Our Last "Full" Day!

In addition to yesterday, today was a pretty busy day. We went over to the Public Health Department today at noon to meet with Doreen Leavitt, the Director of Community Health. We discussed changes we might want to make to the program next year; and what has been the most influential experience so far in Barrow. After that we headed over to Kiita Alternative High School to teach a class of about fifteen students about community health and health careers. The students were pretty engaged and it just continued to feel good teaching as much as we could to whoever was interested about the importance of a healthy lifestyle. After that we went back to the college for about an hour and then FINALLY got to teach to the women at Arctic Women in Crisis, a women's and children's shelter for domestic abuse victims. We taught on stress reduction and relaxation techniques. It was a more difficult population to do health education with, but I think there was a lot they were able to take away from the presentation. I can't believe we leave tomorrow! I don't really even know to how mentally "wrap up" all that we've done here. It's been such an amazing experience with ups and downs just like any other place. I know that when I get back to Minnesota this will be such a valuable experience for me to look back on.