Day 8: Foiled by the Fallen Rain

Yesterday we collected soil samples reflecting only the field we planted in. Our goal today was to take soil samples from the surrounding area to see how we could best serve the Turpin community. God had different plans for us as the road to Turpin was completely blocked by a river that had swelled due to the rainfall we've had in the past few days.

Instead of more soil sampling, we given a unique opportunity. We learned how the recent cholera epidemic was handled and the RN was willing to let some of us shadow Mission Of Hope's mobile medical clinic. She gave us pointers on how to read blood pressure and pulse. Also she told us how they had to hire equally from all the gangs in City Solei to keep them from attacking each other while they were handling the Cholera epidemic.

Later Dr. Dirt, Dr. Steinkamp, Cristina, Andee, Hannah, Devan, Carly, Angela, and I went to see how bad the river was. It had cleared up by the time we got there to a reasonable depth to cross so we went on and saw a pretty good layout of the land. Also we saw a site that looked like it may have been used for some ritual and got to do spider hunting.