KAITLYN
I had a lot of fun last night. The dinner was delicious and the movie was very good.

JODI
last night was a lot of fun and surprising because i didnt expect us to go out and do something like that. The dorms are pretty nice even tho kaitlyn and i spent the night in the t.v. room. I really like all the people in our group - adults and other kids. Today's activities were more in depth and i really liked this morning's discussion.

MERIAH
First we had breakfast at the Student Union Building. Then at 8:45 we met at BTC to meet Dr. William Tietz.

JODI
Bill Tietz is a very good speaker and i got quite a few notes from his presentation on all the different diseases. What I really liked was how he didn't concentrate so much on one disease as he did on giving a few details on many different diseases. These are a few of the diseases and a couple details that I picked up from his discussion:

1. The sweating disease - was in London in the 1500s, usually killed the host in about 24 hours, and then after a while it eventually just disappeared
2. Leprosy - the way they treated the people with leprosy was that they confined them and left them alone, because the disease weakened their immune system this opened up chances for communicable diseases. The plague took advantage of this.
3. Swine flu - this originally came from swine and would disappear and hide in earthworms. Because it was in domestic pigs it mutated and jumped the species barrier into humans. Then it disappeared again.

These are only a few of the diseases that he talked about but I didn't know anything about them so I found this very interesting. He also talked about some common things like the flu. I didn't know that it hid in pigs and ducks and that this is where it changed and mutated. This is the reason that we need a new flu vaccine every year.