Sarah: what teens can learn on a trip
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[0:00] Last year in Panama, I was a dental assistant and I also interacted with the kids and they

[0:06] just kind of helped out. They had like a bunch of different like interactive activities and

[0:13] I kind of helped out with that. There's this girl, she looked about to be about eight years old

[0:17] and her name was Mooshmila and I obviously wanted to take her home in my suitcase. She was

[0:22] the cutest little thing and she was so sweet and she she was honestly my favorite. She was

[0:28] right by my side and she never left ever so yeah honestly I don't think any

[0:35] stories could have prepared me for the first night there cuz I was absolutely so

[0:39] scared but because seriously I mean you're just you're sitting on a cot and

[0:45] then you've got the only thing that's protecting you from the outside is this

[0:49] mosquito net that's what it is and that's the only thing that's like keeping

[0:54] getting you away from bugs and scorpions and mosquitoes.

[0:59] It was kind of a realization as a teenager to go there and then just like you were doing

[1:06] something outside of yourself and I think a lot of teenagers, they need to like experience

[1:14] something like that.

[1:15] Go and do something not for yourself but for someone else and you have no benefit for

[1:20] It was such an eye-opener because you know up here it was you know you're very like

[1:25] it's all about me you know my nails and just like you know all that but down there they have

[1:31] nothing we're so thankful and they are it is it was so neat it was like whatever they had

[1:39] they were thankful for but you know up here we are so spoiled and it was just really cool to see

[1:45] that and distinguish between the two.