Bye!

Hi everybody for the last time!

This is my las post in New York! I'm leaving the U.S this afternoon and I only wanted to share my feelings about this experience.

It has been a pleasure for me to work here, helping pregnant mothers in the offices, having close relationships with them after the counseling, being in front of Dr. Emiliys...all these days here have changed my life and the way I'm going to act in the future. 

Back in Spain, I'm sure I'll remember all the people I've met here, not only the girls, also the other interns and the people who work in EMC, all of them are great people.

I hope next year new people are coming and they enjoy as I did.

Thank you so much for all!

A great girl

Today I'm going to talk about a personal experience at 149 st. office that happened to me a few weeks ago.
Some time in June, a girl called Angelica came into the office because she wanted to have an abortion. When I explained to her the reasons why she has not to have it, show her the videos and try hard to change her decision she left the office saying she was going to have it.
Maybe two weeks later, Angelica came to the office again saying that she had thought about what we told her the first time she came and she had decided to keep the baby, but a few days before her circumstances changed and now she again wanted to have it.
The fact that our words have helped to change her mind gave me strength to talk to her again, but finally I  didn't know for sure what she was going to do.
I phoned her every two days since her las visit, and she always said she was undecided.
But finally last monday, when she asked the phone like she was doing for weeks, she told me she had realized all her problems were not as big and valuable as the life inside of her.
Next week she's visiting us in the office, so maybe I can take a picture and show you!
  

Una historia con final feliz

Buenas tardes en espanol hoy!
Creo que despues de mi gratificante experiencia esta semana Angelica merece ser nombrada en mi blog.
Hace unas semanas, a la oficina del Bronx llego una chica latina que queria abortar. Hicimos todo el proceso con ella, le ensenamos los videos e intentamos convencerla. La verdad, estaba muy convencida de lo que iba a hacer porque tenia graves problemas con el padre del bebe, y casi se marcho de la oficina sin dejarnos hablar mucho.
Cuando ya creiamos que no iba a tener al bebe, aparecio unos dias despues en la oficina. Vino y me dijo que habia pensado, y que cuando llego a su casa las palabras que escucho en la oficina resonaron tan fuerte en su cabeza que decidio tener al bebe, pero justo ese dia sus circunstancias habian empeorado y queria abortar de nuevo.
Por un momento no supe que decirle, no esperaba esa visita, hable mas con ella, le ofreci mi ayuda, y desde el momento en que se volvio a marchar la llame cada dia.
Justo ayer, le llame por la tarde, y me dio una buena noticia; se quedaba con el bebe e iba a venir a verme el viernes. Fue la mejor noticia que he tenido en semanas.
El viernes cuando venga no se como reaccionare, pero seguro que sera una magnifica manana. Pondre alguna foto en mi proximo blog para que la podais ver!

Good calls

Hi readers!

This week has been a very good week at the 149th st. office. I've been five weeks here working, and now is when I can see how the girls react really after the counseling, and if they are helpful or not.

I've been phoning girls all the week, and the most of them are keeping the baby.

It is surrising how counseling don't end when they leave the offices, how they continue thinking about what we tell him, and how these thoughts turn into turn arounds.

On the other hand, some of them decide not keeping the baby, and when they tell you by phone, you feel like your job has not been good enough, you don't know what to do or say, but it has been done yet, so the only thing you can do is to pray for them.

All these things help you doing the job, I think these girls who keep the baby give you the power to continue working.

A different type of friendship

We spend a lot of time at the offices, waiting for the girls to come, counseling them and trying to give them all they could need.
During my four weeks here, I've met a lot of girls and with some of them now I have some kind of friendship.
When they first come to the office, I write down their phone numbers so I can phone them the following days to see how it is going. Since the moment I phone this girls, it is like they are more than girls I met in the office one day, they don't only tell me about their pregnancy, they trust me about personal thing too, and in a certain way, it rests inside you.
I'm leaving the U.S in three weeks, but although I won't ever see these girls, they will be part of me always.

Meeting people

Hi everybody!
I'm writting this post from the Bronx Lifehouse, where some of the interns are living.
I had never lived in a house with people  from so many countries and now I think this is a great experience. We can talk and get to know each other, the culture of different countries and also make good friends.
All of this, in our case, is better done due to the fact that we all are here for one reason, helping pregnant women and saving lifes.
Meeting people who have the same feelings about abortion and are fighting with you can probably be one of the best things of coming here. Sincerely I recommend it! 

In front of the clinic

Good afternoon from the Bronx Lifehouse!
Today I've had a very busy day! We have been at the front of Dr. Emily's clinic, and a lot of women have come.
When I'm there I have like mixed feelings, I want a lot of girls to come and so I can talk and help them, but then, when we are hours there and nobody comes, I think it is maybe better, because that means that the number of girls who wanted to have an abortion that day is smaller.
This morning a lot of girls have come, and only a few wanted to talk to us. Sincerely, it has been hard, but I hope next time is better. We'll pray for it, and for the girls we've met today.

A call for those who don't believe

Hi!I'm here again but today in English!Today I want to write for those who don't believe in the work we are doing here.

Maybe someone who has never experienced a pro-life work before can think there's not much to do, only a few girls per day who probably, after counseling, decide not keeping the baby.

But when you are here, working day after day with the girls, and when you realize how the offices work, then all of these thoughts change, this experience shows you how big the problem is and that more and more help is needed.

Abortion is not a problem only in NYC, it is extended all over the world, even in our countries, where we might think it's not a huge problem, it is.

Therefore, do not wait for a trip to help, search where you can do it no matter the place in the world you are, and HELP!

El regalo mas grande

Dicen que la vida es un regalo de valor incalculable, que hace mas valiosas a las personas que la dan, que mediante su amor la crean.
Cuando vienen madres al centro, queriendo abortar, siempre me vienen a la cabeza estas frases, y me pregunto a cuantas de ellas se les ha podido pasar por la cabeza. Siempre pienso que a ninguna, si no no estarian alli.
Si la vida es el regalo mas grande, quien esta en el derecho de arrebatarlo? Es mas, por que una madre, en esos momentos la unica persona a la que tiene ese bebe, se cree en ese derecho?
Quizas esa sea la frase que mas llame la atencion a una madre, la frase clave para que una chica empiece a pensar en la vida de ese bebe como parte de la suya, el regalo mas grande que se va a dar a si misma, y a una nueva persona que esta por venir.

Primeras vivencias

Hola de nuevo!

Despues de una semana aqui la verdad he experimentado muchisimas cosas. Desde la ultima vez que escribi, he estado en la oficina de la 149 st. y hoy por fin he podido ir a Dr. Emily.

En la oficina del Bronx tenemos un contacto mucho mas cercano, y por tanto la oportunidad de aconsejar mucho mejor a las chicas. Me sorprende la reaccion de alguna de ellas al saber que no se trata de una clinica bortista, y como algunas pueden llegar a contarte cosas tan intimas.
Hace unos dias, vino a la oficina una mujer que queria abortar porque el padre del bebe, su antiguo  ex-novio habia hecho dano a si hija. Fue el caso mas dificil que he presenciado hasta ahora, y la verdad muy dificil de solucionar. Afortunadamente, el test dio negativo.

Hoy, aunque ha sido un dia muy caluroso y en Dr. Emily tenemos que estar en la calle, me ha merecido la pena. Ver a las chicas como llegan, intentar convencerlas cuando estan tan cerca de llevar a cabo un aborto, y luego presenciar como algunas de ellas salen habiendolo hecho, es algo que marca. No han entrado muchas chicas, y la mayoria han decidido abortar, no ha sido un buen dia, aunque confio en poder conseguir mucho mas mi proxima vez alli.

Escribire pronto!

Hola!

Soy Andrea Martinez Gurrea, una espanola estudiante de Economicas y Derecho en la Universidad de Navarra.
Llegue a Nueva York el domingo con Miriam, una amiga de la universidad. Este corto tiempo aqui ha sido increible, la verdad el trabajo esta siendo muy gratificante y la ciudad es alucinante! Me parece muy grande comparada con Valencia, mi ciudad natal, y ademas siempre esta llena de gente. Ya conocia Nueva York y cada dia me gusta mas!
Conoci EMC Internship por companeros de la universidad, pero no sabia muy bien de que se trataba hasta llegar aqui. Aunque llevo poco tiempo aqui, me parece que la ayuda que se ofrece es realmente necesaria, nunca pense que el numero de abortos en esta ciudad fuese tan alto, me ha impresionado muchisimo.
Seguire contando mis experiencias mas adelante!Hasta pronto!