Royal Chateau Hotel San Juan del Sur

So... I thought I was in the clear... been down here for over 2 weeks and have only had a mild case of traveler's diarhehaa - I thought for sure I was used to the food by now and that my stomach could handle anything. Boy was I wrong. As good as the food was last night, it did not settle well with my stomach. Around about 11:00 I started feeling sick to my stomach... I ended up throwing up a couple of times, and then forced myself just to go to sleep. When I woke up this morning, I still felt...

Today was fun and relaxing!

I slept until I couldn't sleep any longer, which was only until about 9:30... and we weren't meeting for brunch until 10:30... so I decided to go explore San Juan del Sur on foot. Caitlin and I went for a walk/run... it was nice, except for the air is not the cleanest. One thing is for sure... I cannot wait to get home and take a deep breath of fresh air.

We then went to brunch at this really cute coffee bar place. According to all of the coffee love...

To start off… last night was a lot of fun! We went to a bar/club thing on the beach where lots of people were. The partying itself wasn't necessarily different – but the people sure were! It was crazy! There were people from absolutely everywhere, all either here to surf, or just touring along the coast of Central America. I met guys from Ireland, who didn’t surf but were just here (have no idea why they chose Nicaragua)? Haha There were people from Israel, Australia, Califo...

We all woke up, went to breakfast, and then headed to the clinic thinking we were going to have a busy work day; however, the "Nica way" once again prevailed. The lady that was supposed to be organizing our projects apparently had nothing for us to do? But we weren't the only people that we in the situation... there was a group of about 10 2nd year med students who have been down here for a week now, and have not done one thing - talk about a frustrated group.
But our professor said today ...

We woke up this morning to a gloomy and rainy day. My teacher said he expected a lot more of our days to be like this – but they haven't been. I feel so fortunate to have had such great weather on this trip!

Last night we met with a student from Yale who is down here for 8 weeks studying parasites and other infections. He has been down here for 2 weeks and has been working with a water program in hopes to provide clean water for Nicaraguans. Today he had organized a meeting/gathe...