Day 19

Well this was an interesting day at rotation to say the least. We were actually busy. Maria was pulling us around like we were rag dolls. And you know why we were busy?? Because a translator was in the building. Not one, but two. Oh goody! Well we had a few meetings and everything was going fine, until we walked into one of the patient rooms with the pain management nurse, and our extremely awkward and tall interpreter. Here he was telling us what she was saying; however, me and CC both knew he wasn’t telling us everything she was saying. Ummm hellooo, we understand a little buddy. Annoyed and not really listening to his half assed interpretation, I give a glance at CC. This is when I noticed she has her panic face on. Yepp, the same face she had when she was running from the dog. I don’t see a dog or a butt….what could possibly be going on now?!?!.

She whispers to me, “My strapless bra somehow got unhooked. SOMEHOW got unhooked, HOW does that even happen?!?! Okayyyyy. I really couldn’t help the poor girl considering we were in a patient room with a total of 5 people around. So shes standing there with her arms crossed trying to hold it up while the awkward translator is still talking and I am trying to hold in my laughter.

In the transition to the next patient, she was able to re-hook it so it wouldn’t fall until we got back to the locker room. Well after our mini 10 minute break, we were off to the next meeting. We were in a room letting someone talk to us about social work, while the female translator (we aren’t sure where the man is now) interpreted. Half way through this meeting, we hear a knock at the door. Here is the male translator giving the female a package. She proceeds to tell us that she thinks this will be easier with “head pieces”. EXCUSE ME?? I really don’t think its necessary for these things when there is barely room for our four chairs. Once she takes these head pieces out, CC and I examine them…. They look like they were made in the 80s and they didn’t even go on top of our heads. They were ear pieces the size of olives that hung down to our chins where a larger mechanical, plastic piece laid. What is this nonsense???? Seriously. Then we see it… she busts out an actual microphone. Then she tells the man to continue. We now are facing the man with the female behind us with her voice smoothly whispering in our ears. We cant hold in the laughter. Both of us giggle, trying so hard not to be rude, BUT seriously, WHAT IS THIS?! Not only is the voice we hear absurd, we can still hear the man. This is NOT helpful. Here are CC and I now not paying attention to anything. Great.

After this long, long day. We go home and get ready for a good dinner! This place looked like the cutest little nug, and I have been eyeing it up for 2 weeks (and it was only a block away, so no chance of getting lost!). We get there and were kind of underwhelmed from the get go because it was pretty empty (we should know better). We order a caprese appetizer, pasta (which should be a safe bet) and green beans as a little side. It takes a long time  for the food to come out… and we get our pasta first. First sign. Where is the caprese?? We eat our mediocre pasta, THEN get our caprese that was clearly thawed mozzarella =( and to top it all off, NO green beans. The waiter then comes over and asks if we would need anything else. CC replies, just the green beans. And he brings over the dessert menu. I know he doesn’t speak that much English, but dessert and green beans sound nothing alike. We then politely decline the dessert, and continue to sit there hoping it will come. All we got was the owner asking about our meal. CC then says we are just waiting for our GREEN BEANS. And she asks if we want dessert. We don’t understand at this point. No one cares about the green beans. We leave without them.

At the hotel, we realize we forgot something…no not just something..a big thing. Our voucher for the trip we are taking TOMORROW is still in our locker at the hospital….An hour walk away, 2 if you count the return trip…we are not going.