{"id":1554,"date":"2014-02-26T10:37:09","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T17:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuabroad\/?p=1554"},"modified":"2016-02-02T17:09:27","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T00:09:27","slug":"facing-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuabroad\/facing-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"Facing Fears"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alejandra Marquez Loza recently graduated from Oregon State University<\/a> with an Honors B.S. in Bioresource Research<\/a> and a minor in Chemistry. During her final term (Fall 2013) as an OSU student, Alejandra received a scholarship from IE3 Global Internships<\/a> and interned <\/em>with Child Family Health International (CFHI)<\/a> in South Africa.
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Fear is temporary, but regret is forever. That was the slogan for the Bloukrans bungee jumping advertisements that really got me to just go for it. Prior to arriving there I really did not think I would actually jump off the highest bungee in the world! Once there however, I just thought back to all my initial fears of what being in South Africa might be like, and how none of my worries had proven to be true. Just as I had conquered those initial worries and worked so hard to overcome the obstacles it took to be interning in Africa, I felt I could not pass up the opportunity to conquer another fear. I decided to jump. The first 2 seconds felt like the most terrifying moments of my life but afterwards came a strange calm followed by an extreme adrenaline rush. I was on the top of the world. I felt that if I had conquered that initial fear, I could really do anything I set my mind to.<\/p>\n

During the ten weeks I spent in South Africa on rotations at hospitals, clinics and outside of work I found that the moments where I learned the most were when I placed myself outside my comfort zone and took leaps of faith with uncertainties. Cape Town and Durban were not what I imagined before arriving there but far exceeded any expectations I had. I learned to plan for things to go as unplanned and embrace the moments of discomfort. There were often little fears I had to overcome when I felt hesitant about approaching a doctor, answering questions during ward rounds, or starting up conversations with patients in my limited Zulu or Afrikaans. Despite my initial hesitations, I always felt it was well worth it when, to my surprise, it was such simple acts like those that taught me something valuable or that sparked long-lasting relationships.<\/p>\n

Follow the link below to Alejandra’s original entry on the IE3 Field Notes Blog: http:\/\/ie3global.ous.edu\/blog\/comments\/1364\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alejandra Marquez Loza recently graduated from Oregon State University with an Honors B.S. in Bioresource Research and a minor in Chemistry. During her final term (Fall 2013) as an OSU student, Alejandra received a scholarship from IE3 Global Internships and interned with Child Family Health International (CFHI) in South Africa. Fear is temporary, but regret… Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":646,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1163952,1163959,1163948],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ie3-global-internships","category-returnee","category-university-honors-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/646"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1554"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1585,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions\/1585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}