Hello my dear family and friends. Here it is October already! It is hard to believe that it has been almost two months since I left my Canadian home, and that I have been in Tabuk for over a month.
Today I am writing from Davidson's Hotel, we have heard that this is a very nice place to come for a good cup of coffee and good food, we are told it also has a swimming pool for those unbearable hot days. It is quite cool today however, so it is just enjoying the coffee shop environment today (which is fantastic!!!!) after Deborah (a soon to be midwife) and I did some grocery shopping.
What I have been doing
First off I must apologize for the lack of photos, I have been terrible at taking pictures and remembering to carry my camera with me, I do promise to get some to you all soon though. We are half way through our language class now. I would like to say that I have been having conversations in Ilocano left, right and centre, but alas not yet, at least not out side of class, Ellora and I have been practicing a little in the market, saying things like "Mano ditoy?" (how much is this) and Agyamanak (thank you) In fact we think it has spread in the market place that two of the white girls are trying to learn Ilocano.
I think I have seen 10 births now since being here. The last birth i was taking out the garbage and got pulled into the birth room to help support the laboring woman for while as she temporally pushed on a birth stool. It was pretty neat to be able to be that close to the action.
I have been busy with doing lots of reading, we are required to read 25 books and do reviews for each by the end of of the two and a half years. So far I have read eight, (one I had read last year and two and a quarter prier to coming). The fact that we do not have assignments untill December provides us a chance to get a head start on the reading. I did not know that I was capable of reading a non novel in a weeks duration.
I am continuing to enjoy the wonderful people here and am getting to know the Filapina staff, they are all wonderful and great teachers.
Some personal improvements: I feel like I am doing better at taking blood pressure and feeling less awkward when I am observing in the birth room, we are also learning about charting during the births which is something that has to be done for every delivery.
New things
I tried a chicken foot for the first time, and you know what.....it tasted like chicken! I know...who would've thought, not so sure is my favorite Philippine cuisine however.
I have discovered sticky rice! Oh my goodness it is soooo good!!! it is like...well....I don't how to discribe it, but they prepare it a bunch of different ways and they make into a desert dish, it is sweet and it can have fruit in it and coconut milk and it is just sooo good, probably my favorite foods thing here, they often have it for Merienda, which are snacks they often have between meals, I really like Meriendas.......
I start my first shift tomorrow morning (Sunday) Not that I will be doing anything very medical mainly just observing, but it will be exciting to have an official shift.
Prayer requests update
If you remember I asked you to pray for a baby that had been transferred to the hospital, the update is, they were able to keep the baby alive for a day or two but the end result is that the baby is no longer on this earth with us, there seemed to be some things wrong with the little thing that no one could do anything about. Please keep the mother and her family in your prayers.
I think the church search has found it's end. Ellora and I went to a church with one of the Filapina midwives and I really liked it; the worship was good, the people were friendly and although the sermon was all on Ilocano it is good for me to practice.
We're just so Fascinating!
So i am going to keep trying to include a story each time, this one isn't really in depth but it is cute. Because of being the only white people around we get a LOT of attention which makes sense, after all if we white people see another white person we will stare at them. I mentioned before that staring is not considered rude so we get a lot eyes on us. This one evening Deborah ad I walked down to the river, to sit and enjoy As we visited, a young boy, probably about 8 carrying what I assume to be maybe a younger sister about 2 or 3 approached us, stopped and stared, they were so beautiful and so cute. This wasn't really uncommon so Deborah and I just kept talking while he slowing came closer and closer, and both of them continued to stare. A few times we stared back and he would grin with this gorgeous smile. Soon he and his little companion sat down about a stones throw from us. As Deborah and I kept talking they would slowly shuffle about 2-4 feet closer to us and then stop and keep staring. They kept doing this until they were only about 4 feet from us. It was as if we were the most fascinating things they had ever seen.
It was so cute, and the were such gorgeous children.
Prayer requests
Language: Boldness in practicing it with others, it is often too easy to speak English out of fear they will not understand my Ilocano.
I will be able to keep reading at a good rate
I will continue to adjust and feel at home
finding the balance of how much money I should spend on food - (we do get a budget for food, but I tend to exceed it due to things like yogurt, grapes and goya - a cheaper version of Nutella-)
if any of you have a question about something or any suggestions as to what I should include in future blog posts, feel free to post them in the comments.
Friday, 3 October 2014
Monday, 8 September 2014
My New Life in Tabuk
Finally! things are beginning to shape into view. I am now in beautiful Tabuk, and am currently in the much appreciated air conditioned (which they refer to as air con here) gas station/coffee shop/restaurant awaiting my much anticipated crepe which I have heard is worthwhile. My roommate, Ellora and I have been here for one week and a day. We immediantly were taken by our amazing view from our balcony of rice Fields that seem to go on forever and the tropical mountains that completely surround us.
Life in Tabuk: Places, People and Birth
Life in Tabuk is completely different than life in Davao where there are malls, massive traffic walking to and fro to the clinic among many other things. Tabuk is much, much, much smaller if I had to describe it to a Canadian city maybe a Filipino version of Vernon but with no big houses, no malls, instead of horses there are water buffaloes (which people will ride to and fro to the rice feilds) and instead of vineyards there are rice fields. I have visited the market several times already as one can get most things there, fruit, vegetables, school folders, flip flops, laundry supplies, meat (but one should really only get meat in the morning when it is still fresh) coconut milk which is made right in front of you which is how I discovered that coconut milk is made from the flesh of the coconut.....yeah I know I am little ignorant. Oh yes and a place where you can get your clothes fixed which I have taken advantage of and the woman was so kind she absolutely refused to take payment and believe me I tried to pay her. The market is a little like an outside Walmart but way more fun to go to, way more interesting and I also like it better than Walmart so maybe I shouldn't even compare.
Our living area is located just above the clinic, so it is very convenient. Ellora and I share a small room and the other day we got to share it with a gecko, I called him Freddie. There a lot of geckos that like to make an appearance in the house in the evenings, I am getting used to them they actually are really cute and they eat the bugs so I am actually becoming rather fond of them. I am slowly adjusting to the large quantity of ants as well, although we are currently in negotiations about what is their space and my sleeping area it has come to as long as I keep food away from bed they will for the most leave me alone. Ellora and I have seen 4 births since being here and it works well being so close; one of the midwives will come and say "she's starting to push" and we come down to witness the process. For one of the recent births i was allowed to locate the fetal heart beat after each contraction that was really cool! not all of the births have been easy to watch the first we saw here was quite intense, and happened in the middle of the night, after as I headed back to bed I wondered if I would be able to handle this, but the next two births were perfect, one mother even named her baby girl Ellora Vienna after us. The last we saw was quite difficult as the baby had to be taken to the hospital to be put on oxygen, please pray for this baby and her mother. This experience made me truly see the importance of good midwifery care and what the vision of the clinic is, if this baby was born with no medical help it would have died. Yesterday it was announced that the clinic had 6 births within 24 hours it was very busy! Ellora and I have also been able to see how the clinic works during the day hours involving things like prenatal patients. We have started to learn how to take vitals under the supervision of the experinced midwives such as taking blood pressure pulse.
On Saturday there was a health seminar on health and nutrition Ellora and I along with three other women were each given two points along with information to teach to several young mothers. This made me nervous but it went very well Ellora and I assisted each other in portraying the lesson by doing a dialogue skit. My two points were the importance of Iodine in the diet before and after pregnancy and good hygiene to keep germs to a minimum.
Many of the Filipina staff midwives live for certain periods of time above the clinic as well. They are all wonderful individuals and I look forward to getting to know them better. We have a wonderful cook who makes our lunches and suppers 5 1/2 days a week, during the weekend everyone takes turns cooking suppers. We (the single foreigners) are each given a set amount of money during the week for breakfast food.
Story time: A Church Search Adventure
Sunday was yesterday for us and Ellora and I began our church search, we have been warned that trying to divide time between church and life at the clinic can be a challenge so we are hoping we can find a church that will fit well into our new life at the clinic. So here is a funny story about our first week finding a church. We were told about that Fundamental Baptist church that has its service in English, so Ellora and I decided to try it. We decided to take a tricy there (a motorbike with a side car attached) it would be more expensive but it should be easier to get there.....so we thought......so we go to the place where you get a tricy and there is only one, the young driver approaches and asks us if we would like his tricy and I explain
"yes we want to go to Fundamental Baptist church in Bulanao [the name of a section in Tabuk]"
He replies
"yes, yes" so we get on his tricy and he promptly turns in the opposite direction than what I was quite certain was where we were supposed to go, but I thought well maybe he has a better way of getting there but I ask him
"you know where the Fundamental Baptist church is?"
"Yes, like the Seventh day Adventist?"
"No I mean the Baptist church, can you take us there?"
"Yes, yes I can take you there"
"okay wonderful"
the next thing we know we drive up to the seventh day Adventist, of course it is close as it is Sunday which he notes
"oh it's closed"
"yes but we want to go the Baptist church"
"oh the baptist church...." you can tell he doesn't know where that is. But fortunately he did not let that detour him and went on to ask about 4 other people, we begin weaving in and out of back roads and both Ellora and I are thinking where are we?
finally we arrive at a building with a sign that reads "Christian Ambassador Baptist Church" (culture note, we were told that a Filipino even if he doesn't know where a place is he won't admit it because he does not want to be negative or disappoint, so I think this was part of the reason we ended up as we did it also could have been just simple miss communication with the whole language thing)
"Here is the baptist church" the driver says and Ellora disembark and pay him. he drives off and we look at each other and say
"this is not the church" I was a little more lost feeling than Ellora, and was thinknig we should call someone but Ellora said
"lets just go here" turned out we were right on time for the service. A woman shook our hands and in we went to a bench in the back, many people visibly turned their head to look at us (but they were nice looks) and who could blame them I think we were the first white people to ever enter the doors. we sang hymns and then the announcements started and I was so nervous they were going to call us up and make us tell our life story or sing or something (we had been told that this is common) but it was fine, we were only asked to introduce ourselves not unlike little Vavenby church. the sermon was fantastic! turned out it was southern Baptist Church which is where Ellora is from. The preacher preached in Tagalog but for our sake also spoke in English. The church was about the same size as Vavenby church and everyone was very friendly and shook our hands. So in the end it was a lot of fun and is on both our lists of possibly returning. The funny thing is we thought we would never find our way back since we didn't really know where we were (don't worry we had a cell phone, there was no danger) but we found another tricy to take us back and it turned we weren't as far away from the clinic as we thought. In the end it was a lot of fun! Anyway that is my story of the week.
The language
So that brings us to today! We had our first Ilocano lesson, it went well but my goodness I sure hope my mouth muscles will learn the new sounds and my memory will be able to remember the meanings. we will a lesson everyday (for five days a week i think) from 9 AM to 11:30ish AM
With that in Mind here are some prayer requests
1. For the little baby who is in the hospital on Oxygene and her mother (I won't say much than that because I don't know how much I should say for privacy sake)
2. That Ellora and will learn this new language and that I will make myself practice it with other people who speak it
3. That I will continue to develop strong relationships with the other clinic workers
4. that both Ellora and I will be able to find a church
5. that I would adjust and feel at home and develop a retinue
6. for strength in my relationship with God; that it will no diminish but grow.
Oh my that is a very long post don't worry I don't think they will all be this long
all my love to you back home!
Life in Tabuk: Places, People and Birth
Life in Tabuk is completely different than life in Davao where there are malls, massive traffic walking to and fro to the clinic among many other things. Tabuk is much, much, much smaller if I had to describe it to a Canadian city maybe a Filipino version of Vernon but with no big houses, no malls, instead of horses there are water buffaloes (which people will ride to and fro to the rice feilds) and instead of vineyards there are rice fields. I have visited the market several times already as one can get most things there, fruit, vegetables, school folders, flip flops, laundry supplies, meat (but one should really only get meat in the morning when it is still fresh) coconut milk which is made right in front of you which is how I discovered that coconut milk is made from the flesh of the coconut.....yeah I know I am little ignorant. Oh yes and a place where you can get your clothes fixed which I have taken advantage of and the woman was so kind she absolutely refused to take payment and believe me I tried to pay her. The market is a little like an outside Walmart but way more fun to go to, way more interesting and I also like it better than Walmart so maybe I shouldn't even compare.
Our living area is located just above the clinic, so it is very convenient. Ellora and I share a small room and the other day we got to share it with a gecko, I called him Freddie. There a lot of geckos that like to make an appearance in the house in the evenings, I am getting used to them they actually are really cute and they eat the bugs so I am actually becoming rather fond of them. I am slowly adjusting to the large quantity of ants as well, although we are currently in negotiations about what is their space and my sleeping area it has come to as long as I keep food away from bed they will for the most leave me alone. Ellora and I have seen 4 births since being here and it works well being so close; one of the midwives will come and say "she's starting to push" and we come down to witness the process. For one of the recent births i was allowed to locate the fetal heart beat after each contraction that was really cool! not all of the births have been easy to watch the first we saw here was quite intense, and happened in the middle of the night, after as I headed back to bed I wondered if I would be able to handle this, but the next two births were perfect, one mother even named her baby girl Ellora Vienna after us. The last we saw was quite difficult as the baby had to be taken to the hospital to be put on oxygen, please pray for this baby and her mother. This experience made me truly see the importance of good midwifery care and what the vision of the clinic is, if this baby was born with no medical help it would have died. Yesterday it was announced that the clinic had 6 births within 24 hours it was very busy! Ellora and I have also been able to see how the clinic works during the day hours involving things like prenatal patients. We have started to learn how to take vitals under the supervision of the experinced midwives such as taking blood pressure pulse.
On Saturday there was a health seminar on health and nutrition Ellora and I along with three other women were each given two points along with information to teach to several young mothers. This made me nervous but it went very well Ellora and I assisted each other in portraying the lesson by doing a dialogue skit. My two points were the importance of Iodine in the diet before and after pregnancy and good hygiene to keep germs to a minimum.
Many of the Filipina staff midwives live for certain periods of time above the clinic as well. They are all wonderful individuals and I look forward to getting to know them better. We have a wonderful cook who makes our lunches and suppers 5 1/2 days a week, during the weekend everyone takes turns cooking suppers. We (the single foreigners) are each given a set amount of money during the week for breakfast food.
Story time: A Church Search Adventure
Sunday was yesterday for us and Ellora and I began our church search, we have been warned that trying to divide time between church and life at the clinic can be a challenge so we are hoping we can find a church that will fit well into our new life at the clinic. So here is a funny story about our first week finding a church. We were told about that Fundamental Baptist church that has its service in English, so Ellora and I decided to try it. We decided to take a tricy there (a motorbike with a side car attached) it would be more expensive but it should be easier to get there.....so we thought......so we go to the place where you get a tricy and there is only one, the young driver approaches and asks us if we would like his tricy and I explain
"yes we want to go to Fundamental Baptist church in Bulanao [the name of a section in Tabuk]"
He replies
"yes, yes" so we get on his tricy and he promptly turns in the opposite direction than what I was quite certain was where we were supposed to go, but I thought well maybe he has a better way of getting there but I ask him
"you know where the Fundamental Baptist church is?"
"Yes, like the Seventh day Adventist?"
"No I mean the Baptist church, can you take us there?"
"Yes, yes I can take you there"
"okay wonderful"
the next thing we know we drive up to the seventh day Adventist, of course it is close as it is Sunday which he notes
"oh it's closed"
"yes but we want to go the Baptist church"
"oh the baptist church...." you can tell he doesn't know where that is. But fortunately he did not let that detour him and went on to ask about 4 other people, we begin weaving in and out of back roads and both Ellora and I are thinking where are we?
finally we arrive at a building with a sign that reads "Christian Ambassador Baptist Church" (culture note, we were told that a Filipino even if he doesn't know where a place is he won't admit it because he does not want to be negative or disappoint, so I think this was part of the reason we ended up as we did it also could have been just simple miss communication with the whole language thing)
"Here is the baptist church" the driver says and Ellora disembark and pay him. he drives off and we look at each other and say
"this is not the church" I was a little more lost feeling than Ellora, and was thinknig we should call someone but Ellora said
"lets just go here" turned out we were right on time for the service. A woman shook our hands and in we went to a bench in the back, many people visibly turned their head to look at us (but they were nice looks) and who could blame them I think we were the first white people to ever enter the doors. we sang hymns and then the announcements started and I was so nervous they were going to call us up and make us tell our life story or sing or something (we had been told that this is common) but it was fine, we were only asked to introduce ourselves not unlike little Vavenby church. the sermon was fantastic! turned out it was southern Baptist Church which is where Ellora is from. The preacher preached in Tagalog but for our sake also spoke in English. The church was about the same size as Vavenby church and everyone was very friendly and shook our hands. So in the end it was a lot of fun and is on both our lists of possibly returning. The funny thing is we thought we would never find our way back since we didn't really know where we were (don't worry we had a cell phone, there was no danger) but we found another tricy to take us back and it turned we weren't as far away from the clinic as we thought. In the end it was a lot of fun! Anyway that is my story of the week.
The language
So that brings us to today! We had our first Ilocano lesson, it went well but my goodness I sure hope my mouth muscles will learn the new sounds and my memory will be able to remember the meanings. we will a lesson everyday (for five days a week i think) from 9 AM to 11:30ish AM
With that in Mind here are some prayer requests
1. For the little baby who is in the hospital on Oxygene and her mother (I won't say much than that because I don't know how much I should say for privacy sake)
2. That Ellora and will learn this new language and that I will make myself practice it with other people who speak it
3. That I will continue to develop strong relationships with the other clinic workers
4. that both Ellora and I will be able to find a church
5. that I would adjust and feel at home and develop a retinue
6. for strength in my relationship with God; that it will no diminish but grow.
Oh my that is a very long post don't worry I don't think they will all be this long
all my love to you back home!
Saturday, 23 August 2014
first week
So far so great! Yesterday we all got back from a great resort weekend as part of our Orientation. I got to swim in turquoise ocean, eat fun food (included a lot of wonderful, wonderful mango things like, mango crepes, mango fruit drink and mango ice cream) wonderful massage which when the money conversion was done was only about 12 dollars Canadian. Played beach Volleyball, Watched fire dancing and Fireworks!
No its not all fun and games, we are going to start our major orientation this week with lessons on culture and things in that nature. After this week the real work begins. The other young woman, Ellora, and I will head up to Tabuk on Sunday the 31st where we will start our two month language lessons. The students that remain in Davao city will also be in language classes and learning the local language (that I do not know how to spell).
In Tabuk, Ellora and I will be learning Ilocano
After the two months of language class we head back down to Davao city and join our other class mates for a one month missions program called Nehemiah Teams http://www.nehemiahteams.com/ we will spend a month among a Tribal village doing different activities in order to share God's love.
After the Nehemiah Team month, us two Tabuk girls, will head back up North to start our Clinical training in December.
A little about life in Davao city
The other young ladies that are here with me are terrific! The only drawback to going to Tabuk is not being able to be among them for the duration of the two and half years. I am not the only homeschooler/come from a big family/farm kid. There are LOTS of us, one young woman is the oldest of 12. So my background type is actually in the Majority which is a little unusual. The result is that many of the conversations involve animals or younger siblings. The food is wonderful, the fruit is out of this world, although there is one fruit called Durion that I am not so sure about. The traffic is something else, I actually find it exiting because I've heard about places with traffic like this but have never actually seen it! But I'm glad I don't have to drive in it.....
Being white results in a lot of attention as white skin is in the tiny minority,
The people who are in service are super helpful and attentive, the clerks will be by your side when you buy your products eager to make sure you find what you are looking for and then they carry your purchase to the counter for you.
well that is a taste of Davao, at least of what i have experienced so far. However I am told that Tabuk is very different.
well I say goodbye for now I hope all of you are well in your part of the world
P.S. Fantastic Church service today!!!! absolutely loved it, it was a guest speaker, the husband of one the students, he talked about the need to tell the lost about Jesus and it was a powerful message.
No its not all fun and games, we are going to start our major orientation this week with lessons on culture and things in that nature. After this week the real work begins. The other young woman, Ellora, and I will head up to Tabuk on Sunday the 31st where we will start our two month language lessons. The students that remain in Davao city will also be in language classes and learning the local language (that I do not know how to spell).
In Tabuk, Ellora and I will be learning Ilocano
After the two months of language class we head back down to Davao city and join our other class mates for a one month missions program called Nehemiah Teams http://www.nehemiahteams.com/ we will spend a month among a Tribal village doing different activities in order to share God's love.
After the Nehemiah Team month, us two Tabuk girls, will head back up North to start our Clinical training in December.
A little about life in Davao city
The other young ladies that are here with me are terrific! The only drawback to going to Tabuk is not being able to be among them for the duration of the two and half years. I am not the only homeschooler/come from a big family/farm kid. There are LOTS of us, one young woman is the oldest of 12. So my background type is actually in the Majority which is a little unusual. The result is that many of the conversations involve animals or younger siblings. The food is wonderful, the fruit is out of this world, although there is one fruit called Durion that I am not so sure about. The traffic is something else, I actually find it exiting because I've heard about places with traffic like this but have never actually seen it! But I'm glad I don't have to drive in it.....
Being white results in a lot of attention as white skin is in the tiny minority,
The people who are in service are super helpful and attentive, the clerks will be by your side when you buy your products eager to make sure you find what you are looking for and then they carry your purchase to the counter for you.
well that is a taste of Davao, at least of what i have experienced so far. However I am told that Tabuk is very different.
well I say goodbye for now I hope all of you are well in your part of the world
P.S. Fantastic Church service today!!!! absolutely loved it, it was a guest speaker, the husband of one the students, he talked about the need to tell the lost about Jesus and it was a powerful message.
Monday, 18 August 2014
Arrival!
Well after a VERY long flight I am here!!! In Davao city! Very exciting, mind boggling, hard believing, a little overwhelming and yes I am on the tired side of things. But fortunately I dozed lots on the plane which I think will work in my favor for dealing with jet leg. (by the way if anyone knows why Jet leg is called jet leg please let me know because it has never made any sense to me). Anyway I did feel a little ill on the plane and although thankfully there was no barf bags involved there was a need for me to trade seats with my neighbor in order to be sitting on a aisle seat in regards to being close to a bathroom....but the air line staff were wonderful and actually come to think of it..... because I wasn't feeling the best I ended up sleeping more, and I am feeling fine now.
Oh yes and it is REALLY hot here as expected so I am thinking my Canadian family and friends could ship me some snow and ice. or I guess you could just pray I climatize quick.
Anyway, so I have about two weeks of orientation here in Davao and then will head up to Tabuk! So I guess just prayers that adjustments go well.
love you all!!!
Oh yes and it is REALLY hot here as expected so I am thinking my Canadian family and friends could ship me some snow and ice. or I guess you could just pray I climatize quick.
Anyway, so I have about two weeks of orientation here in Davao and then will head up to Tabuk! So I guess just prayers that adjustments go well.
love you all!!!
Sunday, 17 August 2014
quick prayer request
okay so here comes my big flight! quick prayer request. I am not feeling all that wonderful, (no worries its nothing major) so please pray that I do not feel sick on the plane. thanks! next time I update I will be in a new country!
Monday, 11 August 2014
A week of travel!
I will give you all my travel plans, but because this is a blog and not a personal note I won't give specific times.....so here we go....
On Wednesday I take the bus from Kamloops to Calgary to spend some precious time with my Grandma and Grandma. Then on the morning of the16th (Saturday) I fly from Calgary to Toronto, Where I take a breath. On the 17th I fly with a fellow Canadian student across the country and to Manila, Philippines, where we switch flights and head to Davao arriving on Tuesday the 19th Philippine time. There are about 15 hours difference from B.C. time. (sigh) so that's the plan! In the end it will be about 10 hours on a bus and 24 hours in the air.
A big prayer request is that I don't get sick. last time I had a long flight I was really ill, and would be so pleased if that was not repeated!
Wednesday, 6 August 2014
Busy Last Week
So the final stages are coming together,it is a busy week with lots of family that I am eager to spend time, visiting, and saying goodbye to dear friends and family. I got my twinrix shot yesterday and have to go into Kamloops for a different shot. There is also the Gospel weekend coming up on Friday of which I am playing a small part in; singing with my fellow worship band members on the last day, of which I am really excited about.
Note to other travelers: Do not wait to the last minute to get shots done. turns out one has to get booster shots after the initial injection, fortunately I can get those in Philippines. For this next shot i am getting on Friday I almost didn't get in as the Clearwater nurse is away until Monday and the Public Health service office is booked all this week, fortunately I was able to get in with Travel connections, a very lovely lady who only charges 10 dollars to give the shot. So I am thanking God for that. Also a side note on that, my arm is still sore from yesterdays shot, the last time I got a shot it was tender for months, am praying that this will not be the case.
Please pray that all the details come together with lots of time to spend with family and friends before the departure. In the next few days I will post my travel itinerary but for now I can tell you that my journey begins on August 13th
Note to other travelers: Do not wait to the last minute to get shots done. turns out one has to get booster shots after the initial injection, fortunately I can get those in Philippines. For this next shot i am getting on Friday I almost didn't get in as the Clearwater nurse is away until Monday and the Public Health service office is booked all this week, fortunately I was able to get in with Travel connections, a very lovely lady who only charges 10 dollars to give the shot. So I am thanking God for that. Also a side note on that, my arm is still sore from yesterdays shot, the last time I got a shot it was tender for months, am praying that this will not be the case.
Please pray that all the details come together with lots of time to spend with family and friends before the departure. In the next few days I will post my travel itinerary but for now I can tell you that my journey begins on August 13th
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