Last week I explained the living arrangements of the Lawan Lawan team and Casiklan team. This week I bring to you the lifestyles of Subiat team and Tinucoran team, our all girl teams. Enjoy.
Both Teams are across the river from MJ, which is where our "base camp" is setup. So to get across the river we take these little paddleboats. It's a nice change from all the rough riding we have become so use to from the bikes, jeepneys and Hubble hubbles.
Unfortunately that doesn't last long and the next transportation is a Hubble 2x. To get to Tinucoran from the river lodge you would take a right when the road splits, and for Subiat you take a left. The travels for both teams are the same. It just depends on the direction you go.
Tinucoran Team:
Team leader- Kayla
Heather Shelby
Lissa Hailey
Angela Amanda
Translators: Translators:
Belle Jemil
Arlin Cheryl "Bing"
The Tinucoran team is blessed to be living in a host home.
The family has their own water filter in their kitchen. So the team has the privilege to use their filter. Since the team is in the home they have a CR (comfort room, meaning bathroom) in the house, but the CR has no light and the water in the house shuts off at 7:30 every night. So before that time the family and team are sure to fill their cans with water for anyone needing to use the CR.
Most of the team sleeps on their sleeping pads in the living room under their mosquito nets while Kayla has her hammock tied up under the porch.
In the back of the house they have a small area for cooking on an open fire. They have amazingly figured out a way to make pancakes on an open fire. They may not look as pretty but they tasted great!
The Subiat team is smack dab in the middle of the village! The team stays in the clinic, which is the smallest clinic of the teams. The porch of the clinic is as big as the clinic. Half of the girls stay in hammocks on the porch while the other half stays in the room on their pads.
For drinking water they fill their container at the villages filter across the road. Since it is so heavy the team has used their American girl charm to get a man from the village to bring it back to the clinic for them, but while me and the supervisors were their they just got us to.
They have a small CR that is in the clinic with running water. So they can bathe in the CR instead of going to the water source and bathing in public.
This team is extremely organized! The team has a bathing schedule, where they have their turn to use the CR to in the morning. The team has a basic schedule written and posted on the door of the clinic. Since the team is all girls they have taken that advantage and "girlied" up the clinic with little things around the Clinic.
I hope you all have enjoyed getting a look into the lives of teams. Please continue to keep these teams in your prayers. Pray for safe travel this week as we go on our short vacation.