We
have been here for two months now and I can’t believe how fast things
are going by. Its sad to think that we will be leaving this amazing
place in just a month and a half. So much has changed since we have been
here. From my perspective on race and gender equality to my internship,
and I’m interested to see what will change next.
For
a while I was thinking what I would do if I didn’t get into the program
that I applied to at UConn. Fortunately I did get accepted to UConn’s
Exercise Science program, which I am really excited about. I was,
however, a little disappointed that I wouldn’t be able to go through
with my alternative plan. I thought that if I didn’t get into the
Exercise Science program I could then switch my major to Geographic
Information Systems (GIS), which would be quite a large change this far
in my schooling. Then after I graduate I could work for some sort of
company/government/
As
anticlimactic doing research or PT sounds compared to a mountaineer who
got paid to go around and map the wilderness I still feel like I will
enjoy what I get into. While I was working in the lab at UConn last
summer and fall I really enjoyed helping out with the studies they were
doing and I really wanted to learn more about them. And I could still do
what I love in the wilderness on my weekends and vacations.
As
for back here is Cape Town, my internship placement has changed to
Eros, which is a school for mainly physically disabled children. Since a
good amount of the children have Cerebral Palsy there is always
something that needs to be done. We take some of the kids, who are able,
around on modified tricycles just to get them moving. Then today we
created an obstacle course that was designed to pretty much give the
kids a full body workout and make them tired.
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