IES Santiago offers an internship course that requires at least 90 hours of work with your internship and a few fieldwork journal entries for the seminar portion. As part of the global studies major at UNC I have a public health and environment theme, so I requested a public health related internship. I am an intern for the School of Public Health of the University of Chile. I work with a few supervisors whom help me enrich my knowledge of public health in two ways.

Sorry for the long lapse in posts, my computer was stolen and blogging has not been foremost in my mind of late. I had taken care to have my computer in a classroom with other computers and to conceal it, but it was stolen while I was on a short field trip. As such, all of my research and data for the semester has disappeared as well, and so I have been frantically trying to catch up over the past weeks.

Guess what I did last weekend. I hiked the highest mountain in North Africa: Toubkal. It’s a 13,671 ft peak in the middle of Morocco, part of the Atlas mountains. It was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done.

Now, I’m not much of a hiker, and I’ve lived my whole life at sea-level. Neither of these things were good preparation for this mountain. But my friends convinced me to go, so we hired a guide, packed up a mule, and headed up.

While taking a break from writing about overfishing in the Galápagos for my environmental studies final paper, I figured I ought to write another blog post. The most exciting thing to happen since I last wrote was probably my trip to Cusco, Perú.