Day 26(1/28/18) *Geneva*

With bittersweet emotions, I'm writing my reflection for the last day of this course: day 26. What an adventure it has been; full of exciting new experiences, creative and flexible travel planning, inspiring speakers and contacts, beautiful sights and sounds, and, of course, Swiss chocolate :)

Well, to start off the last day here, Olivia, Aidan, Hannah, and I all went to Sunday mass where the Ole alum Lutheran pastor who had us to dinner a few nights ago was preaching...it was a very simple little church in the middle of old town, so a nice walk through the city as well to reminisce about all of the memories we all made here. I realised that I hadn't been to mass since the trip began, and so going again was very much welcome. We stayed for a few minutes afterwards in order to chat with his wife and him, but had to sneak out pretty quickly to make it back to John Knox for individual presentations. They were very interesting today(as they have been on previous days as well); we heard about Genome research, firearm safety, flu predicting, health inequities/ER primary care, and malnutrition/intestinal worms. I also had my presentation today, which you might have guessed, from previous journal entries, was about pregnancy in prisons-I think I'll use the presentation as a template moving forward for next semester's project! I'm happy this course was a way to start that process as well.

After our presentations, it was off to our final dinner together as a class…it was at a great Italian place, where I ate enough pasta to last me through breakfast tomorrow at least 😂 and Kelsey and I shared a delicious delicious piece of tiramisu. It really put the “sweet” on the “bittersweet” aspect of tonight being our last night.

After packing and taking a quick shower, it’s time for one last night in the John Knox centre before our 6:15am departure…it’ll be sad to leave this beautiful city of Geneva with mountains surrounding us, but I’m also very much excited to go and see my Polish family tomorrow as interim break begins! It’s been a few years since I’ve seen them, and also since I’m still feeling a bit sick, there’s nothing quite like family to make me feel better!

I’ll update the blog one last time from Poland, so this isn’t the last goodnight yet :) 

Goodnight!
-Anna

Last class dinner

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