September 3, 2018 | Busy Bee Week My last week in Jamkhed was a complete whirlwind. I tagged along on community sessions in different villages almost every day, and I helped both the Adolescent Boys Program and the Adolescent Girls Program on the weekend (I’m just glad they were on different days). The Adolescent Programs are particularly tiring for […]

August 26, 2018 | I went to the Amazon on a gut feeling.  I knew that there were bounties of herbal knowledge to be found there, but didn’t really know how I would be able to apply it later, in the United States.  This internship provided me with the tools to survive (and even thrive) in the Napo province […]

August 26, 2018 | “What can I help with?” This week has been a full, hectic week of transition. The International Programs Manager left on Wednesday, and the other three students left on Thursday; so, in addition to village visits, the fellow and I spent most of our time adjusting to being the last two foreigners on campus. The […]

August 23, 2018 | Week 10 is finally here. What a ride it’s been! It may have been my last week here at Children’s Colorado, but that did not mean it was easy. On Monday I finally got the stats back for my project. Things went as expected none of our findings were statistically or clinically significant. While this […]

August 23, 2018 | (Featured image photo credit: John Gary Brown) This week was my last week at Creede Repertory Theatre, and that is a bittersweet feeling. I am definitely going to miss CRT and all of my friends here, but I am also very excited to get back to Cornell. This summer has been an amazing experience, one […]

August 20, 2018 | If You Want It Done Right, You Have to Do It Yourself A lot has happened in the last week. I finally completely recovered from my cold/throat infection and so I was able to start observing community sessions in addition to my other various projects. Observing the community sessions was more difficult than I initially […]

August 18, 2018 |   Last week at Ventures Yesterday I officially finished my internship at Ventures.  It was a bittersweet week, filled with both successes and also a few tears. It was great to finish up all of the projects I had been working on. I spent most of the week printing, laminating and putting up signage in the […]

August 14, 2018 | New Week New Projects This has been a very full and fun week. I have had some additional projects added to my workload that included making new registers for village diabetes information, transferring recorded information from the original registers into a secondary register as well as digital excel sheets, searching for possible grant opportunities for […]

August 13, 2018 | This week was the last week that my family was in town! They left on Wednesday, and I already miss them a lot. My cousin dragged me outside to do a hike, which was actually really nice. We did a hike called “The Up and Over,” and it was beautiful. We hiked up the hill […]

August 13, 2018 | This week was a big week. I started the presentation for my project and spend a lot of time with my fellow interns getting ready. The week started with a meeting with Patrick and Dr. De and figuring out I needed to do a little bit more data collection. Finally, on Wednesday data collection was […]