My Travel Blog

Second day at City Impact's health clinic. Today was a busy day at the health clinic, with many patients walking in for check-ups. Because of this, I was asked to help out a bit more around the clinic. I helped clean up, check in patients, and helped get anything a patient needed. I learned how to take someone's vitals- how to take someone's blood pressure, temporal temperature, and how to decide if a person has a regular or irregular heartbeat. During free time, I was able to practice on the other volunteer that was at City Impact with me. I really enjoyed learning this because it was more hands-on and was a skill that I could directly use in real life.

As today was my first full day in San Francisco, I decided to go to the Asian Art Museum first instead of the planned Legion of Honor/de Young Museum. The Asian Art Museum is located at 200 Larkin Street, across from the San Francisco City Hall building. The building itself is grand and impressive, with a large Asian-style statue in the front of its main entrance. I started looking at exhibits on the third floor. The museum is organized in chronological order, starting with the oldest art on the third floor. Having taken Asian Philosophy last semester, I was super excited to be able to learn even more about these cultures. There were a couple takeaways from the Asian Art Museum: I found it interesting how all the Eastern cultures had influenced each other in some way, yet each culture made their own "spin" on the art. For example, as Buddhism spread across the continent and made its way into various countries, artworks portraying Buddha followed. Thai-style statues o

First day of volunteering at City Impact! On my first day, I shadowed Dr. Clifford Lau, the doctor at the health clinic. Since a smaller amount of patients came in, I had some time to chat with Dr. Lau. I learned about how his faith influenced how he treated his patients, like how he does his absolute best to show love to each one of his patients, no matter how difficult they might be. Dr. Lau goes above his required duties as a doctor. He tries to make sure to take a couple minutes to ask each patient how they're doing emotionally or in their personal life, and listens to them. Many of the patients that come into the health clinic at City Impact live on the fringes of society, so the fact that Dr. Lau treated them with such dignity and respect really humbled and touched me. Too often, when people talk about doctors, one of the first things mentioned is about the typical "higher" salary. But it's too easy to forget that the heart of a doctor should be of a servi