The Journey Begins

It’s June 2^nd. Which means that I am sitting at the airport drinking my chai and listening to the continuous announcement of “por razones de seguridad el equipaje desatendido sera inspeccionado y destruido…” I am slowly learning to not hear it… I wanted to write this here since I never got a chance to update on the orientation. It was actually a stressful one week for me. I was sick all week and trying to push myself to go to go to bed at decent hours and waking up early wasn’t so easy. Overall though I thought it was great meeting Dr. Martin and having meetings with her and Dr. Campbell. They are both really strong and knowledgeable women. I think I can safely say that they are two of my roles models. The research project seems more intense than I originally imagined it to be. Not having seen a dead body before it’s hard for me to imagine how I would react going to death scenes, performing autopsies, etc. I have been trying to do a lot of reading in the area so that I am somehow professionally prepared for such scenes. Emotionally though, I can’t think of how I could prepare myself. What I have been trying to do is predicting what I would feel and thus far I am forecasting anger and appreciation. I just hope my feelings of appreciation overwhelm those of my anger ones. Right now I am sad, happy, nervous, excited, and tired of feeling so many different emotions. I am also not really looking forward the long journey ahead but I think it’ll be good for me to think about everything. Greg got me the book “Mountains Beyond Mountains” so I will be reading that and wishing that I was Paul Farmer. Inspirations like that help me tremendously in driving me more and more forward. I will be writing more in other airports.