Lima, Perú. Wednesday, June 22, 2016.
Our lecture today focused on non-communicable disease (NCD) burden in global health. Our topics of discussion addressed how, and under what optimal conditions, many infectious diseases are largely preventable. However, NCDs are much harder to prevent because they are more related to the individual-level preventative risks and their duration can vary based on treatment.
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Lima, Perú. Monday, June 20, 2016.
It was Monday morning. My first day of class for the Global Health Program at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, the hosting university where we were going to have lectures while in Lima. The campus was 10 minutes walking from our hotel. Throughout the program, it became a ritual to meet everyone downstairs in the dining hall where we had the same food available to us everyday, but somehow we managed to enjoy it on the daily. Since it was the first day, we decided to walk to the campus in big groups to avoid getting lost and in effort to there on time. Lima, Perú. Saturday, June 19, 2016.
Our plane landed around 10:30am and a gloomy gray sky welcomed us to Lima, Peru. Although fresh, the weather was not as cold as I thought it would be. We were given forms by Peruvian immigration officials to fill out, specifically asking for the items and amount of money we were bringing into the country. I was not too concern with the process since I was with other program participants. I felt comfortable to know that we were all going through this new experience together. However, I recognized the every one of us came with different levels of experience traveling abroad which is important as we supported each other through this learning process. Los Angeles, CA. Monday June 18, 2016. “You have to catch a flight, so let me know when you have to go," mentioned my mentor for Riordan Programs College to Career at around 12:30pm as we talked over lunch. That night too, I was flying to Peru for my Travel Study Global Health Program in Lima, Peru. I had not thought about it much. It was rather other people asking me what I was doing after I completed College to Careers — if I was taking summer classes, had an internship or was going home for the summer. But really, it was this travel study program. Matter of fact, 6 months ago, it never crossed my mind to go abroad, especially in Peru. |