01. A New Journey Begins

01. A New Journey Begins

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust This is a lot of things. Its my first update to my website in over 2 years since I released Sceyence.  In this way, its an attempt to retain a connection to my music life which has always kept my heart beating inside, but has slowly dissolved on the internet since I started medical school in 2012.  This is also my first blog post on a new trip I am taking.  This trip is work and vacation.  Thus my words here will hopefully be enlightening and fun.  I also suspect that I will do a lot of introspection, and show my feelings and beliefs, exposing myself.  I am going on this trip alone.  Unlike El Salvador and Kenya, there are no classmates joining me.  There is no orientation.  This is both terrifying and liberating. To start, if you’d like to, please see my blog posts from the month I spent working at a children’s hospital at Moi University in Eldoret Kenya with the AMPATH Consortium. My experiences in Kenya certainly have shaped the mindset I have now. I drafted out 2 very rough blog posts last month, and I’ll just lump them in here with this introduction.  I do apologize in advance that much of my writing will be stream-of-consciousness-esque often lacking refinement – a byproduct of my impatience with sitting in front of a computer screen. —— November 13th, 2016 “Trying not to think about my board exam” I have a board exam scheduled for 9 hours tomorrow, which makes this not the...