Brooke's First BLOG - A Good Day in the CNMI

On Saturday morning I dragged myself out of bed at 7:00 am to participate in the CNMI’s Health and Wellness Fair.  It had been a busy week.  Volunteers and I had been working to canvas villages around Saipan with our campaign posters.  Putting up posters is not easy work.  First, you have to explain the campaign to the store owner and ask permission, then you have to find the ideal spot on walls and doors covered with big and bright advertisements for cigarettes, beer, the latest sport drinks, and finally you have to put them up with a significant amount of tape per poster to ensure that they will withstand the humidity, rain, and heat.  Each poster takes about ten minutes, and in a village with a store in every other building, it takes quite a bit of time.