its afternoon, we just finished eating, it's raining hard outside. the cat, Alex and I are all laying in bed. Alex did her first three health surveys this morning, she went to a village and ask questions about water sources and toilets and diet and how much people know about health, things like that I think. She's hoping to survey 10% of the local population, which comes to about 60 surveys. three surveys takes four hours, so Alex has about 80 hours of work on her hands, and some of the villages are a bit of a walk, so a bit more I'm guessing.
I head to the airport tomorrow to pick up some medical supplies the nurse is putting on the plane, it's a bit of a production - a logistical nightmare, just to get something from Vila.
our missing chinese bag is officially lost, so Alex's boss is going to begin negotiations with the ship's owner for full reimbursement - we lost a number of things, including a lot of books we carried from america, cooking pots, food, lanterns, snorkeling gear, medical supplies and clothes we carried from america. We're thinking about $600US worth of things, so we'll see how the reimbursement talks go...
that's our news
We wish we would have brought and CD-ROM Encyclopedia, the locals ask us questions that we can't answer well, but could easily find in an encyclopedia: Like - the southern lights, and the space station and how many people live in America and what strip mining looks like and how do you pollinate vanilla beans and what flying foxes eat and are aboriginal people Melanesians.
They also ask us questions like do the chinese put humans inside canned pork - alex told them yes.
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