June 13, 2018

EC Scholar checks in from Greece

Rising junior EC Scholar Ananya Koripella (B.S. Public Health Studies, B.A Hispanic Studies) checks from her summer travel after completing a medical fellowship in Greece:
Rising junior EC Scholar Ananya Koripella during her medical fellowship in Greece this summer.

Rising junior EC Scholar Ananya Koripella during her medical fellowship in Greece this summer.

“As you know, I stayed in Athens for three weeks as part of the Atlantis Program. I was shadowing doctors at three different hospitals. It was so much fun! I saw different things from a coronary artery bypass to a live birth and c-sections to orthopedic tumor removals to pediatric refugee patients who had measles and chicken pox! I met all kinds of different people too. There was a patient from Romania who had the most interesting stories and used to live literally 20 minutes from Count Dracula’s castle and now I really want to go there so bad. He had pins in his hand because he crushed two fingers in an accident and didn’t even flinch one bit when the doctor was pulling them out.

Rising junior EC Scholar Ananya Koripella enjoys some free time while in Greece for a medical fellowship.

Rising junior EC Scholar Ananya Koripella enjoys some free time while in Greece for a medical fellowship.

I’ve had more gyros and souvlaki than I can count; Tzatziki Sauce in Greece >>>>>> Tzatziki Sauce in the USA! I got to go to a lot of different places too! Literally, a half hour after I arrived at my apartment in Athens, my project coordinator took us all the way up to the Acropolis to see the Parthenon. The program took us to Sounion, a coastal city where the Temple of Poseidon is located. They also took us to Delphi known for the Temple of Apollo and the Oracle. On our own, the other fellows and I went to Aegina, one of the islands of Greece and to the Mykonos. I had a wonderful, wonderful time! There is still so much left on my list of stuff I want to see and places I want to go to, I’m definitely going to go back to Greece when I can! I’ve got over a thousand pictures on my laptop that I took with my Canon camera, I’ll definitely show you some more when I see you both in August!

Ciao for now!”

Rising junior EC Scholar Ananya Koripella in Greece this summer.

Rising junior EC Scholar Ananya Koripella in Greece this summer.