I was fortunate enough to visit the Bahamas not once but twice this summer. Last weekend I returned with my team members to present our findings at the second annual One Eleuthera Health and Wellness Symposium, which this year just so happened to be focusing on cancer. During our 9 hour long conference I learned a lot about the biology behind the BRCA gene mutations (the BRCA gene normally works as a tumor suppressor, without it the genes that cause breast cancer grow unchecked). It was cool/humbling/nerve-wracking to present my work to esteemed doctors and researchers, but it went off without a hitch.
This trip was action packed, in addition to the conference we got to attend Tarpum Bay's (the settlement we lived in) and Hatchet Bay's homecoming celebrations. These were weekend long celebrations, kinda like a fair but with more drinking and jungliss (a Bahamian term for ghetto looking girls who look tacky, like they are from the jungle. both a singular and plural noun and verb, it's now a part of my regular vocab and I'm trying to bring it back to Atlanta). This was a bittersweet visit, since this time I don't know when I will be back, but the Bahamas, namely Eleuthera, is now a part of me and I most certainly will have to return. I'm missing those beaches and the people already!
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| Hello Eleuthera!!! |
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| The narrowest point in the world, the Glass Window Bridge, with the Atlantic ocean in darker blue and the Caribbean in light blue. |
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