In Villaflor, she says, she had no thought of being a nurse. "It was hard to be in school, and I only had one grade," she says. Her village had no medical facilities and, for a long time, no electricity. "My little sister broke her arm, and my father had to carry her for three hours and get a ride on a truck for two more hours to find a hospital. When I came here and thought what I wanted to do, I was at the vocational school, and I saw the program and really liked it."