It's getting hot in here...

The first thing I have to say, this girl is so not used to hot weather. If there was a way to stay in Spain forever and bring the cool weather from Arcata, I would never come home. Unfortunately, when the average high of the week is around 90 F (like 30 C) and the humidity is around 50%, I sweat just by walking outside. It is not fun. 

Coming back to where I left off in the last post, Friday was my last day in pediatrics. I was a little sad to be leaving the babies and Dr Felix. I had kind of grown attached to them by checking on them everyday and helping with research on their conditions. It truly made me happy to see the doctors actually taking time to research conditions when they were not positive on how to treat. Just as I was getting ready to leave, and after the day of talking with Felix about his family and his honeymoon and California, it warmed my heart to have Felix wish me luck in the rest of my stay and Ask me to come back and visit him when (not if) I am successful and talk to him about where I end up and how I am doing. It was tough, but on to new adventures. 

Friday afternoon, we had lunch with the founder, COO, and European coordinator  of Atlantis Project. They were visiting all the sites to talk to everybody about how things were going and see how their work was paying off. They were all three genuinely nice guys and it was nice knowing the faces behind the program that gave me such an amazing opportunity. 

Saturday was a little all over the place, lots of errand running, meeting the new some of the new people coming in, and the experience of the beginning of Festival Ourense, a huge 10 day fiesta in the city here. Traditional Galician bagpipe music, lots of people, a dance party with a dj and performances prizes, and the knowledge that there were more events to come the rest of the week. There were even kids out later than me (which was cut short due to the fact that everybody in Spain smokes and little asthmatic me couldn't handle it). It was tons of fun. 

Today, we took a bus to the south of Galicia to the city of Lobios where we hiked and climbed and suffered through the heat for the most beautiful views of the valley and one of the largest waterfalls in Galicia. We even got to get into the water. After hiking back, we enjoyed a nice lunch before heading to our next destination. The bus dropped us off just before the Portugal border and we walked about 1-2km to another waterfall to play in the water. Again, super gorgeous. By the time we were done there, we were exhausted and sunburnt and sweaty and ready to hop back on the air conditioned bus to head home. 

This week I am in Internal Medicine and Gynecology. Will have to see what adventures arrise here. 

Traditional Galician bagpipers and drummers. 

Made it to the viewing point for the top of the largest Galician waterfall. It was so gorgeous up there. 

Standing on the border to take a picture of both the Portugal sign and the Galicia sign. 

That's all for now. 

Kallie