Tues 9 Feb

This morning was the ceremony at the church to welcome all the students back to the university. The bishop came and it was a big deal. The church service was wonderful and there was a band made up of students who played Bolivian music and it was amazing. Later, I had a painful day at work. My job was to use the heavy duty sanding machine to sand down small pieces of wood for the beds. Everything was going fine until my hand slipped and flew into the sander. It took only a second and I had sanded away a good part of the tops of my middle and ring fingers. It started bleeding and I was in shock so I stood there until I realized what had happened. After getting a grip on what just happened, I went to the Nurse Post and got bandaged up. The rest of the day I worked on other projects with my good hand. Later I had dinner, and then went to bed.