Week 1: Orientation

Hello Followers,

On Friday I went to the orientation at the San Jose Clinic in downtown Houston. The place was empty since it was the end of the week and they were going to have Saturday clinic on weekend. After a video and signing the waivers to volunteer at the clinic, the group took a tour of the facility. It was a very nice and clean place since San Jose Clinic just moved to this building about a year ago. After the tour, we talked to Samantha, the social worker that was in charge of the orientation and volunteer assignments, to choose our volunteer assignments.
I wanted a position where I would be able to perform translations, which was not available from the times that I submitted. I was able to obtain a translation position by offering availability once every two weeks for 2 hours and 45 minutes from 8 am to 10:45 am (I have class at 11:10) to help a group of medical students and their doctor with translations. In addition, on the weeks that there will not be a doctor, I will be translating pamphlets into Spanish, which I believe is important since Samantha said that about 90% of the patients that go to San Jose clinic speak Spanish as their first language.
I am looking forward to starting translation work this week on pamphlets and clinical translation work next week. I really wanted to do translation work and because of these adjustments I will finally be able to.