So this last week of my summer vacation has gone way too fast for my liking. Tomorrow starts my first day of my 12week internship at Heritage Health Care center and I am so scared. Everyone keeps telling me I will be fine but I don't feel like I know enough to actually treat real patients. By the end of the summer (and hopefully not before) I'm expected to have a full case load of patients and these people are going to be counting on me to get them back to living independently... I'm going to have control over people's futures and that is scary. I was all fine and happy after my first fieldwork because it wasn't that bad at all and then Cora the fieldwork cordinator at the school had to tell me that I had an unusually wierd and nice relationship with my supervisor... great. Now I'm scared again :/ We will see how tomorrow goes.
I do know that I am so not ready to be done with summer and starting work... welcome to the real world I suppose. this last week was alright but it did go by alittle too fast. I had a fun weekend at least. Sunday I had my neice's 2nd birthday party and that was alot of fun. I love kids! She was so cute opening her presents and she had an awesome face when she opened ours... her mouth dropped open in a shocked expression. Awesome haha. Got to visit with the in-laws and my niece and nephew without having to worry about rushing home for homework. Then George and I went over to Fluffy's to visit. Like an hour after they got there they got a firecall though... it was really funny to watch all three of the guys that were there pile into Fluffy's truck all ready to take off to a structure fire and then to have him turn the key and find out the battery was dead. All of a sudden I hear a loud "Damn!" and George going "Mary's Van?" and then all of them pile back out to climb into Mary's Van. Priceless... however the structure fire was apparently on my road and came in as a trailor explosion... Apparently there was a loud explosion and my sister-in-law and any one else who was home ran outside to see flames reflecting off of a trailor two down from mine which is a friend of ours who works at Stewarts, So everyone called it into 911 and it turned out that my stupid drunk loud annoying neighbors were burning things on their grill such as plastic bottles filled with gas and apparently that blows up. Luckily they were doing this on the other side of their house not next to ours though. However it didn't catch their trailor on fire (although I would really like an excuse to have them move) and it resulted in a drunken fight which required the cops to come and break it up. According to my sister-in-law no one was arrested and before the cops left they were lighting up the grill again... although the landlords got involved so hopefully things would be better. I was expecting to return home to a loud annoying party/bon fire like they normally have going on over there but they weren't home... shocking. Normally though they have music blarring until 4am and a huge bonfire 10feet from their trailor with flames shooting out above it... I don't feel that safe here right now.
Today was alright as well... I hung out with George in the afternoon for a bit and then we went to a BBQ at Ryan and Julia's.... well it was going to be a nice BBQ with bon fire only it had to rain when we got there but it was still fun. We sat around and talked which hasn't happened in forever... we also had a good laugh about our friend Joe who's girlfriend... well now fiance is pregnent. They got engaged a few weeks ago on a friday night and then on the following tuesday they found out she is pregnent....surprise! She is a nut though and is a fitness and skinny freak so me and Julia can't wait until she starts getting fat haha. It'll be fun to watch. However, the good thing about that is that now they have gone from having a fancy wedding sometime in the next few years to a wedding in the New Hartford town park this summer with a justice of the peace guy which doesn't involve boring church services or George needing to rent a tux and go to rehearsals and all that jazz. Woohoo! But my saturdays are filling up in August awful fast with weddings... sigh. Oh well.
But I think I've wasted enough time... off to bed.... gulp. Wish me luck. I will post about tomorrow if I'm up to it when I get home.
So I finally made it... I graduated with my first degree yesterday and it was very exciting. I just never thought that I would finally get here and now I'm only one year away from being in the real world and I am thrilled about that. I'm so sick of school and homework and being stressed all the time.... Only a semester and a half left of my Master's Program and 3 fieldworks one of which starts on Monday but I will get into that a little later. I graduated Summa Cum Latae if I spelled it right with a 3.85 GPA... one of only 35 students in a class of 400ish graduates. Go me! I actually think I had the highest GPA in my division because they pick that individuals to be a Marshall based on their GPA last semester and my friend Addison was our division's Marshall and as of this semester I have a higher GPA then her. But I didn't want to carry the flag haha. It was a fun day... kind of a blur now because I was sooo hungry through the whole thing and our commencement speaker was horriable!!!! But it's over now... I have a Bacholars Degree in Health Studeies and now on to the Masters. Hoepfully I get to do this thing again next year to celebrate finally being done with school but it depends on how long the half semester is and how many weeks I have left for Fieldwork at the time of graduation... I might not get to walk next May... hopefully though I can. On another semester note... I got the highest grade in my Occupational Performance class... the only real class I take. The only A!!! I'm thrilled for that because that class is hard!
Now on to my fieldwork... I start my first 12-week fieldwork next week and I am so nervous. It's at Hertitage Health Care Center and they seem nice when I call but sometimes a bit spacey... my supervisor did call me on Friday to make sure everything was all set since she is on vacation this week. That was nice of her so hopefully it won't be too bad. I'm just hoping they don't throw me into things on the first day because I'm not ready for that... but by the end of the fieldwork I'm supposed to have a full case load and act like an entry-level therapist... thats making me nervous. We shall see....
Sorry... I realize it's been like a month since I last posted. These last few weeks of school have been horriable!! I never thought I would ever get that stressed but it's all over and my senior year is finally behind me... Only one more to go and I am done with school. Nothing overly exciting happened in between posts.. just alot of homework, writing papers, and crying over my research project but I don't want to think about any of that right now so I won't bore you with the details. Haha. Graduation is in less then a week which is exciting. 4 years ago I was graduating high school and now here I am soon to be a college graduate (with one more year left). It's sort of sad at the same time because with it comes alot of goodbyes... I did win the battle though. Jules is remaining in the area at least for the time being until her and Kevin finally decide to more South but I'm still hoping to convince George of that myself but we will see what happens. I do have to say goodbye to Sam though... she is transfering to the University of Buffalo for her last semester so she can be with her boyfriend. I'm going to miss her!! :( I mean it's only Buffalo so we can still visit but that will only last for so long and then everyone will go there seperate ways... it's part of life and it's sad. She has made these last few years so much fun and she is def a very good friend and I don't have many of those... We are going out to lunch tomorrow with Jules and Kevin and I'm not ready for it. It was tough last summer but they were coming back for my wedding and then school... but when I leave her tomorrow I'm not sure when or if we will ever hang out again... :'( Thanks for everything Sam... you'll be missed....
