Cusco, Peru: NUR111 Cultural Competency & Health Spring 2016

Lessons Learned (or reinforced)

• Two hour layovers are not long enough
  • Corollary:  All flights should be direct
• Free food improves morale
• Almost everyone can laugh at almost anything
• Sometimes, even the non-hugger has to hug
• Listen
• "They" are "us"
• There's always more you can do to help
• The level of risk Peruvian's live with is astonishing

Experiences

• Worked in Santa Rosa public health clinic
• Toured the public hospital
• Toured Inca ruins
• Learned to salsa dance (surprisingly!)
• Climbed Machu Picchu
• Ate cuy
  
• Zip lined in the Sacred Valley of the Inca's
• Survived a variety of re-routed flights
  • Corollary:  Visited all three Americas

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