Today was a good day for reflection. We spent the early half of the afternoon with our community groups discussing the most exciting thing we’ve done over the past weekend followed by the thing we missed the most. For our group, we primarily said it was winning the scavenger hunt because obviously we are the best. Though, the second question was a bit more interesting. Answers ranged from people missing others, to objects such as A/C, and even the subtlest of conveniences like the ability to just take a drive. These discussions even got deeper when we began to apply the story of a Sudanese immigrant seeking asylum in Greece to our personal experiences of being out of the country. We were able to see the similarities through the excitement and enthusiasm we have all felt as well as the adjustment and withdrawal. This was a great opportunity for each of us to open up about the ups and downs that we have all been feeling and to reemphasize the importance of our groups, our friends, and this trip.
The latter half of the day was spent in the Praksis clinic where we had a chance to see how it worked. The whole experience was a bit overwhelming. There were people who had nowhere to go coming in and asking for help. Some of them can’t speak Greek or English and struggled to communicate. It was a very eye opening experience and I look for to spending the remainder of the week at the clinic.
--Dustin Harris
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