Tweet Our boss likes to tell us he is “checking off the boxes” as he makes progress throughout the day, so now we’ve adopted this phrase as well. This marks the end of our 8th week and we’ve just about wrapped up our scope of work, which included working with 9 different departments. Next week, [...]
Browsing Posts in Palau – 2006
Tweet If you haven’t noticed yet, there’s a new header for this site. A few weekends ago we traveled to the northern big island of Babeldoab with our Palauan friend Baptist and his son. Steve started scribbling in the sand with a broken coconut and Baptist Jr. joined in the fun! Any suggestions or comments [...]
Tweet I think the other TCinGC trend, besides “exotic” rain, this summer is snorkeling/diving. I’ve gone on 10 dives now and went snorkeling about 10 times as well. It truely is amazing and the best thing to do out here in Palau. Tourists come from all over the world just to go diving here. We [...]
Tweet This week we finished up the Radiology Patient Encounter/Tracking database. We’re almost done with the modifications on it so that it can be used for the medical wards and the physical therapy departments. The meetings with their department heads have gone well. They’ve been getting excited over what Pivot tables/ Lists can do for [...]
Tweet Palau’s constitution was written 25 years ago on July 9th, so the holiday was observed this past Monday, July 10th. We had the day off from work to go to the fair in Koror, which featured various booths from the 16 different states. Some of the booths had woodcarvings and crafts. Others had some [...]
Tweet Gopal and I have been rather busy at work, so we’re not just going on trips to the rock islands all the time (just on the weekends). It seems like we have 9 development partners instead of 1. We are working with the radiology, physical therapy, lab, pharmacy, the wards, pediatrics, maintenance, blood donor, [...]
Tweet I think all of us in the Pacific are in the middle of the wet season right now (I hear Pittsburgh is as well…). However, rain is a little different here in the tropics. Usually it downpours twice a day for 10 – 20 minutes. The only warning is the distant storm clouds, then [...]
Tweet This past weekend, Gopal and I snorkeled some of the unique spots in Palau. The first was called “Jellyfish Lake”. We swam with an estimated population of over 1 MILLION jellyfish. The jellyfish had no predators in the inland lake (although it is connected via underwater tunnels to the sea), so over time they [...]
Tweet PW is palau’s US postal code, not sure but it is. Last weekend we went to babeldoab, the big island of palau and the second biggest in this part of the world (only guam is bigger). Richard, Dave, Gopal, and I enjoyed following a taiwanese tour group into the museum so we didn’t have [...]
Tweet Dave Rykken, our boss, is a pretty interesting guy so here’s a quick bio of him. He’s a 36 year old expat from minnesota. He has been to 81 different countries and lived in many of them for 6 months at a time, including east africa, brazil, thailand, indonesia, turkey, australia, india, and central [...]
