once again, no witty title

I am having a very strange week. I'll start with work?

Work is great. We know almost every patient now and know when they are coming in for their next treatment. I feel really connected to a lot of them and it is nice to be so relaxed and joke around with them and their parents. Many of them treat me like a big sister, which is adorable, and I am fairly certain that at least 1 of the teenage boys has a very obvious crush on me. The parents know us now and remember details about my life, so we have real conversations now. It is less like an interview and more like a relaxed conversation among friends. It was a hard week, though, because one of the little girls we love just got the news that her treatment is no longer working and they have decided to stop treatment. She comes in now for plasma and for medicine to make her more confortable, but she doesn't have a lot of time left. We are doing our best to play games with her and keep her smiling, but it is hard for her and for us. We knew this would happen to at least one patient, but it is still hard. Other patients and their parents have started talking more about their prognosis and some of them aren't doing as well as we thought. It has been hard, but it has also been a good week because every day I fall more in love with these kids and their families. The mothers bring us amazing food and drinks and the kids who like to play together with us sit near each other so we can play collective games of UNO or all share the crayons, etc. It is a heartwarming and heartbreaking place all at the same time.

In the social world, we have had a better week. Tuesday we went to Lucha Libre, which is Mexican wrestling. It was a crazy, insane, drunken mess of Mexicans who were very vocal about their support for certain wrestlers. I was even chanted at! The crowd saw me walking and yelled "HIJA DE BUSH" which means "daughter of Bush". Lovely. Wednesday we had a lazy afternoon and then went back to Carmen's Ex-Convent for the movie showing and saw an old Robert Redford and Natalie Wood movie, "This Property Is Condemned". The old man who sells the tickets likes us and talks to us each time we go. Adorable! And the July schedule hasn't come out, so who knows what is playing next week?! We are going anyways, it is always good. And tonight we are taking it easy and going out in search of a good local cafe for a cheap dinner, nothing too exciting. This weekend we are going to MORELIA! so we are saving our pesos.

We leave tomorrow afternoon and won't get back until Sunday evening so I won't post again until then, but look out for pictures on Facebook that I am uploading now!