Work, Church, School, Play......

The new elementary school being completed this summer.
This is taken from our street 3 houses down from our house.

Morning assembly at Mt. Carmel, the Catholic Elementary

where Shell teaches. She often subs many different grades, but

usually works as a teacher's assistant to a Kindergarten class.

Shell's kindergartners. She loves them, but worries too as this and all local schools here are way behind the states. I guess if they're all equally behind and never move off island....

James clinic/office. It's small, but gets the job done.

They finally got the A/C working again after 2 months,

so that makes the day go a little smoother...and the patients a little happier.

Same room, different angle.

Clinic from the outside. The branch clinic is home to

about 3 family physicians, 1 optometrist, a small lab,

x-ray room, pharmacy, and immunizations clinic.

The best part.....it's half mile from our house.

Talisay Branch. This is a beautiful building. It's great

except during a hard rainstorm...it's so loud on the metal

roof you can't hear the sacrament talks......then again.....

Talisay chapel again...it sits up on a hill, there's

a great ocean view and mountain view, and is made up of

several detached small buildings with open hallways inbetween.

Jotrdan's science experiment: He collected water samples from 1)ocean

2) the bay, and 3) an inlet/pond area. We then baked the water jars for

hours and hours until it evaporated, and we measured the salt in each

jar by comparing their weight to the weight of an empty jar.

The inlet water was dirty (center), but you can see the salt in each jar.

Mccool elementary. This was old barracks converted to a school. We're excited for

the new school which is alot nicer....and will be a 30 second walk from home, whereas this is about a 5 minute drive off base, actually just down the street from our church building.

James was able to take the kids to school the other day cause he spent the day there

screening the kids. He's been there several times with a few eye clinic corpsmen seen here, but today was Kindergarten day! About 100 5 year old's is enough for 1 day...but it was fun

But there's always time for play! The kids wanted to make a super-bed for the cats to sleep in.

Surprisingly they loved it as you can see....I guess heat doesn't bother a guam cat!