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                    <title>Another Story by Dr. SueLin Hilbert</title>
                    <description>Getting a good nights sleep in the bush is always a tricky thing.  Depending on ones level of jetlag adjusting to an early bedtime can be difficult.  When there isnt much in the way of electricity after the sun goes down and your day begins at sunrise the prospect of staying up past 7pm seems like a tremendous feat.  Once you do get to bed it can be difficult finding the proper body p</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Vanuatu/Santo/Luganville/blog-637667.html</link>
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                    <title>Good or bad news first</title>
                    <description>Well everyoneits been a month since the last entry and a great deal has taken place. Of greater significance however is what has NOT taken place. Please try to remember folks this is Vanuatu and we firstworlders need to be able to roll with the punches. If youre not interested in the dreary prose heres the short versionThe construction of the Sele Clinic is being put on hold at </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Vanuatu/Santo/Luganville/blog-636541.html</link>
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                    <title>Last Dance with Project MARC</title>
                    <description>Hello again everyone Today I find myself back in Port Vila in the hospitality of good friends and familiar faces. Project MARC39s 2011 season will officially kick off in a couple weeks but Dr. Hilbert and I are here early for prep and planning of our August expedition. Keep up with us here for further updates on our progress with the expeditions or follow us on Twitter for blurbs from the bus</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Vanuatu/Efate/Port-Vila/blog-627782.html</link>
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                    <title>A Story by Dr. Georgina Osborne</title>
                    <description>I joined Project MARC in Vanuatu for the first time in August 2010 on the recommendation of a good friend and previous volunteer although I had travelled a great deal in the past I had no idea of what to expect or of the truly unique experiences I would have there with the NiVanuatu people.  I was taking time out of British doctoring ready to get away from the tickboxing and medical bureaucra</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Vanuatu/Santo/blog-566312.html</link>
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                    <title>End of year report apologies and confessions.</title>
                    <description>The beginning of December turned into a time of contemplative reevaluation for our Sele Clinic Project and also a time of frenzied rush to get goods to where they needed to be. On the 15th I had to leave Espiritu Santo to take care of business in Port Vila for the end of our year in Vanuatu. The clinic was not completed nor did it look like it could be until Project MARC returns to finish the </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Vanuatu/Santo/blog-555307.html</link>
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                    <title>And now for the rest of the stuff....</title>
                    <description>So moving water to the site turned into a bit of a tough time. But while I was worrying about the water in the stream and the lack of water in the tank what I should have been REALLY concerned with was water that would eventually come from the sky.  Its finally arrived and in the words of my brother Devin WootNow you need to understand that while working here Ive always got a few </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Vanuatu/Santo/blog-552258.html</link>
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                    <title>The week about water</title>
                    <description>Third week of November. This was to be the week of water. And what a week its turned into. As some of you may know there is no running water at the project site and the nearest water source is several hundred meters from where were working theres also some serious hills and cliffs incorporated into that distance.  We have already moved a 6000liter water tank to the site so if we can j</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Vanuatu/Santo/blog-548934.html</link>
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                    <title>Another Clinic Part 2</title>
                    <description>After weeks of wheeling and dealing I was hoping to begin the movement of supplies in the first week of November. One of the many arrangements had been for a Toyota Land Cruiser to be put at the projects disposal for the construction of the clinic. When said like that it seems a simple thing. But remember now this is Vanuatu. The Land Cruiser belongs to the North District Pharmacy and was don</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Vanuatu/Santo/blog-547372.html</link>
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                    <title>Another Clinic 2010</title>
                    <description>As some of you all know. Im not back in the states as was originally planned. Im still in Vanuatu still building clinics. Had I held onto my original tickets I would have landed back in the states late October and spent the holidays with family. Ive changed my tickets thanks to some very generous benefactors here in Vanuatu. These benefactors have promised to finance the construction of</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Vanuatu/Santo/blog-547358.html</link>
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                    <title>2010 West Coast Clinic Construction</title>
                    <description>As many of you know I planned on doing several things with Project MARC while in Vanuatu this year. When I left the states this past July the number one item on that list was the construction of a ClinicDispensary on the West Coast of Espiritu Santo. In all honesty Id been trying to get this clinic built for the better part of the past 3 years. My hopes were high and it appeared that we fina</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Vanuatu/Santo/blog-540300.html</link>
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                    <title>Another Story by Frank Zolnai</title>
                    <description>DISCLAIMER  The words following are solely the opinions of the author and do not represent the opinions or policy of Project MARC.  Simply put  Frank is crazy and I cant be held responsible for all the trouble he seems to get us into. Hes at times an indispensable operative and right hand man and at other times hes a free agent akin to a tornado or tropical cyclone. Please dont</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Vanuatu/Santo/blog-539232.html</link>
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                    <title>MARC 2010 Vaccination Campaign</title>
                    <description>In the midst of all that is happening with our Clinic Construction Expedition there have been several side projects. One of these took the form of an immunization campaign. While building at the construction site continued another Project MARC team assisted the Vanuatu Ministry of Health with the delivery and administering of Stik Meresin blong Olgeta Pikinini Bislama for Vaccine. The campaig</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Vanuatu/Santo/blog-533892.html</link>
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                    <title>A story by Nathan Brodie</title>
                    <description>Ive spent 8 days in Vanuatu and I am loving it. This is one of the best decisions Ive made in my life. The scenery is phenomenal and the people in Wusi are even better. Perfect weather coupled with great people and great food and I feel like Im on vacation and not Volunteering with Project MARC.I spent my first four nights in Vanuatu in Hotels. The Hibiscus was for one night and The Beach</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Vanuatu/Santo/blog-526848.html</link>
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                    <title>Just don't push it</title>
                    <description>The first week of expeditions have been a bit slow moving but maybe thats just because Im still getting acclimated to being in Vanuatu again. No matter how many times I want to push things to go faster I keep getting taught that you dont rush Vanuatu. Weve had a few speed bumps but I dare not call them obstacles. Over here we like to refer to them as New Opportunities for C</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Vanuatu/Santo/Luganville/blog-525458.html</link>
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                    <title>And now back to Vanuatu</title>
                    <description>A great deal has happened since my last blog entry. My apologies to any dedicated readers that I never did finish up with the stories from April in Haiti. Truth be told I was rather reluctant to put those stories in print. Publishing stories of my time working for Medicos Del Mundo would be against the spirit if not the letter of the agreements made during my hiring. April is a ways behind us </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Vanuatu/blog-520563.html</link>
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                    <title>Haiti Week One</title>
                    <description> PetitGoave Haiti. Week OneI spent my first full day in Haiti doing a lot of sight seeing. Not the holiday vacation type of sightseeing that you may be thinking of though. There were many severe sightstobeseen in the immediate disaster area of PortAuPrince and when youre crammed in the back of an SUV there really isnt much you can do but stare out the window. That first day in</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Haiti/blog-483691.html</link>
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                    <title>Interesting days of departure and arrival</title>
                    <description>Feb 15thAfter three days notice before departure it was finally time to go. I found out on a Wednesday that Id be heading to Haiti and my original ticket was set for Saturday at 6AM. The plan was for me to be in Santo Domingo for a day before SueLin arrived so that I could try to line up a flight to PortAuPrince through UNHAS United Nations Humanitarian Air Service. A commercial flight cou</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Haiti/blog-480953.html</link>
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                    <title>Yes...this is Haiti</title>
                    <description>TravelBlog 31Its difficult to sum up all that has happened during the past two weeks. The easiest thing to say is that is that it has been a long series of Very Interesting Days. If you need an example please check out the story titled An Interesting Day found here on this site. That particular day was one of many experienced in Vanuatu during the month of November. But there I was f</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Haiti/blog-480888.html</link>
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                    <title>Haiti for those unaware...</title>
                    <description>Hello AllFor those unaware Seamus SueLin and Project MARC left the states on February 15th for PetitGoave Haiti so that they could assist with the relief efforts there. Hopefully there will be further updates as the days progress. The past two weeks have been full of work and there is still very much more to do. Intially the work revolved around the operation of the Wesleyan Cooperative Hospi</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Haiti/blog-479676.html</link>
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                    <title>A story by Dr. SueLin Hilbert</title>
                    <description>A story by Dr. SueLin Hilbert I am not what you would call a natural born leader.  I think I ran for some kind of class office in high school once.  I dont have that striking charisma that some people do where they can walk into a group of people and just own the room.  Im more of a keep your head down and work hard team member happy to step up when needed but equally happy to </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Vanuatu/Malekula/blog-473705.html</link>
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