The South Pacific is AMAZING.
I am so lucky to be here.
I am on board the USNS Mercy volunteering with Pacific Partnership 2008 on a giant 890' Navy red cross hospital ship. It is the perfect opportunity to see the world, help people and learn about my future life as a Navy Dentist.
We are getting the chance to get to know and help the local people at length. The culture is shockingly different but we are fighting to teach and learn from the locals just as much as to treat them in our effort to improve relations.
The individual people are great. The language and cultural barriers are evident, but the children still laugh, the old women smile and it is hard to deny the warm connection. It is experiences like these that I hope will one day put an end to war. We are all the same with "One heart" as they would say in Jamaica.