Interesting ECs?

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So, just curious, what are some of the more interesting/unusual ECs people have done?
 
For the last few years, I have done a series of domestic abuse lectures each quarter for a non-profit group that reaches out to underserved women. IT has been an amazing experience and I wrote about it in one of my essays. One of my interveiwers had a lot to say/ask about it. Especially since I am a big guy going in and speaking to abused women.

Not sure that is terribly interesting, but it at least caught the interviewers eye.
 
One of the more unique EC's I have done was being an appointee to a board of the county commission. I respresented my township of ~60,000 people. It's not medically related at all, but was very interesting and enlightening to get involved with local government.
 
i hold a pilot's license and every other year i go back home (East Africa) to volunteer my services to the Wildlife Service (under the ministry of tourism where I trained for my initial license) and/or AMREF
 
EC's.... hmmmm. I'm Asotin county's first and only volunteer deputy coroner, and have been for the last 6 years. And I do search and rescue/EMT stuff. That's about it, unless you count working full time as a hyperbaric technologist while in college an EC.
 
Not sure if this is "EC" enough but I was a professional trumpeter for 10 years which I used to make money on the side during/after college. Of course, I practiced and had a good time doing it too. Don't play that much anymore, though. 🙁
 
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please please please tell me you make baskets with that skill!

me: volunteer at a needle exchange. gots ta love the addicts!
 
I went on a choir trip to Peru my freshman year as sort of a cultural exchange. And we didn't go to somewhere like Lima- we flew into a city that was, literally, in the middle of the jungle. There we sang for the indigenous people of the region at numerous villages in the area. Our transportation to areas was often by boat down a river that is a tributary to the Amazon.
 
Just spent the last year and a half working as an EMT in rural southeast Alaska, on an island called Prince of Wales.
 
Out of curiosity, how common is sky diving? I did one tandem jump when I was 18...miss doing that stuff, thinking of slowly working towards getting my sky diving license.

Although I can't decide whether to start the license program by doing a tandem jump from 18,000 feet w/oxygen tank or a six-hour ground school and jumping with my own parachute. Any sky divers who could offer advice on this? I'm sure there's a few of you out there in the non-trad ranks.

And before it's brought up, no, I'm not crazy. 😛
 
Pilot for 11 years. I wish I could do some interesting ECs now, but after the standard ER volunteering, lab research, and community work plus the inordinate amount of studying required by my pea sized brain, I don't seem to have time.
 
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