Tuesday December 23, 2014 The last two weeks of my internship at Asian Liver Center (ALC) have come to a close. It was a strange way to end, with people gradually leaving here and there; a drawn-out series of small goodbyes. The first goodbye kind of hit me unexpectedly, it felt too soon and as if I’d be seeing them again after the...
Thursday September 12, 2014 Palo Alto, California On the road, San Francisco They say you should never start by describing the weather, but I’m going to start this post by describing the weather. We’re having the “worst storms since 1988”, schools have allegedly been closed due to flash flooding and cars are clogging up the big highways like blocked plumbing. It’s kind of...
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3 for Life - Week 2/3 at Asian Liver Center (ALC) Wednesday, December 4, 2014 Brick-red rooftops of the buildings at Stanford, seen from Hoover Tower Thanksgiving came and went in a blur of turkey, pumpkin pie and online sales. Meanwhile, I had been taking a break from ALC, which was closed for the thanksgiving weekend. Things had gotten a little quiet at...
Saturday November 23, 2014 - Palo Alto Partly on impulse, and partly to prove to myself that I could do it, I applied for an internship halfway across the world in a place I knew virtually nothing about. Like many naïve, idealistic young people, I had been inspired by stories from other idealistic young people who had travelled the world and returned enlightened...
Friday, September 19 - Karkar Island Our time on Karkar Island ended not with a bang, but a whisper. The morning began on a hopeful note. The weather was calm and beautiful. Over a breakfast of tropical fruit, we chatted about marine wildlife on Karkar. Brett was telling us about what they had encountered in the waters - green and leatherback turtles to sharks...
