Day 1 of Spring Quarter:
My “break” was a whirlwind two-week tour. 36 hours in transit from Dhaka, Bangladesh to Denver, Colorado left me more jet-lagged than the trip over, and plopped me smack dab in the middle of colder weather, higher altitudes and the most blown-out, hyper-commercialized, uber-Americana week of the year. Jingle bells, Christmas trees and new techy ads flooded my senses, and providing a rather confused mind as I tried to reflect on all that I had just seen in the last month in Bangladesh.
Christmas with family and New Year’s with friends, and many mornings sleeping in while snow fell outside has left me feeling … only a bit refreshed. Somehow January 3rd arrived quickly and I find myself back in the Korbel Cyber cafe reading syllabi and ordering textbooks. The procrastination already feels heavy on my shoulders and lists are beginning to pile up in my planner.
For the first two weeks, the cohort is taking a Global Health course to culminate the Health conference we attended last fall and health projects we visited in Bangladesh. After that, we’ll be taking Development Project Analysis and Statistics… oh la la. I’ve also opted to overwhelm myself with an extra course (mostly because its free), in Population, Environment and Development in Latin America. As my keen interest in Environment and Agriculture makes itself more prevalent day to day, I am quite eager to begin this course.
Until soon…
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