
Shawnda: Final thoughts
August 5, 2011So…by the end of this trip I expected to be certain of which career path I was choosing and to be a different person. I’m not sure if either worked out according to plan.
I think if anything, I have been assured that I am equally, and increasingly, passionate about medicine and public health. I can see myself playing critical roles in both disciplines. So, in the last month I have left of summer, I need to decide which death test I am going further in to debt for.
I think I have yet to change many of my beautiful qualities:
- I still manage to crave and drink massive amounts of coffee
- I still have a ridiculous amount of dirty laundry; this time I’m still wearing it
- I still hate spiders and feet
- I am still obsessed with searching iTunes, and will go to drastic measures to do it
- I’m still pale.
What has changed?
- I like baths; preferably with 2 inches of hot water
- I can fall asleep before 1 am
Some of the luxuries I missed from home:
- Non-bran cereal
- Not-rooibos tea
- Pilot G-2 pens
- A ridiculously large selection of notebooks
- Blending in
- Not being proposed to or told if my skin were darker, I would look like a Motswana with a “nice African figure”
What will I miss?
- Street food
- The exchange rate
- Cheap groceries
- Combis
- Safaris
- Being greeted by everyone
- Speaking Setswana
- Walking everywhere
- Fatcakes, samp, pap, man sized lunch bars, and Toppers
- Bull & Bush nights
- Monkeys eating our food
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