Andrew & Cristina

It’s been a while since my last post. We’re now almost half way through second semester and looking forward to visiting both Ecuador and the US this winter. It should be interesting because we’re cramming all this travelling into two weeks. I thought I’d never get sick and tired of flying but this might be it for me.

I must say I have not yet learned to love the island. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not really that bad and 20 months are totally doable on this tiny rock. But it doesn’t feel like home at all. It feels so temporary and I can’t help but obsess about the next stage in our lives. I’m talking about the clinical rotations he’ll have to do once we return to the States.

There are at least 72 weeks of various rotations that are mostly set up by the school’s rotation coordinator. I’m really not used to having things not under my control and this will be an exercise in patience and trust. Not one day passes that I don’t think about how many times we’ll have to move and how we should best schedule every single rotation. It’s maddening because I’m not a laid back person at all and having all this free time at my disposal tends to lead to pointless planning and obsessing over things I have almost no control over.

I’m off to do my weekly grocery shopping. Now THAT I can control.