Tabuk Outreach 1

There haven't been any labors or births yet since I have arrived, but we did an outreach this morning to a village about 30 minutes drive out of Tabuk and had a great time with the people that came out to see us. We did a postpartum health teaching, caring for the mom, the baby etc, and then had merienda (snack) with black very sweet coffee, and sweet bread and then did some checkups. Everyone wanted their blood pressure taken.

This sweet, funny lady (who we guessed through her stories was in her 70's) kept telling us (Lois and I) that we should marry a Filipino man from her area, we laughed and said the problem is that we are both so tall, and so it is hard to find one taller than us! She then agreed that yes, that would be hard :)

The people here speak many different tribal languages depending on where one visits, in this village they mostly spoke a language called Buk-Buk, but most of them could understand and converse well in Illokano (a language I am fluent in from childhood) so that was very fun to sit around and talk with them after the check-ups.