After being home for hardly any longer than two weeks, I started the long trip back down to So Cal again. The one perk that broke the trip up for me was picking up my graduation gift to myself in Sacramento- a 2002 Subaru Impreza WRX. Coming back to Loma Linda after a six-month hiatus was quite the whirlwind of catching up with friends and getting ready for all the formalities of graduation. I spent part of the week jumping back on the work circuit as a health consultant out in Beverly Hills and Santa Monica for Health Solutions, Inc again. In the middle of all the chaos surrounding graduation, it was so special to be able to spend some much-needed time with my good friends, Heidi and Lauralen.
Graduation weekend (June 13-15) was packed to the max with a very nice Baccalaureate service at the Loma Linda University Church, the School of Public Health banquet for the handful of my classmates that were able to make it back to the States for graduation exercises, getting to see Lauralen receive her Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy and then finally receiving my Masters in Public Health for Global Health late on Sunday evening. It meant so much to me to have my parents and sister fly in to attend the ceremony and to celebrate with them all weekend.
