Well, after a long day of travelling, due to many delays in the airport, Adventure Dog and I finally landed in Jamaica last night. He was very excited and loved his very own pouch to travel in.
We are here with a group of 30 people, all volunteers, who are going to be spending the next week helping the Jamaicans fix their teeth. We are setting up four different clinics in four different villages.
Today, we met our team, there are 9 of us. We went to the clinic that we will be working at and set it up so that tomorrow it will be ready and we can get right to work.
Jamaica has a lot of people who are very poor and don't have enough food to eat - so when they need to have their teeth fixed they have no money. Even if they had some money, there aren't enough dentists here to help everybody. Even though Jamaica is a very poor country, the people here are very friendly and very happy, and the country is truly beautiful. It is an island, which means it is surrounded on all sides by water, and the inner part of the country has high hills.
Ask Mrs. Soulier to show it to you on the map, or maybe some of you have been here before. The part of Jamaica we are in is Montego Bay. Do you remember last year when your c
lass helped to collect toothbrushes for me to bring to Jamaica, and I came into school and showed you all a slide show - maybe you can tell Mrs. Soulier about that.
Let me know what types of things you are interested in and I will be happy to share them with you, or if I don't know I will find out. Send questions and when I write again I will answer them.
Until then, Adventure Dog and I are going to have some dinner and get to bed early. Tomorrow we start work and it will be a long day - and it's very hot down here and that makes it even harder work!! Until next time....
We are here with a group of 30 people, all volunteers, who are going to be spending the next week helping the Jamaicans fix their teeth. We are setting up four different clinics in four different villages.
Today, we met our team, there are 9 of us. We went to the clinic that we will be working at and set it up so that tomorrow it will be ready and we can get right to work.
Jamaica has a lot of people who are very poor and don't have enough food to eat - so when they need to have their teeth fixed they have no money. Even if they had some money, there aren't enough dentists here to help everybody. Even though Jamaica is a very poor country, the people here are very friendly and very happy, and the country is truly beautiful. It is an island, which means it is surrounded on all sides by water, and the inner part of the country has high hills.
Ask Mrs. Soulier to show it to you on the map, or maybe some of you have been here before. The part of Jamaica we are in is Montego Bay. Do you remember last year when your c
lass helped to collect toothbrushes for me to bring to Jamaica, and I came into school and showed you all a slide show - maybe you can tell Mrs. Soulier about that.Let me know what types of things you are interested in and I will be happy to share them with you, or if I don't know I will find out. Send questions and when I write again I will answer them.
Until then, Adventure Dog and I are going to have some dinner and get to bed early. Tomorrow we start work and it will be a long day - and it's very hot down here and that makes it even harder work!! Until next time....
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