Our adventure has come to an end. After breakfast we had a group reflection. Each one of us went around the circle and shared a rose, thorn and bud ( favorite, most difficult and something you’d take away) from our trip. I’m not exaggerating when I say there wasn’t a dry eye among us. We […]
July 27, 2013
Seaplane Tour of Glacier
We are waiting to board our sightseeing tour on Harbour Air’s seaplane for an aerial look at Vancouver and environs.
July 26, 2013
Greetings from Vancouver
We arrived in Vancouver and set out walking to Stanley Park and the Aquarium. Both were great attractions and Hannah and I are impressed with how beautiful, clean and modern a city Vancouver is. We also walked by the Fairmont Hotel where the Glee actor died last week.
July 25, 2013
Thursday’s Clinic
Today was super busy. Maddie and I worked in the pharmacy together. It was super fun working side by side. The community that we served was called Victoria. They weren’t as poor as the other communities relatively speaking.
July 24, 2013
Zip lining
What an awesome day! Neither of us had ever zip lined before so since this whole experience is about going outside our box I signed us both up. There were 25 of us in our group. We did 13 different lines. I will be honest and admit I was quite scared before the first run. […]
July 24, 2013
Zip Lining in Ecuador
Courtesy of my good friend, Rafiq Karimi here’s a picture of our volunteers during a rest-day activity.
July 23, 2013
Me and Maddie
Here is a picture of Anne and Mads about to start working for the day at the clinic outside of Quito.
July 23, 2013
Area
Like I said before the area is very poor. The community has its own well and is in the process of digging and putting pipes into the ground so all homes can have running water. Since we worked at the fluoride and triage stations they were done before the others. We were given a walking […]
July 23, 2013
Assignments
Today Maddie and Zarrin were in charge of fluoride and hand washing. They brushed the children’s teeth with fluoride and gave a hand washing lesson as well as playing with them. I worked in triage taking blood pressure, temperature, height and weight.
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