All in the name of research!

Today Dan and Ashley's charge was to start a dental check program in the schools and make records of all the kids dental health. They are then going to use the data collected to try and fundraise for money from big companies like colgate to fund programs for the dentists to start going into the schools and cleaning and filling the teeth for the children. So we started with a local tiny little two room school house - packed to the brim with smiling children (smiling with slighty rotten teeth - but smiling none the less) I got to go to record the data for them. We also handed out Canadian pencils and note pads and crayons to the kids!! It was lots of fun.

After we finished the kids in that school we headed to the beach to do some paddle boarding which BTW is my new favorite sport and I think I need to purchase one of these for the lake. An excellent workout - and tons of fun taboot!!!




The school - leaves much to be desired, but the kids are all happy to be their














My first drink in a bag. So these people drink everything out of little baggies here, we have been laughing at it since we got here. And today the little kids brought us each one. I will tell ya there is a reason why these children have rotten teeth - it was diabetes in a bag!






All the kids after being checked holding up there Canadian pencils.



This was so funny, I was entering this little boys info into the computer and I spelt his name WAY wrong, he got tired of trying to tell me how to correct it so he just got in there himself and corrected it for me!



It was so hot and this was what Ashley looked like after checking the teeth, we are coining this one swaist (sweaty waist), and you thought there was only swass and switts!!!





Paddle boarding


Ashley and I trying to stand together on the paddle board


Success!!


Ashley got cocky and tried to head stand - that's as far as she got btw!!

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