We ate breakfast again around 7am and had our devotionals. We are studying Galatians 1 and 5. After breakfast and devotionals, we left the construction crew at the village (with no interpreter!) and began traveling to the next village – Bom Jesus.
This village was very nice – it was clean, the people were very friendly and the homes were painted. It had a sort of appeal to it. The homes will still "shacks" by American standards, but they were much nicer. The village had some grass This village also had a rudimentary system of running water and even a water purifying system. The water purfying system was not cost effective, so they have been unable to take soemthing like that it other villages.
After we toured the village we opened the clinic. We gave out a lot of pain relievers, antacids and vitamins. Everyone looked relatively well here. We did give out some baby aspirin. They only way the boat treats high blood pressure is with baby aspirin because they can not guarantee when they will be back and you don’t want people to have a prescription for something like that and then all of a sudden stop it. We did see way too many young girls with babies – it wasn’t any easier at this village than it was at the last!
We left this village later than we expected. On our way to the next village, I was told a story about a mother who had alot of children. Apparently, she was "done" taking care of her 12 year old daughter - just couldn't handle it anymore, so she found her a man. I don't even need to tell you what happened becasue you already know......
We had wanted to get to the next village in time to have an afternoon clinic, but, it didn’t turn out that we could. We arrived in Caiaue close to dusk, so we got out of the boat and went exploring. This village was pretty nice as well. Apparently it is a growing village because they are making more houses. Some houses here had thatched roofs and others had the common tin. I couldn’t believe it, but one home had a TV! The school building here looked like a school – it had artwork up and around the walls, it had desks and chairs and a dry erase board. Brazil has 3 school sessions per day – morning, afternoon and evening. Everyone was so infatuated with us that we made them late for school. Earl finally ushered them off with promises that we would see them in the morning.
We got back on the boat and ate dinner. Earl also made us come up to the top deck so we could practice our singing!!! Yeah! I love to sing in English, better yet in Portugese! I braved the cold shower....it still is not any easier....
No wildlife today....the pink Amazon dolphin eludes me. I think I am the only one who has not seen it! Seriously!!
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