Well, it's hard to believe I'm almost on my way to exploring 3 of 27 countries that start with "S" (hence the title of this blog). For those of you who don't know or don't remember, I will be wwoofing in Sweden and Spain from July 10-October 23, and then my parents are going to meet me in Spain and spend a week with me there. After that I will be coming home to go to lots of medical school interviews in November and December, if all goes well. Finally, I'll be leaving for Cape Town, South Africa in early January and will be working in a physical therapist's office there for six months. I'm getting my job placement there through a group called Experiential Learning International. These are my plans as they stand, I will try and keep up to date as I figure more things out.
As my time at home with my family begins to wind down, I'm getting very excited about this trip, but also more and more nervous. This is the first time I have ever organized a trip of this magnitude on my own, and my parents have done a wonderful job of putting the fear of God (and Russian sex traffickers) in me. Beyond the physical risks my parents are worried about, these four months are going to include a lot of "me" time, which I'm little nervous is going to drive me nuts. Hopefully, I will instead come back with a new found understanding of myself and self-assurance.
I'll warn everyone reading this blog, I'm not the best journal keeper, so I cannot promise consistency or deep insights, especially not before the rest of my medical school applications are done. But keep with me, and I promise to reward you with some interesting tidbits along the way. Part of this experience is that I get to learn about organic farming and organic lifestyles, and I would love to pass the knowledge along to anyone who is interested, so feel free to let me know if you have any questions I could ask my hosts on your behalf. Even if you don't care one bit about organic farming, I'd love to hear what is going on in your lives. See you in Sweden!
