Headed to Cape Town!

Tomorrow I head to Cape Town.  As most of you know, I’m interested in public health and going to medical school in August.  Before I head to school, I have to get some traveling out of my system—I have a rather irrational fear that after med school I’m going to be so broke and indebted to banks and government and parents that I will never travel again.  So here’s to making the most of the next seven months!

For the first two months, I’ll be interning at Crossroads Community Health Center in the Crossroads township outside of Cape Town.  I am eager to gain exposure to South Africa’s health care system and its treatments for infectious disease and maternal health.  After the internship, I’ve got a blank slate.  I want to make the most out of my current freedom and be open and flexible, so if you have any suggestions, shoot them my way—I’m thinking Southeast Asia.

In the meantime, I’ll keep you up to date on what’s happening in Cape Town.  If you’ve made it this far and you’re not related to me, congrats, I’ll try not to bore you. 

Side note: I started (and stopped) this blog about a year and a half ago when I lived and worked in DC and thought I was interesting and novel.  I like to believe that I have greater self awareness and realize that I am not as witty and appreciated as I so naively assumed.   Feel free to read past entries—hope you get a good laugh.