New Blog, New Adventures

For those of you who have known me for years, you might have read a couple of my posts from my last blog, www.tailsofafrica.blogspot.com. Unfortunately, because my next adventure (the one I leave for in 3 hours) is in Asia, the tails I will be seeing and the tales I will be telling will be of a different nature. Thus, here we are, at a new blog for a new adventure... and for future ones to come. I plan to share the silly things - small day-to-day observations that might make you laugh or cringe or thank your lucky stars you're at home! And, I plan to share big things - the ones that make you feel frustrated, or thankful, or inspired. But most of all, I just want to share my experiences with those I love.

And so, I am ready and packed to start my three and a half month journey! Here is the basic outline for my time to come:

First, I will be traveling to Thailand for 2 weeks with Aubrey who I haven't seen in 3 months. After the most stressful summer of my life - MCAT and O-Chemx2 - we're going to have some much needed R&R on the beach for the first couple of days. Then, it will be north to Chiang Mai for fun with elephants and tigers!!

After we say our goodbyes, to start another 3 months on different continents, I will head back to Delhi, India. There, I will be doing research for the Public Health Foundation of India (www.phfi.org) in the field of animal-human viral transmission. The semester of field work fulfills 5-course requirement within my program - Global Health Specialization within a Bachelor of Health Sciences. So... I will be working, and getting school credit! WOOO! Unfortunately, full tuition is still being paid :(.

Based on the fact that I wrote my MCAT two days ago, I haven't really allowed myself the time necessary to process the fact that I'm leaving. I am excited really, that's all I can say. I hope to share with you my adventures the best I can.

And I'm off... like a herd of yurdles!