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he’s flying to Charlotte, Heathrow, Nairobi. Going on a month-long medical mission to Kenya. 20 years old…I envy him…
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I hope your son stays safe, sounds like a great adventure.
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If only to be 20 again.
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Good for your Son! I hope he has a very fulfilling trip and I’ll pray for his safety.
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Well Congrats. Hope he learns a lot while there...
on my end, I wouldn't even let my 29 year old son go down to Oakland if I had any input in the decision.
Oakland is too "close" to Africa for my tastes.
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Safe travels too ! He will come back a changed man!
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Good for him, most of Kenya is pretty safe by African standards. I’m going to bet it will change his perspective on life a bit, it’s hard not to going to place like that.
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Ditto on staying safe! Don't think I'd be too excited about me or my family going overseas nowadays! Just too much opportunity for trouble!
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Doctors without borders? My wifes niece did that. We thought it was insane to get off a puddle jumper, get into a beater Toyota and drive off into the jungles of Ecuador with a stranger.
God bless your son and other givers like him.
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CRA 1948 - " ... Going on a month-long medical mission to Kenya. 20 years old… " Just curious. What does a 20 year old do on a "medical mission" in Africa? Best of luck to him. L.W.
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He’ll have a great time and be carefully sequestered around while he’s there. I dunno if he’ll be in a malaria zone or need shots against rabies. Hey, I spent three years in an African village 🙂 School holidays I worked on the vaccination team out of Agogo Presbyterian Mission Hospital, which looks to be a much bigger deal on the ‘net now than it was forty years ago. My job was to maintain the vaccine guns and drive the medical teams around in their LandRovers. Four wheeling in Africa, pretty durn cool 😎 European medical students would stay over on short internships and I would take them on a twenty-five mile hike across the forest and plain to the Afram river (crossed by canoe) where there was an actual mud-walled thatched roof African village (not easy to find, even then, they prob’ly all have satellite TV now 🙂). Damn, 25 miles there. 25 miles back the next day, didn’t think anything of it, can’t hardly walk around the block now.
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Tell him to take a picture of Obama’s home town.😂
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he’s flying to Charlotte, Heathrow, Nairobi. Going on a month-long medical mission to Kenya. 20 years old…I envy him… Congrats on a well raised son Takes a certain type character to do that type of thing
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cra1948: I also wish for your son to have a safe and rewarding experience.
I will say this though I would have NO part in sending any of my four VarmintChildren off to Africa in this day and age.
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Damn...thought that was the MCRD flight. I reckon they're all hard on Dad.
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CRA 1948 - " ... Going on a month-long medical mission to Kenya. 20 years old… " Just curious. What does a 20 year old do on a "medical mission" in Africa? Best of luck to him. L.W. He’s a pre-med student, going into his senior year. His advisor sets this up for a group of students every year. They help out in a small clinic that handles a couple of hundred patients a day. Two students go at a time. Have to make their own way to Nairobi where they’re picked up at the airport. Very valuable experience in a number of ways. When he gets back he’s got an internship the rest of the summer with a plastic surgeon in private practice who has told him he’ll let him do “everything the law allows” in the OR.
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he’s flying to Charlotte, Heathrow, Nairobi. Going on a month-long medical mission to Kenya. 20 years old…I envy him… Congrats on a well raised son Takes a certain type character to do that type of thing Thank you. We didn’t bring up our kids to live in fear.
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Sounds like the young man has his act together and a bright future ahead.
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