Measles Vaccination Campaign

So what's happening in Vanuatu now? We're trying to eradicate measles. That's probably a good idea since last month at least 4 kids in my village got it. They decided in all of Vanuatu they'd vaccinate every child ages 1-5. Then they decided to have Peace Corps Volunteers go and check on the vaccinations to see if every single child in the country get vaccinated. I guess I'm lucky, since I think in total on Futuna, there were less than 70 kids or something vaccinated, but on some of the other islands there's a lot more. Anyway, I had to walk around the island and check to see if the kids got vaccinated or not by the health workers here on the island. Well I found out that lots of kids hadn't been vaccinated because the day of the vaccinations the Mamas were busy with a church workshop. I wrote a note to the health worker who lives in a different village and luckily he returned to vaccinate all the kids. This past weekend I walked around the island to check on the other villages as well and it looks like everyone's been vaccinated so hopefully no more measles. Also while I was on the other side I bought a chicken for $5 and we should be killing it and cooking it up tomorrow for my birthday. That's about it on the what's new front here. We're in our last week of school for this term and on Thursday we are having an Open Day/ Music Day for the parents to come to school and receive the report cards and then for the students to perform some songs and dances. Should be exciting.