Tuesday 29 May - New Time Zone

Had to turn the clocks back last night with moving over a time zone. Woke up at 4:30 and decided I may as well get up and do my hair before the crowd of 100 plus in the bathroom. Got dressed and came and sat in the lounge for 30 minutes before going to breakfast.

Started taking the malaria meds so we will see how that goes. Have to take with food so just pocketed the pill and had it with breakfast. The food is actually pretty good. Hot breakfast like pancakes, eggs cooked to order, sausage and oatmeal cereal then you can choose from fruit, breads, yogurt, milk and hot drinks. They told us if we are going to have hot chocolate to put it in the juice glass so people do not think we are drinking coffee.

Reported as usual at 7:30 but really show up at 7:15. Opened emails and saw Shaila had sent me the whole army manual about setting up a field dark room processing unit. It was just what I needed. 

I have volunteered to clean the 3 bathrooms very day as I feel this is something I know how to do. We spent the morning helping the men in the department make fishing poles. Very interesting way to spend the time. 

After lunch I spent 1 1/2 hours revamped the shopping list to look for supplies to set up this darkroom on one of the islands we will be getting to in 5 days. Was frustrated as I typed it then tried to cut and paste it into an email to the departments and it kept replacing what I had typed in the first out line. I had to retype and revamp the whole thing 2 times, with it disappearing into nowhere both times. I have no idea if I can retrieve it in the notes program. After doing it a third time I finally sent a copy to the home email and then copied and pasted it from there. Very frustrating as I almost missed dinner. 

They seem to think it will help them look and see what we have to work with HM2 Bollinger leaves in the morning to helicopter out to see what they really have on hand and take pictures. They will be doing the same at the hospital.  I was supposed to go on to shore the second day in to screen patients before being boated to the ship but they want me to be in the department to answer questions and help figure what they has and what they might need. I guess is am the person who gets this OLD stuff with hand developing of films. There is a hint I may get to go to shore when we come back after doing the island circle. 

The Jarstads (our group leaders) gave us all armor of god coins and they announced it was my birthday tomorrow. Will be helping in the dish room tomorrow night for 4 plus hours. Plenty hot - it should be fun. We get to set back our clocks 1 hour again so I guess I will be waking up at 3:30 now.