So I leave tomorrow morning at 5:30 am to head to the beach! I'm attending a medical symposium in Newport with pretty much all my classmates. I will be sharing a room with a bunch of friends, and I'm so looking forward to it! We are required to attend a lecture for extended education credit, so I'm going to three. :) In case you care, I'm attending: Body Fluids, Infectious Diseases, and NW Medical Teams in Mali, Africa.
I'm most looking forward to the NW Medical Teams lecture because it is something that I've been wanting to do for a long time now. I've always wanted to go overseas and use my talents to help people, but it's never really seemed feasible (especially since my hubby isn't really into that kind of thing). But there is a lady at my church who is a coordinator for NW Medical Teams and now I'm super excited about the possibility of going overseas! They mostly do short-term trips, about 2-4 weeks long.
As a Medical Technologist, I'd probably be doing a lot more tropical medicine type stuff (looking for parasites etc), because I'm not sure how much chemistry you can really do in a 3rd world country. There is a lot of reagents and stuff for each test, I can't see it being really feasible! But that's ok, because I love parasites, it's so much fun learning about them.
Anyway, I've decided that I'd love to take at least one trip a year for two weeks or so to do this. Just thinking about going to some random country like Mali makes me super happy (By the way, the Putamayo Presents: Mali album is awesome. I got it this past summer and is so much fun to listen to, if you like world music...).
I'll be back on Saturday.
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