi Everyone! Three weeks have passed and I don't really know where the time went. We were just talking about how in a week from now we will back in the classroom. This will definitely be a crazy thing since we haven't been in the classroom for the last nine months! Anyways, last week finished off smoothly in the clinics. We have been treating a...


Third week slump

Hi everyone! We are into the middle of the third week and everyone is fighting sickness/tiredness. Luckily mine is only the fatigue part and not the sickness. However, clinic has been extremely rough as no one seems to have any energy. Despite this minor mishap, we are making it through. The nice part is that we are now seeing some patients o...


End of week 2

Hi Everyone, I know it has been a while since I've written, but it just means we have been really busy lately. Last week finished in a rush since we were trying to make up for the Wednesday we missed due to the strikes. The mornings in the clinic have been great. We have been working with a lot of spinal cord injuries and stroke patients, because th...


A day off!

Hola Todos! Time for a mid week update. I actually have some time to write today because work was canceled for all of us today. As I mentioned in earlier writings, it is close to election time here. Apparently, today is the start of a large two day national strike/protest where people went around throwing tons of stuff in the roads,building fires ...