Women's Ministry: Clothing Drive/Beautify CNMI cleanup

Britnig found playing cards.

Go Pathfinders!=)

Grant picking up our trash bags.

SDA Church Members with Gus and Cinta

Clever John picking up trash from the gutter.

Taking a break

Women's Ministry sorting out clothes for Philippine Typhoon victims.


I can't explain how amazing it feels to be part of a church family that is active and willing to give up a couple of hours of their Sunday to volunteer. I really feel blessed with the church's support and enthusiasm to work together with the rest of the community to help better Saipan. The Women's Ministry led out in two events this weekend. We had a clothing drive for the typhoon victims for the Philippines. The clothes were sorted out this weekend and will be shipped this month. On Sunday, the SDA Church, School, and Dental Clinic joined Beautify CNMI for a roadside cleanup of the Garapan Tourist District. Over 30 of us helped out! We plan to help out the first Sunday of every month.

Britni was picking up cigarette buds along the gutter and didn't realize some idiot had just tossed a fresh burning one out his car window . . . she picked it up and it burned her glove=( But don't worry, she's okay. Humm, disgusting finds today: a dead rat. It was a beautiful sunny day and some of the jams I was listening on my nano ipod while picking up trash: Stir it up (Bob Marley), In a little while (U2), Dynamite (Jamiroquai) . . . Thank you everyone for showing up! You know I love you, right?! =)

CPR Class and Tank Swim Friday

Okay this post is going to be random. Today wasn't my typical Friday. The dental clinic was closed today because we had CPR renewal class. The dental staff spent the whole morning reviewing new updates from the American Red Cross. The American Red Cross has changed the number of compressions to breathing from 15:2 to 30:2. Why? They felt that 15 compressions was more like a "warm up" and that doing more compressions would get the blood flowing more. Also we learned that you don't have to check for a pulse when you find an adult unconscious anymore. You still check for breathing but no pulse. I guess they found that some people misdiagnose if a victim has a pulse or not so they don't end up doing CPR when its needed. They figured it can't hurt to just do CPR. We practiced CPR on the adult and infant models. After class we had pizza for lunch and just hung out.

If you haven't figured out yet, Filipinos like to give nicknames to each other. Usually funny nicknames. My Tagalog speaking coworkers call me all sorts of stuff at work. I use to be sensitive but I have lightened up since then. They call me "veggie filipina" (because i can't speak Tagalog fluently) , "coconut" (brown on the outside white on the inside), "ganda" short for maganda, and the new one now is "cana" short for americana. So just call me "cana"=)

Anywho you'll be happy to know that I finally got my new camara! Its waterproof up to 10 ft, shock proof up to 5 ft . . . pretty much Bev proof=) I decided to test the camara and take it out on a tank swim this afternoon. I met up with Ken and Crystal at Killi beach. Whenever we do tank swim we would swim out to the first tank and then all the way to the second tank and back. i think its about a mile swim. At the second tank we usually would sit and watch the sunset. Last time I swam out with Grant and Missy, we sat on the 2nd tank and sang pirate songs while watching sunset! Only in Saipan. Have a great weekend=)