Well I survived the Savaii mid-service conference. What a glorious week. We arrived at our beach fales Monday afternoon. OUr APCD, the man, the myth, the legend, Fata Esera, allowed us some "free time" before a session that lasted about 10 min. We then committed ourselves to a few cocktails and a bowl of ava of the beach as we watched the sun set of the the south pacific waters.
I should maybe mention here that the point of this mid-service conference is to get together with the group we came to Samoa with, 77, in the middle of our service to discuss various topics pertaining to our service in Samoa. Fata is a pretty laid back guy so most of the conference was pretty laid back, but we did get to share information on various secondary projects we were involved in a the different kinds of diseases we had picked up over the past year. All very enlightening. Afternoons were mostly put aside for personal refelection and un-facilitated group discussion i.e. napping. All in all it was good to hang out with the old gang, even if we are down to 9 at this point.
We arrived back in Apia this afternoon for errands, etc. I have a couple meetings up at the hospital tomorrow. One meeting is with the one and only Samoan eye doctor who can hopefully find a safe home for the eye glasses mom sent over recently. Another meeting is with the head of the hospital in order to get permission for Chief Dad to come back over to Samoa next July and do some surgery and speeches. Should all be very interesting.
School starts on Monday which means 3 weeks of watching the kids weed and clean. No worries, I have lots of books to entertain me!
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