orientation begins...

After managing to fit everything into our bags...we called a cab and headed to the South Terminal Vancouver airport. Unfortunately for us we seemed to have summoned the slowest and least able to stay in his own lane cab driver ever...not only that but we also got lost. One hour fifteen later...we arrived. We flew Pacific Coastal Airlines to Comox - pretty small aircraft...small enough for us to figure out that one of the interns had missed the flight. We picked out the interns pretty quickly....not too inconspicuous. In half an hour we experienced more service than Air Canada provided from Toronto to Vancouver!

We settled into the Shantz Haus, the hostel we've taken over (11 interns/volunteers). Headed to Uganda with us are...Joel, Graham, Tyler, Tanessa, Ryan, John, Melanie, Katie, Valdean, Richard, Jenny, Laura. First impressions?? good. Should be a good time...well actually, everyone is going to different areas so we won't see much of each other...more on that later.

Orientation: Day 1
sweet mother. Following 12 hours of sitting (most of which was interesting and informative because the interns from last year were present and sharing of their experiences, a travel nurse also talked with us...shedding light on interesting diseases...most of which we hopefully had already been vaccinated against), we were ready for a bit of a walk...

bryony is taking a bit of a writing break to take her dukoral (oral cholera vaccine). so gross. 2 doses, which involve drinking something that is supposed to taste like rasberries.. but in reality tastes more like.... ok. bryony's back now (looking a bit green..).


day 2.
mefloquin with breakfast (let the delusions begin..).
church.
hiking Mt. Washington.
eating delicious food.

the end.





us at the top.

Joel, Bry, Em, Ty

(and yes, we actually climbed - the chair lift wasn't working)