Hi everyone!
Let me preface this post by saying that I am a blog virgin and I apologize if I lack the necessary blogging skills :) Anyways, I will be leaving August 17th for the Dominican Republic. I dont have all of the deets yet but I do know that I will be working as a Health Care Extentionist. I will not find out exactly what I will be doing until I complete my training in the DR (August 18th- October 28th). However, I have been told that I will be working on 1) educating young people to practice safe sex and prevent HIV/AIDS transmission, 2) Improving mothers nutritional practices to reduce malnutrition among children under five, and 3) improving reproductive health practices among women living in small rural villages. I am so excited to work on reproductive health because that is EXACTLY what I wanted! Oh, I also wont find out where exactly in the DR I will be serving until after training. So I will have to keep y'all posted!
In the meantime I am just finishing up my last couple of classes at Tulane, working on my spanish (I speak like suchhhhh a white girl), and figuring out how I am going to pack two years worth of stuff in 80lbs. Lets just say I brought 100lbs home for Christmas... and that was only a month.
Start planning your visits :)
miss you. love you. mean it.
Amanda "Mookie" Mae Appel
