When I arrived in Dulag after the bumping ride and the destroyed landscape, Christy was the first to welcome me with a big smile. Second person was Matt, the male nurse (while writing this, I have Jamie's husband's voice in my head). They were setting up a new birthing room for the patients. I also met Jamie, the Chaplain and Michelle, a midwife. Everybody was very nice and welcoming in the clinic.
I remembered that I had to settle down a bit, traveling for the past 2 months has taken a toll on me. I went to the beach with my friend John. Thinking back, I was very quiet on that day because everything was so different - there are no other words to describe it. Even though destruction is everywhere, people were still smiling which was comforting to me. The Filipinos are a very strong community and I think part of it is because of their faith.
Getting back from the beach, I started prepping for cooking, seeing the nurses work so hard inside and out motivated me to cook. My first dish was fried rice with SPAM. Everybody seems to like my cooking. I hope they did because they were stuck with me for a month, whohahahaha.
I became Jamie's tent-mate. Very grateful that I got to rest with her :) It was fun! She was so nurturing and is a mother of a lot of children- I lost count.
Our medical clinic was inside of an elementary classroom and we were living in tents. We had three non functional bathrooms that had to be flushed manually with a bucket of water. Let me tell ya, you need some skills to flush down number 2 - I still didn't acquire that skills and I don't think I will ever!
My second day in Dulag, I went to the market with Michelle, Jamie and Tano (he is our ambulance driver and go-to person for anything)
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| Where our clinic was located temporary |
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| Destruction everywhere |
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| Kid smiling and having fun with a bucket of water and rain |
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| We found fresh chicken at the market!!!!! |
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| Cemetery at the church |
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