As our week in Nelspruit came to an end, and I felt both physically and emotionally drained. Hopping from one department to the next at the Rob Ferreira hospital, I was able to spend time in the medical wards, the surgery theaters, the psych ward, the pediatrics ward, and the occupational therapy center. While the work done in each department differed, they all had one thing in common: a severe lack of resources.
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do…
– Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Culture is a phenomena that can be very hard to describe. I attempted to take a communications class, “defining culture,” and admittedly, dropped after the first week. I like to think of culture, when it must be defined, as things that make people stand apart.
A Comprehensive List of Some Differences Between Berlin and Los Angeles
1. Groceries are incredibly cheap!
Around the end of the program, I was really starting to get into sort of a funk. My work schedule was becoming a little mundane, very repetitive.
Today I was looking through old tweets from a few years ago. I do this because I consider myself funny (for the most part) and like to remember what I was thinking about and how I was feeling at that moment in time.
Crank! The airplane seat behind me screeches back. Like, all the way back. All of a sudden, my TV, aptly enough, playing old reruns of Curb Your Enthusiasm (Bum, Bum, Bum) becomes full screen and in my face. Big sigh. Especially since this wasn’t a normal airplane.
There are truly no words to explain the Chatracas (Waterfalls) de Iguazú! My friends and I had a fantastic time. This will be an experience that I’ll remember forever. We traveled with Bais, a company in Argentina that organizes amazing trips to places all over Latin America. We were on the bus for about 18 hours! So, when we reached the hostel, all we wanted to do was to take a long, hot shower and go to sleep.
