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!

Sunday, July 11, 2010

We are finally making our first stop tomorrow! I am going to be presenting a lesson on the bio-accumulation of mercury in fish. (because a relatively large amount of mercury is released into the atmosphere here from small, artisan gold mines, they have a problem with mercury poisoning.)

This will be my last post as it is just too frustrating trying to log on. I will post a bunch of pictures and stories when I get home. (email me if you like, I may be able to check it a few more times.)

Meg :)
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  1. Kendal FergusonJuly 31, 2010 at 7:36 PM

    This is a late comment, but I just finished a somewhat less exotic 2-wk trip to Oregon. I am curious to learn how "open" people are to your lessons. Hopefully they learn some things that will help their families tremendously but I'm wondering if they are genuinely interested or appear set in their ways.

    Please post lots of photos and trip description, warts and all. I still need to decide if I'm jealous of this trip.

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