Day 1: Arrival and Team-building

Julia Tao
​The ABC group went zip lining after arriving in Belize from a red eye flight (although my family had already arrived beforehand, so I did not go). When everyone arrived in Placencia, we went to dinner at Cozy Corner in the back of a pickup truck, and while we waited for our food, I passed out name tags with the help of my cousin Sierra. In order to give group members some experience working as a team, we played games such as telephone with medical phrases (Ex: Code blue, code blue, doctor please come to the emergency room. Your patient is having v-fib), charades acting out actions such as stroke and cardiac arrest, a team building activity where members answered questions about the other members (Ex: What is their favorite food?), and medical questions such as "What would you do if an autistic student had a meltdown?" Team Michael Wong came in first, my team came in second, Team Cas Hom came in third, and Team Nate Cheng came in last. Because Team Nate Cheng lost, they all had to take seaweed shots (which were actually very tasty). After the games, we celebrated Dr. David Liu's birthday, and all the students went to the pier to watch/do some fishing and visit the lobster fest.

​Videos of the team building medical games:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1F-8LmPK80mNJDtJcWL54wvOCQf4lsihg
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Matt Cheng
I left LAX to go to Belize on the plane, DL 659 and arrived at Belize 5:30 AM just in time for the great wave of heat and humidity that hit me like a tiger pouncing on its prey. I'm with the group called ABC which stands for Agape Belize Cure. In this group, I helped others in need who don't have the right medications and/or money for medical care. After a four-hour bus ride, I went over to Cozy Corner where we had an interbonding game in which we played a medical version of charades.

Kenneth Yang
The first day was a blast. A literal blast of heat. I traveled to Belize on flight DL 659 with other volunteers and friends. As soon as all of us exitted the airplane, a wave of heat blasted upon us. We joined with another group who took the American Airlines flight. Afterwards, all of us stuffed our luggages into the storage compartment of the bus and rode to a ziplining course. The beautiful view, the accelerating speed, and the windy breeze gave ziplining in Belize a whole different feeling compared to other locations. After ziplining, we went to our rooms and unpacked. We had to go immediately to a restaurant and group up in our medical teams to play a bonding game.