Our First Week of Eye Exams

This week was our first week of actually 

performing humanitarian eye exams in Fiji.

We were very excited as we began doing exactly what we came here to do.

This was our first day of working at the High School in Suva.
We did the teachers , all 35 of them!

At times we would have 7 or 8 students waiting in our room

This is our new fancy camera that I get to use on each patient.
 It measures their eyes to help determine their perscription

This is the building where we have been seeing our students

Here are some pictures of the beautiful campus we get to
work in as well as go to church here.

This is their typical school bus.
Notice there is no glass in the windows.

On Friday we were asked to give a presentation
to the whole school about the eye, as well as gospel
principles and about ourselves... It started with a
presentation of 'Salu Salu's' to us. They are similar
to an Hawaiin Lae, and are quite beautiful.

This is me presenting my part..

The kids seemed to love the presentation , this is them trying\
to catch marshmallows that Rick was throwing out to them

Rick making his closing remarks

The older boys playing rugby on campus

It was kind of exciting to see something familiar like this, too

After working in the school all day, it''s
nice to take a walk by the ocean

It has been a good first week of working, we saw about 130 students and 35 teachers.  They are wonderful kids and are anxious to hear about what it is like in Canada, most of them enjoy talking to you and getting to know you.  We feel very privileged to be in such a beautiful place doing something of benefit to others.  We continue working this next week at the high school and then we will go to the Primary (or elementary) school.  We are enjoying also seeing some beautiful scenery here in Fiji and will post that next time....