I didn't originally intend to continue this blog after Africa, but my
parents like it and I like the idea of it, so we'll see if I can keep it up.
The post-Africa summer which seemed to creep by at a snail's pace is finally speeding up and is rapidly ending. I leave for Seattle on Tuesday, am going to spend a few da
ys with my roommate and her wonderful family, and then I move into my dorm on the 20th for a week of leadership retreat and orientation-ing the freshmen, and then school starts on the 29th!
This is what summer at home has looked like:
I spent a wonderful week with my family at my favorite place in the world - indian lake, NY
Laughed and cried (sometimes simultaneously) with my best friend, Caitlin Riggs
Michael Frank, a wonderful friend from school, flew out from CA to shadow my dad and some other docs at work. Oh, and to hang out with me and Caitlin on our favorite bridge at the old Green Frog Village and cotton farm museum of the South of course! I've spent some time with a handful of other people who are dear to me (but I've been a slacker on the pictures) and have spent way too many hours of my life working at my dad's clinic, sitting at a desk, feeding patient charts into a scanner.
The brightest point of this career path was the day that I discovered the plethora of podcasts available from NPR. Instead of listening to country music (which I admit, I've slowly developed an appreciation of) or the shrieking of the scanner when it tries to eat the staples that elude the jaws of my removal toy, I've been listening to short stories read by actors, histories of people told through interviews and radio clips, stories of unique individuals in South Africa (I was very excited about that one, because I had been to the township in which the girl lives), New York, Bozeman Montana, who were given voice recorders. It's all absolutely enchanting.
Tomorrow is my last day of work. And while I enjoy the six hours days of NPR, I will not miss the scanner in the least.
