Day 5- Wednesday

We had to wake up really early, at like 6:00am. Breakfast was at 6:30am and I had eggs and a PB&J. We left for the brigade to El Escarbadero at 7:15am with UNC Medical Brigades. It was about 2 hours away, but we got to drive through the capital of Tegus! Tegus is what the locals call Tegucigalpa. For the morning shift I got to do extractions again! This time I did them with the dentist Adan, which lets you do the most. He literally did nothing while Krista and I took turns with the patients. We did the anesthesia, escalating, and extracting of all of the teeth for the morning shift! Before coming on this trip I had no clue that we would actually get to do everything, I thought we would just be cleaning teeth the whole time, but I was pleasantly surprised! The longest time it took me to get a tooth out was about 15 minutes. It was a tough one, but very rewarding after I was successful. I kept the first tooth I pulled and it is currently sitting on my desk at school. Lunch around 12:30 was PB&J of course. In the afternoon I did the cleaning station. I flossed people's teeth before they went into Charla to learn how to properly brush their teeth and they also got a flouride treatment. It was kind of stressful since I don't speak fluent Spanish because they kept on talking to me and asking me questions and I would have to get Churri to translate for me, so thank god he was there! We had to leave that community at 3:30pm even though there were still patients waiting because that community has a lot of gang problems so we had to get out of there in plenty of time before it got dark. Also, it is dangerous to drive in Honduras at night so we wanted to get back to Rapaco before the sunset. We got back to Rapacco in time to have the meeting and packing before dinner so that was nice. Dinner was at 6:15pm and we ate fried chicken, toaster bread, fries, and salad. I bought plantain chips from the kitchen staff for my Mom and Dad. I also bought a Global Dental Brigades t-shirt. We all just hung out and drank a few beers before going to bed around 11:00pm.