A Journey to the Land Southward

I received an email from our program director along with the rest of our class for an opportunity to apply for a scholarship to go and perform anesthesia in Peru. The scholarship was being offered by an anesthetist that belonged to a humanitarian service organization called Idaho Condor. If we were interested in going we were to submit a one page essay on why we should be chosen to go. I submitted my essay with little hope that I would be selected. The submission date came and went without any indication as to who had been selected. I was on a break at the hospital in Payson and happened to check my email. I had been selected. I could not believe it. The email was short and succinct. He congratulated me on being selected and told me that more information was forthcoming.  He said that I should plan on working ten hours a day but promised me that the experience would change my life. I know little more now than I did then. You can look up the website for the organization at idahocondor.org. There are pictures from the 2010 trip and I think that it works the same way. There is one day that they spend in Machu Picchu and then go to Cusco and set up for surgery. I will post more information as soon as I get it.