The week in preview.

I made a resolution this morning. After church, I realized that I wasn't challenging myself enough to speak Spanish. So I resolved to speak nothing but Spanish for the next three weeks. Over the past few days, I've realized that short of such a drastic commitment, I lapse into speaking English with the other students here. This afternoon, I watched the World Cup with a couple of them, and they held me to this pledge and spoke mostly Spanish themselves while with me. And I learned probably a dozen words just by watching the game and commenting on it in Spanish.

I only have two days of Spanish class left, Monday and Tuesday. The other afternoons, I hope to shadow with a friend in the birthing room of the maternity hospital here in town. As I may have mentioned, I'll be precepting in the Skin Clinic during the morning hours this week and have heard that the doctors there are very good. I am also scheduled to give a 15-minute presentation to the other students on Tuesday afternoon, and decided to do it on scabies, herpes zoster, tinea, psoriasis, and atopic dermatitis, since I may be seeing some of that this week.

Look for an update mid-week on what's been going on. I'll see if I can catch some video and if the connection permits me to upload it.