We made it to Micronesia! These islands are spectacular. Imagine Hawaii rewound 50 years with only 20,000 people living there instead of the 1.2 million. It's really much easier if I just post pictures than even try to do this place justice with words. I'll post some as soon as I can. We arrived on the island of Pompei yesterday after spending a couple of days in Truk Lagoon, an area world famous for WWII wreck diving.
Today we met with the Director of the island hospital to get direction and advice on how to set up some dental clinics. He gave us some good ideas and sent us off to the next city to meet with the Secretary of Health for the Federated States of Micronesia. Who is the person that gives permission to volunteers to do health work in the country. Of course, this guy is on some other island so we got bounced around the office till they sent us to meet with the Secretary of Public Health Education. He recommended we make a visit to an isolated island about 28 miles east of here. Considering his dad came from that island we are hoping that he can expedite the process so we can help the people living out there. The flights go there only once a week so we might change our plans around and spend an entire week there. We still don't know how much the flight costs or exactly when it leaves. We were told that it used to fly on Fridays, which would be tomorrow. Basically, we are dealing with red tape and whether they approve it or not, we'll most likely spend the next week pulling teeth on a small island in Micronesia.
I'll try to update when we know what's going on. Everybody is healthy and in good spirits. Until later, Brett
