by Calvin Sun | Jan 17, 2011 | Community Service, December 2010: A Clinic in Mexico, Mexico, One Small House
As of 12:00pm EST, Monday January 17th, the community free clinic we were building in Tijuana, Mexico has opened: - At time of posting in NYC, it was -4 °C - Humidity: 37% | Wind Speed: 8km/hr | Cloud Cover: partly...
by Calvin Sun | Jan 4, 2011 | December 2010: A Clinic in Mexico, Epiphanies on the Road, Mexico, Post-travel Reflections
3 months of fundraising and 4 days of construction later… I don’t believe any of us fully grasped the impact of what we were doing until we had left. And even now, in the nascent days of our Tijuana-withdrawal, I myself still haven’t fully...
by Calvin Sun | Dec 30, 2010 | December 2010: A Clinic in Mexico, How's the weather?, Mexico, One Small House
As the roof came together, I couldn’t help myself to run up there and ask if anyone wanted a new profile picture for their facebooks. After all, it’s not very often we get to sit on top of a roof on a newly constructed clinic. As we...
by Calvin Sun | Dec 29, 2010 | December 2010: A Clinic in Mexico, How's the weather?, Mexico, One Small House, Uncategorized Stories
Today we were hit by pretty bad rain so we took only a skeleton crew to work at the clinic site, where we worked on insulation and shielding the roof with tarp. The construction pace on the clinic nevertheless decelerated and some of us were sent off to...
by Calvin Sun | Dec 28, 2010 | December 2010: A Clinic in Mexico, Mexico, One Small House
After lunch we commandeered a pick-up truck up to the top of the hills: And then we came back down just in time to see the roofs put up: - At time of posting in Tijuana, Mexico, it was 20 °C - Humidity: 46% | Wind Speed: n/a | Cloud Cover:...
