RESEARCH & COMMUNITY EXPOSURE

This week was the best week I have to say for my research and community exposure. Their was alot of things to do and learn in a week.

Sunday, we worked on our research project and took a long time to get some of the work done. It's been a hectic week and school starts this week.

Monday, worked at SNNA for the breast & cervical cancer workshop and meetings. I got to see SNNA BOARD members in action for their meeting while we were doing the cancer workshop. Chris who was the SNNA BOARD chairman and Alisi let Putu and I experience the job of an interviewer and it was great learning what they do. 2 long evenings for the training which was hosted by Dr. Sela V. Panapasa and her partner. It was a long night all I got to say, but a very good reason.

Tuesday, day 2 at SNNA. We went to a meeting with the pastors for the Pacific Islander American Health Study on our people. It was great to see what the pastors had to say while Dr. Sela was explaining the purpose of this Health Study. The tongan pastors understood the concept and was on board to help outreach the other pastors to do this study into making it happen. I understood it was hard, but paid off at the end. Then later on, had to get ready for training day 2 with Dr. Sela and it was a long night, but we got alot of work done.

Wednesday, got up early to head to SNNA for meetings to attend. Putu and I had to split to attend to these 2 meetings so Putu went with the boss, Dorothy and Chris to attend to the City of Commerce in Long Beach. I went with Genesis to the PATH for women in the O.C. I got to see these wonderful ladies do to help the different organizations contribute to their communities. Kimiko and Alisi were the ones doing the presentation while everyone was getting their inputs and learning along through the process, but overall, a great experience with Genesis.

Thursday, we hosted another breast and cervical cancer workshop again. I thank Laborday, Monika, Eneti, Kerroh, and Terisa for participating the workshop while Genesis was teaching with the helping hands of Putu and I. All the girls like the workshop because it was very informative. Overall, it went great.

Friday, was getting everything together for the posterboard and to finish everything possible to show to my researcher. GOOD LUCK to our presentation. :)

Research and Community Work

Yesterday, August 10,2010 is when I met with my researcher again and did my community work for SNNA. Long day, but it was a great learning experience for me. Putu and I went to meet up with Researcher Dr. Prochalk at CSUDH where we had alot to learn about our research project. We worked side by side on how we are going to get the information on our project together. We talked alot about the different culture aspect in health. We watched videos that could explained more of what were looking for in our community focused group. I was so excited on the research project we got assigned to, but it'll take alot of effort into putting everything together.

We finished our work with Dr.Prochalk that day, but had an hour to meet up with Genesis who is from SNNA to do the cervical and Breast cancer workshop. We had to get 5 girls for this workshop to make it happen and had time to bring along with us our friends from high school, Pookie and Leka with us to the workshop. This was really a great workshop for all of us because we had no clue about these cancers, but that we had family members that had one of the cancer like, Breast Cancer. Genesis, who was conducting the workshop taught us how to be aware of these type of cancer. We ended the day on a good note that we can teach and share the information about the cervical and breast cancer.

Friday was a real busy day. We had alot of great speakers who helped us understand and know what to do with our research.

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Friday, the PI Interns had the opportunity to see the work of the communities come together to discuss about the issues in our community, but mainly in carson. We talked about the needs each non-organization was talking about their issue such as gang violence to the health problems needed. It was a great experience to see everyone come together to share their stories and also to know what we need to make it happen.