Voices from Panama
A teen volunteer in the dental clinic
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A young volunteer describes helping in a dental clinic, one of the kinds of outreach that brought visiting teams to Panama.
Transcript
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Automatically transcribed from the audio; may contain errors.
I'm Samantha, I'm a sophomore at Sanwood High School, and I came here with my dad.
He's doing dental work, and I came to assist him and learn about that.
They went to an island where it was pouring down rain, and I was handing him instruments.
I learned so many names, different instruments, I didn't even know they existed.
And we were pulling teeth on some children, lots of children.
The first thing that I noticed when I came here was there were just some cows hanging out.
And that just completely startled me. I don't know. I never expected to see cows here
I don't know what it was, but I don't think I'll ever forget that just
Of everything I've seen the cows really stick out. So yeah
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Draft translation of the automatic transcript; may contain errors.
Soy Samantha, estoy en segundo año en Sanwood High School y vine con mi papá.
Él hace trabajo dental y yo vine a ayudarlo y a aprender.
Fuimos a una isla donde llovía a cántaros, y yo le pasaba los instrumentos.
Aprendí los nombres de muchísimos instrumentos que ni siquiera sabía que existían.
Estábamos sacando dientes a algunos niños, a muchos niños.
Lo primero que noté al llegar fue que había unas vacas por ahí.
Eso me sorprendió por completo. No sé, nunca esperaba ver vacas aquí.
No sé por qué, pero no creo que lo vaya a olvidar.
De todo lo que he visto, las vacas son lo que más recuerdo. Así es.
