Iparia

Well, I'm sitting in a hostel using the free wireless internet that we found while staying here the last couple days. It's been pretty cool! I'm waiting to hear whether or not we are leaving for Iparia tonight for our next campaign or if we'll be leaving in the morning. Lack of communication with some important people has caused this delay and so, by the looks of it, we'll be leaving sometime tomorrow morning.

I'm actually really excited about this trip. We are leaving by boat for a 16hr. ride down the Ucayali River to Iparia where we will be holding clinic for 4 days. All of us SM's are quite excited about using our newly purchased hammocks on the boat! A medical team from Georgia is joining us for this trip, which will be awesome. We will be working among the Shipibo Indians, providing medical and dental care. The dentist who was with us for the last campaign is now gone and so Brent and I are basically on our own! Kinda scary! We have a Peruvian worker who is a crazy teeth-pulling machine, but the language barrier creates some problems in learning how to pull teeth!