Health and Wellness Classes

We have been enjoying our classes this week on Health and Wellness.
Yesterday was great we learned about healthy living and eating, and today about diseases, worms, {we can identify many of them now along with signs and symptoms}, fevers and many other illness. All of the information that we are getting this week will help us when we are on the field and someone gets sick or hurt. Today we were able to get some hands on training on checking blood pressure, checking the ears and yes...giving a shot! I was not going to give a shot, the thought of it was just terrible but if you check out the pictures and videos below you will see that both Bill and I took part of today's activities.

We'd like to introduce you to our "GIRL"!

This is our 2002 Nissan Xterra 4x4! She has been a great vehicle for us, one that we have come to rely on and trust to get us from here to there. Our hope was that she would work perfectly for us especially since we probably will only have her another year. Well...she is sick...she hasn't been feeling well for awhile now but there were things we could do that we thought would remedy her illness. While we were in New York over break we had a friend look at it and the diagnosis was not good. The results came back that she is in need of a new head gasket. UGH! Poor girl, she's been looking so good and cheerful lately too. But the facts are the facts and she will be going in for about a week. We aren't sure the day but it will be soon. We have stocked up on food so if it takes a week we'll be fine without her. What's a week after you've gone through Jungle Camp! Bill is planning on performing the "surgery" with assistance from our on staff chief "car surgeon" Ernest. Please pray for the whole thing...Bill, that he'll have a steady hand, Ernest that he will have patience with Bill, and the biggie...for the financial cost of it all. We have heard it's the most expensive thing to have to fix.
On a good note...We had a great Christmas Break. We came back totally ready for our final semester, which started today. We have a week long class on Health and Wellness. We loved it today and tomorrow we get to learn how to give each other shots...not sure how this will go, I thought I'd video this!