Two weeks went by fast. Too fast. And by the time it was left to leave, Belize had felt like home already for too long. And all the girls and Oswaldo, and Ruben and Lorena and Dr.T, everyone has truly become a family that I am going to miss dearly. I didn’t want to leave […]
Day 9: Dairy Cattle, AI, Xunantunich, Bat Trapping, Emergency C-Section, and Thirsty Thursday
1/4/18 Day 9 Woke up at 3:30 in the morning. Okay jokes, 3:50 I finally dragged my butt up and clothed myself lol. We drove to a Mennonite village, but like the bougie ones, and saw a dairy farm. It was still dark when we got there, I think all of us passed out in […]
Day 8: Pigs, Sheep, and Iguanas!
1/3/18 Day 8 Woke up and had pancakes! We then went to work with pigs and sheep! We were greeted by cute pups and a herd of sheep. Ruben and Zamir and Dr. T were REALLY gearing up with the white suits and plastic footies lol, and we were all kinda shook for what was […]
Spay and Neuter Clinic in Arenal :)
1/2/18 Day 7 This day was AMAZING. We woke up and had breakfast and headed straight to Arenal, a small village right next to the Guatemala border. When we rolled up, people were already there with their dogs waiting! It made me feel warm to see that for some reason. We went inside and helped […]
New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day in Belize!
12/31/17 Day 5 We went to the clinic in the morning and we did suture practicing on chicken cutlets. Then we went in groups to do surgery’s. We did a spay on a big pup and then sutured her up. It was so so cool. We held the uterus and cut it??!?!? It was weird […]
Day 4: my first surgery?!?!!?!
12/30/17 day 4 After vaccinating a whole herd of cows yesterday, we went to a super cool pretty horse farm/ resort place today. Am old bearded white man greeted us in his paradise. We did physical exams on all of his horses. We were essentially just playing around with them, but like playing doctor, but […]