August 3, 2011

Day 3 - Camp Hayden Marks

By jmarshall

Whew!  After seeing over 200 boys with ages ranging from 8-12, we have completed all of Fishkill 1's jobs, the jobs from our previous days' camps, and the 60-ish jobs we had from today's camp!!!!!  We are completely caught up with our normal jobs!  Today was a great day!  A camp full of boys is definitely rowdier than a camp full of girls!  Today we switched up the jobs a little bit and some of us who were in pretesting before got to work in the lab on Eyeleen and vice versa.  I finally got a chance to get away from the edger and see some kids! :) Amber and I sat together most of the day and ran the autorefractor and tonometer.  For those of you who don't know, the tonometer is a machine that sends a puff of air into the eye to test eye pressure.  It is also the most feared piece of machinery when it comes to testing kids.  99% of kids hate the machine and will not stay still while you attempt to get a reading.  My highlight of the day was one boy, about 10, who giggled like crazy every time the machine puffed his eye.  We would have to get him to calm down so we could get a good reading!  It was hilarious.  I've never seen a child get so much joy out of the tonometer.  Overall it was a pretty quick day.  Camp Hayden Marks consists of 6 villages, and we saw all 6 villages and even started packing up some of the equipment before dinner time at 6pm.  We had a lot of help from Sunglass Hut again today, with a few people staying overnight to help us again tomorrow!!!  We are so blessed to have so many people want to come out and volunteer their time to help us on this clinic.  We can't thank you enough and can't do it without volunteers!

Tomorrow we are headed to Camp Tommy, also an all boys camp but for older boys.  Friday is solely a production day, where Eyeleen will hook up with Eyevan and we will pound out some glasses!  Lots of surface jobs still left as well as chabellas from global missions.  

Still working on ways to get all these wonderful pictures up for everyone to see!  It will be very soon!  

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