0:00:13 > 0:00:15THEY ROAR
0:00:15 > 0:00:17# My life. #
0:00:20 > 0:00:23I'm Iona and this is my home.
0:00:23 > 0:00:27But it's not an ordinary ship, it's actually a floating hospital
0:00:27 > 0:00:30that saves hundreds of lives each year.
0:00:30 > 0:00:34I love living on the ship, it's such an amazing experience,
0:00:34 > 0:00:36everybody is kind of like one big family.
0:00:36 > 0:00:38Me and my family travel all over the world
0:00:38 > 0:00:42helping people in some of the poorest places.
0:00:42 > 0:00:45One of the best things is I get to make friends with the young patients
0:00:45 > 0:00:47who come on board.
0:00:47 > 0:00:50People like Grace, who's having a really tough time fitting in.
0:00:54 > 0:00:56An operation would change Grace's life for ever.
0:01:03 > 0:01:07But will such a big operation work?
0:01:07 > 0:01:09Come on board with me and find out what goes on
0:01:09 > 0:01:12in the floating hospital.
0:01:12 > 0:01:14So, I live on Deck 5 on the ship
0:01:14 > 0:01:16and I've lived here for seven years.
0:01:16 > 0:01:19The ship is not a typical place to live.
0:01:19 > 0:01:23Often you can become bored cos you can't just nip to the cinema
0:01:23 > 0:01:24or go for a walk
0:01:24 > 0:01:28but I love living on the ship, it's such an amazing experience
0:01:28 > 0:01:30to live in a completely different culture
0:01:30 > 0:01:33with people from all over the world.
0:01:33 > 0:01:36I have an older sister, Rachel, who's 16
0:01:36 > 0:01:39and a younger brother, Nathaniel, who's 11
0:01:39 > 0:01:41and my mum and my dad are also here.
0:01:42 > 0:01:44This is a plan of our ship.
0:01:44 > 0:01:47It's so huge it's the best way to show you around.
0:01:49 > 0:01:53So, this is where I live. You can come in.
0:01:53 > 0:01:55This is my brother's bedroom.
0:01:56 > 0:01:59He sleeps on the bottom bunk.
0:01:59 > 0:02:01It's really messy, a real boy's room.
0:02:01 > 0:02:05This is our bathroom - really small, just like a shower and a toilet,
0:02:05 > 0:02:08sink, but we manage.
0:02:08 > 0:02:10And this is mine and my sister's bedroom -
0:02:10 > 0:02:13we've shared a room for seven years now.
0:02:13 > 0:02:17I sleep on the bottom bunk and she has the top bunk.
0:02:18 > 0:02:20Obviously, this whole room isn't my space.
0:02:20 > 0:02:23This bed right here is my personal space.
0:02:23 > 0:02:26I mean, this is pretty much all my stuff,
0:02:26 > 0:02:28is in this one little room.
0:02:28 > 0:02:32And then this is our living areas, we have a little kitchen area.
0:02:32 > 0:02:35That's my mum and a living area with, you know,
0:02:35 > 0:02:37some nice chairs to relax in.
0:02:37 > 0:02:41And this is my parent's bedroom, they have the biggest bedroom
0:02:41 > 0:02:43of our whole family.
0:02:45 > 0:02:49Because the walls are so thin, if we put a screw through it to, like,
0:02:49 > 0:02:53hang something on the wall, it just goes right through.
0:02:53 > 0:02:55So, instead, all of our walls are magnetic,
0:02:55 > 0:02:58so we use magnets to stick everything up, so...
0:02:58 > 0:03:00you can just stick anything anywhere you like.
0:03:02 > 0:03:05So, at the minute we are in Point Noire in Congo
0:03:05 > 0:03:08and previously we were travelling up and down the west coast of Africa
0:03:08 > 0:03:11to places such as Sierra Leone, Liberia, Togo, Benin.
0:03:13 > 0:03:16Congo is one of the poorest places in the world.
0:03:16 > 0:03:20People only get paid around £4.50 a day for their work.
0:03:20 > 0:03:23This is definitely a harder way of life
0:03:23 > 0:03:27but the people here in West Africa - I see it quite a lot -
0:03:27 > 0:03:30they are always very rich in terms of joy
0:03:30 > 0:03:34and they are always ready to smile or wave or say hello and greet you.
0:03:36 > 0:03:41Like many African countries, the healthcare available is very basic.
0:03:41 > 0:03:45That's why the Africa Mercy has come here to serve as a free hospital
0:03:45 > 0:03:46to the people who need it.
0:03:46 > 0:03:49When we come into a country, we try and tell as many people
0:03:49 > 0:03:52as possible about Mercy Ship so if they do have a condition
0:03:52 > 0:03:54we can at least take a look at them.
0:03:54 > 0:03:57Thousands of people travel from all over the country
0:03:57 > 0:04:00to line up and see if the doctors on board can help them.
0:04:00 > 0:04:03The patients come through the main gate at the end of the dock
0:04:03 > 0:04:06and then they come to this tent here to get seen by a doctor.
0:04:08 > 0:04:10Once the patients have been seen by a doctor,
0:04:10 > 0:04:12if we can help them, we send them onto the ship,
0:04:12 > 0:04:15and if we can't help them, we have to send them home.
0:04:15 > 0:04:19Someone who's hoping her life could be changed for ever is
0:04:19 > 0:04:2318-year-old Grace. She's travelled hundreds of miles from Kinshasa.
0:04:43 > 0:04:46The doctors think Grace has a tumour called...
0:04:47 > 0:04:50It's a type of growth that starts in the jaw.
0:04:50 > 0:04:53It begins in the cells that make the enamel on your teeth.
0:04:53 > 0:04:56The tumour grows and grows through the jawbone,
0:04:56 > 0:04:58making it swell up and cause pain.
0:04:58 > 0:05:01In the UK, this would have been picked up by a dentist
0:05:01 > 0:05:03early enough for it not be a problem
0:05:03 > 0:05:07but now an operation is the only way to treat it.
0:05:20 > 0:05:22It can be really scary going into a hospital
0:05:22 > 0:05:26but we try to make it easier for everyone who comes to our ship.
0:05:26 > 0:05:30One of the things we do on board is visit our patients to
0:05:30 > 0:05:32get to know them, to give them something to do to pass the time
0:05:32 > 0:05:35while they are healing or waiting for their surgery.
0:05:35 > 0:05:37And, this week, I'm going to be meeting one of the patients
0:05:37 > 0:05:39on board and her name is Grace.
0:05:41 > 0:05:43- TRANSLATED FROM FRENCH: - I'm 18 years old.
0:05:52 > 0:05:54I'll work helping people.
0:05:55 > 0:05:58So, she's coming on board for the first time.
0:05:58 > 0:06:01So it's going to be overwhelming for her but come with me
0:06:01 > 0:06:02and we can go and meet her.
0:06:12 > 0:06:15I've come to this ship to get my tumour removed.
0:06:19 > 0:06:21I've seen this kind of thing before.
0:06:21 > 0:06:24And you have to see the person beneath the tumour
0:06:24 > 0:06:26or whatever it is that they have.
0:06:31 > 0:06:33Congo being a French-speaking country,
0:06:33 > 0:06:35a lot of the people here speak French.
0:06:35 > 0:06:39My French...is not very good. I don't know very many words
0:06:39 > 0:06:43but I think with translators and my little bit of French
0:06:43 > 0:06:46and my hand gestures, my main points will get across.
0:06:48 > 0:06:50- Hello, bonjour.- Bonjour.
0:06:52 > 0:06:53- Ca va?- Ca va, bien.
0:06:58 > 0:07:01How was your journey?
0:07:01 > 0:07:04SPEAKING IN FRENCH
0:07:06 > 0:07:08INAUDIBLE
0:07:08 > 0:07:09- That's good.- Yeah.
0:07:09 > 0:07:12You come with me and I'm going to show you my home.
0:07:13 > 0:07:15I'm really excited to meet someone from the Congo,
0:07:15 > 0:07:18to get to know how her life is.
0:07:21 > 0:07:24'With such different backgrounds sometimes it's difficult'
0:07:24 > 0:07:29to find a common point that you can connect with.
0:07:29 > 0:07:32But, eventually, you do find something that is similar.
0:07:34 > 0:07:36You try and score.
0:07:38 > 0:07:40Oh, so close.
0:07:42 > 0:07:43LAUGHTER
0:07:43 > 0:07:48If I was Grace and I had this huge tumour, erm,
0:07:48 > 0:07:51I think it would be really difficult and probably very embarrassing
0:07:51 > 0:07:54for her as well. And so it would be...
0:07:54 > 0:07:56you'd be afraid to reach out to people
0:07:56 > 0:07:58for fear of being pushed away or being made fun of.
0:08:08 > 0:08:10Everything on board is new for Grace,
0:08:10 > 0:08:13so I'm going to give her some time to settle in.
0:08:13 > 0:08:16For me, living on board with 20 other families
0:08:16 > 0:08:18means there is always someone to hang out with.
0:08:18 > 0:08:20Here we go, guys!
0:08:20 > 0:08:22I would say the best thing about living on the ship
0:08:22 > 0:08:25is the community aspect.
0:08:25 > 0:08:28Erm, everybody is like one big family and we all help each other
0:08:28 > 0:08:32and encourage each other and that's really cool.
0:08:32 > 0:08:35But living as one big family has its downsides, too.
0:08:36 > 0:08:39Did we actually win?
0:08:39 > 0:08:42If you get in a fight with somebody,
0:08:42 > 0:08:45you can't just avoid them cos you're always around them.
0:08:45 > 0:08:47You eat your meals together,
0:08:47 > 0:08:50you can see each other just walking through the hallways.
0:08:51 > 0:08:53LAUGHTER
0:08:54 > 0:08:57You're so short, you have no chin!
0:09:01 > 0:09:03Yeah... No, in the pan!
0:09:03 > 0:09:05SHE LAUGHS
0:09:05 > 0:09:08One of my favourite times of the week is pancake Friday.
0:09:08 > 0:09:12The best bit is when you get to cook in the ship's massive kitchen.
0:09:14 > 0:09:16Oh, no, actually, it's not bad.
0:09:16 > 0:09:19When we have some free time me and my family like to go out
0:09:19 > 0:09:22and spend some time together to relax.
0:09:22 > 0:09:25This week, we're travelling out to do some hiking together in Congo
0:09:25 > 0:09:28at a nearby gorge.
0:09:28 > 0:09:30Just don't step on the rope.
0:09:30 > 0:09:32The hike takes about an hour.
0:09:32 > 0:09:36It's so steep that we keep falling down at various parts.
0:09:36 > 0:09:38That was the easy bit.
0:09:38 > 0:09:40Natty stumbles across a praying mantis.
0:09:40 > 0:09:44He's always playing with strange creatures.
0:09:50 > 0:09:54So we're looking for different shells on the beach.
0:09:54 > 0:09:55I found some nice ones.
0:09:55 > 0:09:58It's a real adventure living on the other side of the world
0:09:58 > 0:10:00but I do miss some things.
0:10:00 > 0:10:02Back at home, most of my friends...
0:10:02 > 0:10:05I mean, I do still know a couple of people
0:10:05 > 0:10:07but we haven't really...
0:10:07 > 0:10:10interacted, you know, hung out socially or whatever
0:10:10 > 0:10:13for, like, seven years. So, I mean, you can't really keep
0:10:13 > 0:10:16a relationship going, like a friendship going for...
0:10:16 > 0:10:18seven-plus years and expect to come back
0:10:18 > 0:10:21and find everything's just exactly how you left it.
0:10:25 > 0:10:28It's the night before Grace's operation.
0:10:28 > 0:10:31I know hospitals can be scary so I've come by to see how she is.
0:10:33 > 0:10:36'I've brought a game along so we can play together even though
0:10:36 > 0:10:38'we don't speak the same language.
0:10:39 > 0:10:41'There's not a lot to do on the ward'
0:10:41 > 0:10:43and it's really nice to have a friend that will come
0:10:43 > 0:10:46and hang out with you and do things with you.
0:10:48 > 0:10:51"Adopt a patient" is really good cos you can learn so many things
0:10:51 > 0:10:54from the patients, like, sometimes they will try and teach you
0:10:54 > 0:10:56their language or playing new games with them
0:10:56 > 0:10:58maybe that you've never played before.
0:11:03 > 0:11:07'I'm going to give Grace some space to be with her mum.'
0:11:07 > 0:11:09But I've got other patients to visit.
0:11:09 > 0:11:11This is Fredrich, he's 11.
0:11:15 > 0:11:17It's very nice to meet you.
0:11:17 > 0:11:19Fredrich is going to have an operation to remove
0:11:19 > 0:11:24the growth on his neck in one of the five operating theatres on board.
0:11:24 > 0:11:25In the local schools and communities,
0:11:25 > 0:11:29children with disfigurements are often mocked or ridiculed.
0:11:29 > 0:11:33Last year, there was a boy that came and he was afraid to go to school
0:11:33 > 0:11:36because the children there were so mean to him.
0:11:37 > 0:11:39But we welcome everyone to our hospital.
0:11:40 > 0:11:43Every week, hundreds of patients are treated for
0:11:43 > 0:11:47all kinds of things, from burn injuries to eye conditions.
0:11:51 > 0:11:56It takes a huge team of people to keep a floating hospital working.
0:11:56 > 0:11:58And it's not just the doctors and nurses,
0:11:58 > 0:12:00there are lots of other people.
0:12:00 > 0:12:02My mum and dad are part of that, too.
0:12:02 > 0:12:04My mum is a...
0:12:05 > 0:12:07..which means she helps new crew settle in
0:12:07 > 0:12:09when they are on board.
0:12:09 > 0:12:10My dad is the...
0:12:11 > 0:12:14..And manages the ship's day-to-day duties.
0:12:16 > 0:12:19And this is the bridge, where they steer the ship.
0:12:19 > 0:12:23And I am sitting in the captain's chair. Yeah.
0:12:23 > 0:12:25It's very comfortable!
0:12:25 > 0:12:26I should take a nap.
0:12:26 > 0:12:28If I was the captain...
0:12:28 > 0:12:31we would just sail to... I don't know, maybe the Caribbean
0:12:31 > 0:12:33or something. Stay there for a while!
0:12:33 > 0:12:35It's not that interesting if you're in port.
0:12:35 > 0:12:38If we were sailing, people could come visit the bridge
0:12:38 > 0:12:40during visiting hours.
0:12:40 > 0:12:44And, kind of, watch them sail the ship.
0:12:44 > 0:12:46How do you control the ship?
0:12:46 > 0:12:48Well, we have a main control station for the steering
0:12:48 > 0:12:51and the engines right here in the centre of the ship.
0:12:51 > 0:12:52'As well as being the ship's captain,
0:12:52 > 0:12:55'Tim is one of our family friends.'
0:12:55 > 0:12:56And what's this station for?
0:12:56 > 0:12:59This station over here is all about navigation.
0:12:59 > 0:13:01We have electronic and paper charts
0:13:01 > 0:13:05which allows us to monitor the weather and that sort of thing.
0:13:05 > 0:13:08And why are these encased in plastic?
0:13:08 > 0:13:12We have these here to protect the controls while we're sailing.
0:13:12 > 0:13:15So that someone doesn't inadvertently walk up and sort of...
0:13:15 > 0:13:16SHE LAUGHS
0:13:16 > 0:13:20- ..push it full forward and we start to plane away.- Off we go!
0:13:22 > 0:13:27So this is where we get our food. We have a very wide variety of food.
0:13:27 > 0:13:30Today, it's potatoes and chicken pot pie.
0:13:30 > 0:13:33It's a bit like eating all your meals in the school canteen.
0:13:33 > 0:13:35Some of the things that bug me about the ship -
0:13:35 > 0:13:38little things you wouldn't really think you'd miss like...
0:13:38 > 0:13:42a more wider variety of cereal or nice fresh milk
0:13:42 > 0:13:44or good cheese or whatever.
0:13:45 > 0:13:47This is Deck 3, it contains our
0:13:47 > 0:13:50four wards with 80 patient beds
0:13:50 > 0:13:52as well as our five operating theatres.
0:13:53 > 0:13:57One of the coolest places on the ship is the top deck.
0:13:57 > 0:13:59So this is the pool we have on board.
0:13:59 > 0:14:01I don't use the pool very much
0:14:01 > 0:14:04but sometimes we'll come up and have, like, a pizza pool party.
0:14:04 > 0:14:08And my brother often comes up here and hangs out with his friends.
0:14:11 > 0:14:13Why do you have all the machinery downstairs?
0:14:13 > 0:14:16Well, you see, the ship is like a small city.
0:14:16 > 0:14:18Reiner spends a lot of his time down here.
0:14:19 > 0:14:22So we have everything from the sewage plant treatment
0:14:22 > 0:14:25to the power generation and everything that you find
0:14:25 > 0:14:27in a small city, you can actually find in this...
0:14:27 > 0:14:29on our ship.
0:14:29 > 0:14:30ALARM BLARES
0:14:30 > 0:14:32What is this alarm... that's going off?
0:14:32 > 0:14:34- That's the telephone. - And the other one?
0:14:34 > 0:14:37That comes on whenever we have an alarm in the engine room.
0:14:37 > 0:14:40Anything that happen there is connected to the alarm system here.
0:14:40 > 0:14:43What would happen if you just pushed one of these buttons at random?
0:14:43 > 0:14:45What if I was to push... this red one right there?
0:14:45 > 0:14:48- That one doesn't work now so you can push it.- Oh.
0:14:48 > 0:14:50- HE CHUCKLES - 'I just can't resist!'
0:14:50 > 0:14:52ALARM BLARES
0:14:54 > 0:14:57We're going to see Grace. It's the morning of her surgery,
0:14:57 > 0:15:00so she might be a bit nervous so we're going to go
0:15:00 > 0:15:01and see how she's feeling.
0:15:01 > 0:15:04Give her a bit of encouragement for her surgery.
0:15:07 > 0:15:09- Bonjour.- ALL: Bonjour.
0:15:09 > 0:15:11Ca va?
0:15:11 > 0:15:13GRACE LAUGHS
0:15:21 > 0:15:24Are you feeling nervous about your surgery?
0:15:24 > 0:15:26TRANSLATOR SPEAKS IN FRENCH
0:15:27 > 0:15:30- Oui.- ..nervous, oui.
0:15:30 > 0:15:33'Grace's surgeon is one of my dad's friends.'
0:15:33 > 0:15:36The surgeon is a really good surgeon.
0:15:36 > 0:15:39TRANSLATOR SPEAKS IN FRENCH
0:15:48 > 0:15:52What difference do you think it will make, the surgery...?
0:15:52 > 0:15:54SHE SPEAKS IN FRENCH
0:15:54 > 0:15:57She says she will become... It will change a lot.
0:15:57 > 0:16:00She will become pretty, that's one of the things that she said.
0:16:00 > 0:16:02And I told her, she's already pretty.
0:16:05 > 0:16:08What time is she going to surgery?
0:16:08 > 0:16:11It will probably be between 9 and 9.15.
0:16:11 > 0:16:15'But Grace's operation isn't just about changing the way she looks.'
0:16:15 > 0:16:16If she didn't have the surgery,
0:16:16 > 0:16:20she would die and she would die of slow suffocation,
0:16:20 > 0:16:23meaning that, as the tumour pushes further and further into her mouth,
0:16:23 > 0:16:26you find it harder and harder to breathe.
0:16:26 > 0:16:29Anybody's been to the swimming baths and had someone hold
0:16:29 > 0:16:32your head under the water for longer than you're comfortable with,
0:16:32 > 0:16:33you're thinking only one thing -
0:16:33 > 0:16:35"Get my nose above the water."
0:16:35 > 0:16:37Because our desire to breathe
0:16:37 > 0:16:39is the strongest of all of our drives.
0:16:41 > 0:16:46..the healing of her body and will bring her safely back. Amen.
0:16:48 > 0:16:50Take her hand, Iona.
0:16:56 > 0:16:57My faith in...
0:16:58 > 0:17:01..in Jesus is definitely a huge part of my life
0:17:01 > 0:17:05and it affects all the choices I make and everything that I do.
0:17:05 > 0:17:08Especially when interacting with patients,
0:17:08 > 0:17:10my faith comes into play a lot.
0:17:10 > 0:17:14Because...on the ship, we talk about not just healing
0:17:14 > 0:17:18the outside of a person but trying to heal the inside as well
0:17:18 > 0:17:23and so we try to share the love of God
0:17:23 > 0:17:29and heal those traumatic emotional experiences that they've had.
0:17:29 > 0:17:31I know Gary fairly well
0:17:31 > 0:17:35and I want to know more about how he's going to save Grace's life.
0:17:36 > 0:17:38So what is the procedure today?
0:17:38 > 0:17:42Today, we have to remove the tumour and her lower jaw
0:17:42 > 0:17:48and get it completely away cleanly... so that it won't come back.
0:17:48 > 0:17:51- And is this difficult? - I would say that it's normal for us
0:17:51 > 0:17:53here on this ship but it is difficult.
0:17:53 > 0:17:56Um, what kind of change is this going to make to her life?
0:17:56 > 0:18:00Yeah, for her... she will live, that's the big one.
0:18:00 > 0:18:03It's always a tense time when anyone comes into surgery
0:18:03 > 0:18:07but Grace has become a friend to me in these last couple of days.
0:18:07 > 0:18:10I'm praying that the operation is a success for her
0:18:10 > 0:18:12and everything goes smoothly.
0:18:12 > 0:18:15The first job is to remove the tumour.
0:18:15 > 0:18:17It's going very well, it's a difficult tumour,
0:18:17 > 0:18:22it's got a very strong blood supply so we're having to work...
0:18:23 > 0:18:26..carefully and quickly here
0:18:26 > 0:18:28to move things along. We're making good progress.
0:18:30 > 0:18:32This has to last her entire life.
0:18:33 > 0:18:35She's only 18.
0:18:35 > 0:18:39Next, Gary has to rebuild Grace's jaw.
0:18:39 > 0:18:43This is the material that we use to take the place of the jaw.
0:18:49 > 0:18:52- TRANSLATED FROM FRENCH: - I'm not nervous. I'm good.
0:18:52 > 0:18:56And when this is over I just want to give her a great big hug.
0:18:58 > 0:19:01BEEPING
0:19:05 > 0:19:09And now we are closing the skin but we are leaving extra skin
0:19:09 > 0:19:12because we know that the skin will shrink
0:19:12 > 0:19:14over the next three months.
0:19:17 > 0:19:20All Grace's mum and I can do is wait.
0:19:27 > 0:19:31And once the skin takes its final position, she will look...
0:19:31 > 0:19:33like she did...
0:19:33 > 0:19:35so that will be wonderful.
0:19:37 > 0:19:41After a long wait, Grace's operation is finally over.
0:19:41 > 0:19:44I'm not allowed to see Grace straight after surgery,
0:19:44 > 0:19:46so I catch up with Dr Garry.
0:19:46 > 0:19:49So how did the surgery go today?
0:19:49 > 0:19:51Yep, very pleased.
0:19:51 > 0:19:55It took... about four, four and a half hours.
0:19:55 > 0:19:59The tumour that we took out ended up being about the size of a
0:19:59 > 0:20:02rugby ball and then once that's out, you need to put something in place,
0:20:02 > 0:20:05otherwise the face will just hang down,
0:20:05 > 0:20:06there wouldn't be anything there.
0:20:06 > 0:20:08That's when we took the piece of titanium
0:20:08 > 0:20:11and fitted it in and made sure that her mouth
0:20:11 > 0:20:13opens and closes in the right way
0:20:13 > 0:20:18and everything's the right shape and then closed the skin with stitches
0:20:18 > 0:20:22and then...we're finished and, er... took a while but...
0:20:22 > 0:20:25it's came out well.
0:20:25 > 0:20:28While Grace recovers, I have to go back to school.
0:20:28 > 0:20:32It's like a regular school, except the class sizes are a lot smaller.
0:20:32 > 0:20:36So we've just had our lunch break and now we're back off to school.
0:20:36 > 0:20:38I'm going to my maths class
0:20:38 > 0:20:41and Rachel's off to take her online classes. Let's go.
0:20:41 > 0:20:43Because my school is on board,
0:20:43 > 0:20:45I can nip home for lunch every day
0:20:45 > 0:20:48and there is no excuse for forgetting your homework!
0:20:48 > 0:20:52There are so many different cultures and accents on the ship,
0:20:52 > 0:20:56often people, especially me, pick them up and kind of blend them.
0:20:56 > 0:20:57I do it.
0:20:57 > 0:21:00I've formed my own little lingo but, yeah, I think it's really cool,
0:21:00 > 0:21:02you get to experience completely different cultures
0:21:02 > 0:21:05and learn about new cultures, new experiences,
0:21:05 > 0:21:07instead of just textbooks or whatever.
0:21:07 > 0:21:09LAUGHTER
0:21:09 > 0:21:12MUSIC: "What I Go To School For" by Busted
0:21:12 > 0:21:15For PE, we don't have a space big enough
0:21:15 > 0:21:18for a proper game of football or basketball,
0:21:18 > 0:21:19so we invented our own.
0:21:20 > 0:21:26This is a mix of rugby, basketball and football, I think.
0:21:26 > 0:21:29It's probably the three main ones here!
0:21:29 > 0:21:31# That's what I go to school for. #
0:21:33 > 0:21:36Our school is definitely not normal.
0:21:36 > 0:21:39So, since we don't have someone employed to clean
0:21:39 > 0:21:40the school for us,
0:21:40 > 0:21:44all the students have to clean the school for the teachers.
0:21:44 > 0:21:46Nobody likes clean-up.
0:21:46 > 0:21:48Usually, I don't get up to mischief
0:21:48 > 0:21:53but sometimes I think some of the boys do, not to be stereotypical
0:21:53 > 0:21:56but I have never had detention on the ship!
0:21:56 > 0:21:58I would probably feel really ashamed of myself!
0:21:58 > 0:22:00SHE CHUCKLES
0:22:00 > 0:22:03Each year, we get our class photo taken on the dock.
0:22:03 > 0:22:07The photo's a great way to remind us of each place we have visited.
0:22:11 > 0:22:13And done! Yay!
0:22:13 > 0:22:15CHEERING
0:22:19 > 0:22:22Just going to catch up with Grace and see how she's doing
0:22:22 > 0:22:23after her surgery.
0:22:23 > 0:22:27This is a very big day for Grace, she's having her bandages changed
0:22:27 > 0:22:31and she'll see herself for the first time since the operation.
0:22:31 > 0:22:34Because of the procedure, she is still quite swollen
0:22:34 > 0:22:36but the doctors said that this is normal
0:22:36 > 0:22:38straight after a big operation
0:22:38 > 0:22:41and that it will gradually go down over the next few weeks.
0:22:41 > 0:22:44You have to look in the mirror to see.
0:22:44 > 0:22:47It's the first time she has really been able to look at herself
0:22:47 > 0:22:49since the operation.
0:22:49 > 0:22:50I know already that the surgery
0:22:50 > 0:22:53is going to make a massive difference to Grace
0:22:53 > 0:22:55and it's exciting to think that soon
0:22:55 > 0:22:58she will be able to lead a normal life.
0:22:59 > 0:23:01Bonjour, Grace! Ca va?
0:23:02 > 0:23:05Bonjour, mama. Ca va!
0:23:05 > 0:23:06- Ca va, et tois?- Yeah, ca va.
0:23:09 > 0:23:11QUIET LAUGHTER
0:23:12 > 0:23:15'In three months' time, she'll need to come back
0:23:15 > 0:23:18'for another final operation to help strengthen her new jaw
0:23:18 > 0:23:21'and then she'll be back to the old Grace.'
0:23:25 > 0:23:28- TRANSLATED FROM FRENCH: - She's a girl, after all,
0:23:28 > 0:23:30and girls just want to feel pretty.
0:23:33 > 0:23:37SPEAKING IN FRENCH
0:23:42 > 0:23:44So Grace is doing really well.
0:23:44 > 0:23:47Um, in the surgery, they took the tumour out,
0:23:47 > 0:23:50so her face has to shrink. Her skin wall...
0:23:50 > 0:23:52It will eventually shrink back and be normal.
0:23:52 > 0:23:53Takes about six months.
0:23:53 > 0:23:57But already, since the very last time I came to see her, it's shrunk
0:23:57 > 0:23:59a huge amount so she's doing really, really well.
0:24:04 > 0:24:07MUSIC: "Roar" by Katy Perry
0:24:10 > 0:24:14Four days after the operation, Grace is well enough to go out on deck.
0:24:22 > 0:24:26She's doing a lot better and is starting to get her smile back.
0:24:29 > 0:24:32After a week aboard the floating hospital,
0:24:32 > 0:24:34it's time for Grace to leave.
0:24:35 > 0:24:38# You hear my voice, you hear that sound
0:24:38 > 0:24:40# Like thunder... #
0:24:40 > 0:24:43Although she's leaving the ship, she won't be far away.
0:24:43 > 0:24:46For the next few weeks, her and her mum will be
0:24:46 > 0:24:50staying at a clinic nearby until she has fully recovered.
0:24:50 > 0:24:52# I got the eye of the tiger
0:24:52 > 0:24:54# A fighter
0:24:54 > 0:24:56# Dancing through the fire
0:24:56 > 0:24:59# Cos I am champion... #
0:24:59 > 0:25:03I think that Grace's future looks a lot brighter.
0:25:09 > 0:25:13TRANSLATION: I feel fine. I am comfortable. I am happy.
0:25:19 > 0:25:22I'm going to visit Grace at the Hope Centre and catch up with her,
0:25:22 > 0:25:25see how she's doing and hopefully hang out with her, as well.
0:25:27 > 0:25:30'It's been two months since Grace's operation.
0:25:30 > 0:25:32'I can't wait to see her again.
0:25:34 > 0:25:36'The Hope Centre has been where Grace has been staying
0:25:36 > 0:25:39'until she has her final operation.
0:25:39 > 0:25:41'Then she will be going back home.'
0:25:47 > 0:25:50Bonsoir. Bonsoir
0:25:56 > 0:26:00You look so different. I hardly recognise you.
0:26:00 > 0:26:01You look great.
0:26:01 > 0:26:03SHE SPEAKS IN FRENCH
0:26:09 > 0:26:12She's so happy to see you again.
0:26:14 > 0:26:16Yes! OK.
0:26:22 > 0:26:26TRANSLATION: Before the surgery no-one wanted to be anywhere near me.
0:26:27 > 0:26:30Now that's not the case. I can talk to anybody.
0:26:42 > 0:26:44TRANSLATION: My mum is very, very happy.
0:26:53 > 0:26:56The surgery has been amazing. It has changed my life.
0:27:00 > 0:27:04It's opened so many doors and given me the chance to have a future.
0:27:10 > 0:27:14Yes, so I'm leaving now. It was truly lovely to see you, Grace.
0:27:14 > 0:27:15You look amazing.
0:27:16 > 0:27:18I'll see you in December.
0:27:18 > 0:27:21OK. December.
0:27:21 > 0:27:24Oui, December. I have it right here.
0:27:24 > 0:27:25- Goodbye.- Bye.
0:27:25 > 0:27:27Grace has dramatically improved.
0:27:27 > 0:27:29She looks amazing
0:27:29 > 0:27:32and I know that this surgery has really changed her life.
0:27:35 > 0:27:37And Grace has touched my life, too.
0:27:37 > 0:27:38I've made a new friend
0:27:38 > 0:27:42and I'm sure I will make more new friends at our next destination.
0:27:44 > 0:27:48Always moving on - that's the life on board the floating hospital.