3/5/14. A little about us and preparations.

This is Gopi, Jeffery, Carli, Katie and Maggie. We are, respectively, two Physical Therapy students and three Occupational Therapy students from Shenandoah University. We are all in our second year of our Masters programs. 

For the past few years, both of our masters programs have sent groups to Haiti for the Global Experiential Learning Program. Almost five months ago, we got the news that we were selected to participate in the GEL and that we would complete our fieldwork in Haiti.  Since then, we have been preparing for our international travel. We've had several meetings to plan for the trip. The last couple weeks have been filled with forms, immunizations, packing lists, creole med terms, itineraries, scrub-buying and sunscreen acquisition.

Here are all of the donations that we gathered together to bring with us to Haiti. We were a little worried that we wouldn't be able to fit it all into these 2 suitcases that we are going to check. Somehow we managed to cram all of those supplies in! It was kind of fun :)

Now we have 2 more days until we take off! We're so excited and there is so much left to do!