About 6 months ago I heard that the church was looking for volunteers aboard a US Navy hospital ship in the South China Sea. Specifically they wanted a licensed environmental health scientist so I eagerly signed up.

Because I couldn't get the whole summer off from work I chose to go on just one leg of the trip--embark in Singapore, travel down the Indonesian Archipelago then north to a remote group of islands near Papua New Guinea, and finally south to Darwin, Australia and then home.

I will be working with a team looking at the water supplies in villages and testing drinking water, we will also teach people about basic sanitation, vector control and food safety.

After six months of anticipation I am just about ready to go.

Hope you enjoy the blog!

Thursday, June 24, 2010

I just got my companion assignment for the trip. However much I dislike the idea of being assigned a compulsory friend, it is comforting to know that someone has to be my friend.
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