Saturday, March 21, 2009

Jack of all trades, master of none.

Those words do well to describe the progression of my life. I high school, I ran cross country, and in track I did the 1500m, the high jump, pole vault, and the 400m, never settling on one at which I was best. I also played lacrosse, rowed on the crew team, and started a rugby club. That's just sports we're talking about...

So, when I decided that I would become a physician and specialize in biological science, it was a big deal.

But since then I've been the (elected) president of a Chinese culture club, a full time waiter, a photographer, a poet, an a teacher. I lived in Guatemala, China's Zejiang province, and, currently the southern highlands of Tanzania. In college, I did research in cell biology, but that hardly made me a specialist.

I was terrible at physics in college. I never took the course in high school (AP bio instead), and my algebraic reasoning ability was pretty much shot when I started the course junior year. Now I teach physics, but I'm not likely to become an engineer, until maybe, I finally get the hang of calculus. I'm an electrician now too.

Asi es la vida, hivyo ilivyo