¡Voy a Perú!

My original and ideal plan for this coming summer was to prepare myself for medical school. I was hoping to go to the University of Minnesota for another four years, or else move to another city for school such as Chicago, Boston, or Washington D.C. That plan didn't work out for me, and as I've heard from just about everybody, "Everything happens for a reason." That phrase gets pretty annoying, as you only hear it when something bad happens. I guess it may be for the best though, as now I have the opportunity to travel to Lima, Peru to conduct research, volunteer, teach English lessons, as well as (hopefully!) becoming fluent in Spanish.

The plan right now is to travel down sometime around May 20, which is just a week after my "final final" as an undergrad. When I arrive I will be taking Spanish classes and having my sister show me the ropes. My sister, Katie, currently lives in Lima right now and will be there until the end of May. You can follow her travel blog on her blog. When I went down to visit her with my other sister, Annie, in January, I never thought that I'd be coming back down so soon to live there! The tentative plan is to come back in the middle of November for med school interviews, Thanksgiving and Christmas, and even catch the final weekend of deer season! If my research is going well, I will plan on going back after New Years and stay there until next May, when I will need to be around for Katie and Seth's wedding!

Once I know more, I will fill you in with details but for now, plan on saving up and coming to visit me this Summer or Fall!

That's all for now.