A Good Pace

For my second week at NatO (not my abbreviation haha) I continued my work on making country profiles for the new PSFP countries and also began looking for an online project management software for the interns to try out and eventually expand to the national office.

Right now Globemed pretty much runs on google docs and email, and a good project management software could streamline our work here. Since we knew next to nothing about this we ended up spending most of the work figuring this out.

We eventually narrowed it down to a few and will be trial running one called manymoon this coming week. (affectionately referred to as Mandy Moore). Anyways I’ll blog some more later. Imma tryin fix this Internet right meow.

So now that my first week has gone by (and some change), I’ll update you guys on what I’ve been up to. A few posts back I told you guys a little bit about GlobeMed, but just as a refresher it is a student run organization that is fighting global health inequities by forming partnerships with GRASS roots organizations in developing countries. It catalyzes the energy and ingenuity of undergraduates across the nation to form a movement to fight for social justice. It is also quickly becoming a pipeline for students to grow and become leaders in the new public health field. This quick explanation may sound slogan-esque but it is for a reason, it’s true and the best way I know of explaining it.

The past 6 months a we sent a team to travel throughout South East Asia, mainly Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand to look for new partner organizations to match with the 15 new chapters we just recieved. My job this past week and this coming week was to research information on these countries and use the data our Partner Search Fellows gathered to create short pamphlets to give to each new chapter so they can find the NGO that is right for them. So far we have done a good bit of research and made a standard template to plug in the information to, as well as other stuff around the office.

The past week, I stayed at a place around Wriggleyville and I just moved recently to a pretty nice house in Evanston. I have more work to do, but I will keep everybody updated. Until next time.

Also for more information on GlobeMed please visit:

http://www.globemed.org/

or

http://www.imagine2030.org/

Hey everyone,

I know it’s been a while since I had a blog post and I’ve been way busy. I got back to Tennessee on Saturday and spent the rest of my week getting over jet lag and spending a lot of time with friends and family. The week went by way to fast and now I am on a flight heading to Evanston Ill, where I will be spending the majority of the rest of my summer.

I have an internship with GlobeMed at their national office, which is based out of Northwestern. For those of you who don’t read my blog that much or don’t know me that well, GlobeMed is an undergraduate organization that I have been increasingly involved in during my college career. Each chapter works with a GRASS roots organization from around the world to help fight for social justice and better health care for people living in poverty. 

Some of you may recall last summer when I had their internship to work in Nicaragua with Rhodes’ partner AMOS Salud y Esperanza. Now I am looking forward to another exciting summer with them and I will be sure to post more about what I am doing later (along with my last few posts from my travels in Europe). If you want to learn more about GlobeMed I strongly encourage you to check out our website at http://www.globemed.org/ .  

Every time you meet people or get to know them for any significant moment, you always get something back. You get something that you take with you for the next time you experience something new.

But when you meet people and grow and learn with them for certain amount of time the goodbyes become emotionally exhausting. Graduating from high school was one event that made these facts real and sure there are still some people you keep in touch with but there are always those people who you meant to and never did.

That’s why goodbyes suck the most for me, because there’s always that fear that someone who has become so familiar ends up a stranger again. We vow that it won’t happen but there is always that chance. Everyday the past few days has been an exhausting last goodbye and it has been crazy but I’m sure this is only a preview of graduation next year as well.

Like I said you take something with you from every good friendship you have that makes you who you are and becomes a part of you. But eventually the more goodbyes you say you wonder if the investment is worth it, another great fear is that with time the human interaction gets undervalued because of this. I obviously don’t think this is true, it’s just getting emotionally annoying, especially when you aren’t sure you will see any of these people again.

I will miss Barcelona a lot, but a beautiful place is only as amazing as the people who fill it and as more and more people leave I’m ready to see old friends and wait for the moments I see my new friends again.

So here’s looking at you Barcelona and Spain, and thank you all my friends for being apart of another ridiculous chapter of my life.