Our public health experience began in Homer. Our preceptor is a pretty cool guy who knows a ton about public health nursing! He took us into town to do a windshield survey of the town. It was very beneficial to see the town that we were going to work in for the next few days. Homer seems to be a very unique small town. The population seems to be made up of a large group of free spirited people, fishermen, and Alaskan homesteaders. Yet somehow these very different populations mesh seemingly effortlessly. We went dow onto the fishing dock area called "the spit" where our preceptor told us that there were a lot of immigrants who work on the docks and sometimes do not have the healthiest or safest areas to work with. Of course this can lead to the fish becoming contaminated and those who eat the fish to get sick. we also saw a lot of homes that do not have plumbing. These people have to collect their water and may be exposed to different diseases that can be found in unclean water. Therefore, teaching this population how to filter or clean their water that they collect is vital for their health. Finally we went back to the public health office and sat in on a teleconference with the public health department in Kenai.