• Project Updates

    Mobile Health Unfortunately, I put this project on hold in July to be able to do the other projects. I revised the surveys to fix some of the wording, but was not collecting data or investigating the logistics of implementing an SMS-based mHealth program. I returned to my project last week (7/30), beginning with talking …

  • Weekend Adventure: Sunday 7/21

    Though we had originally planned to go visit Project Heart for the weekend, Jillian wanted to do something more fun for her and Derek’s last weekend in the Dominican Republic. She and I both looked into where we could go for a day trip adventure, but mostly came up empty-handed. I really wanted to go …

  • Week 5 (Monte Plata –> Las Terrenas)

    For the past few weeks, my project has been on hold. Jillian, Derek and I took on the task of cleaning out and reorganizing the storeroom, which is very large and was filled with boxes of Stuff. There was a method to the madness, but there were many boxes of donated personal hygiene items, supplies, …

  • Week 4 (Monte Plata–>Santo Domingo)

    Monday I spent most of the day observing the nursing area with Jillian. During a time when there were no patients, I had a really uncomfortable talk with one of the nurses, Altagracia, about religion and creationism/evolution. She went through disbelief (Her Spanish isn’t perfect, maybe she didn’t understand the question) then shock (How could …