While the last federal states in Germany are still on vacation, there is also a summer break in Myanmar summer break, as the ship is in the shipyard for its annual inspection. But the crew are not idle and have a packed program. Our nurses are busy at school and are receiving a computer course to make patient management on the floating clinic even easier to handle in future. Cook Thandar Oo is also continuing her education and is attending a cooking course in Yangon, a hygiene course and learning all about sensible merchandise management. With so much new knowledge, she will be back on the Irrawaddy in September and the patients will once again be well looked after. The next volunteer assignments are already planned.