Monday, February 17, 2020

Celebrating a 10 year journey!

It's been 10 years since Nick first boarded the Africa Mercy!
Nick first joined Mercy Ships as in Togo on 15 February 2010.  

I found a few quotes from Nick's first blog post that made me smile....

"So I arrived last Monday and the first thing they did was take a photo of me for my ID badge, which isn’t the best thing after a 16 hour journey when your looking like a raccoon in head lights...anyways they don’t waste anytime here, I had to get up at 5am to go to the first of the screening days"

"Now I’m slowly learning what exactly I will be doing on board - but basically I am the hospital’s physio - so i will be doing some burns work, mainly kids Ortho and some Maxillo-facial. I also found out that I will be involved in rolling out this Ponseti program in Togo..."

"anyways so that’s about it ... my French is definitely coming along and I reckon ill be speaking some form of French when I get back (not sure how good though)"

"Its funny the ship is starting to feel like home..."


Well done, Nick!!! I'm so proud of who you are.