Let's just start with Day 2's photo: A picture of yourself from at least a year ago.
I cannot believe that at this time last year, I was getting ready to go live in Puerto Rico for 8 weeks. It doesn't seem like that long ago. I loved just about every minute of it and would love to go vacation there and see people. I couldn't pick just one picture to post though.. actually, I had a hard time only choosing two! I also have a Groupon coupon for a photo book that will expire soon that I plan on using PR photos for. I need to get on that. There's just entirely too many to choose from.
On to another subject. Decisions. Choices.
Bottom line: MAKING THEM SUCKS.
Yes, it's a part of life.. but sometimes it sucks to have to make them. However, there's always some validity for the ones you make whether it be right and wrong, a belief, something that if you continue will change who you are (for good or for bad), etc. For instance, I had to make one tonight that I was getting so anxious about (I mean, sick to my stomach, red face and hives anxious) but I had the reason behind the decision and it ended up turning out from what I believe to be a pretty good resolution and the future for it will be for the best and could be exciting.
Another choice I made today was to do something about what I may want to do with my life. In the last post I said I had some ideas, but that was it. After the post I was out with some friends and I was telling them about it and one said, "So, what are you going to do about this new passion? It sounds like it could become a passion of yours. What are you going to do about it? If you don't do something, you'll never know and you'll always be wondering." Well, today I did something about it. I've been looking into the area of becoming a Child Life Specialist. I looked at it before but the process is kind of rough. $400 exam. 480 Clinical hours. My first thought was, When in the world will I have time to do this? And I kind of just blew it off. I also wasn't going to take a $400 exam without knowing that's what I want to do with my life. But then when I was asked that last night, i thought I'd look into it again. I saw that they had a Summer Internship you could do and I looked at the application and I missed the deadline. It was January 5. So I called my mom, disappointed, to tell her about it and we started talking about the opportunities at other hospitals.. even if that meant I moved home for the Summer and just moved back to Knoxville in the fall [talk about saving money!]. I made some phone calls, emailed a few people, looked at other hospitals and these were my answers:
I cannot believe that at this time last year, I was getting ready to go live in Puerto Rico for 8 weeks. It doesn't seem like that long ago. I loved just about every minute of it and would love to go vacation there and see people. I couldn't pick just one picture to post though.. actually, I had a hard time only choosing two! I also have a Groupon coupon for a photo book that will expire soon that I plan on using PR photos for. I need to get on that. There's just entirely too many to choose from.
On to another subject. Decisions. Choices.
Bottom line: MAKING THEM SUCKS.
Yes, it's a part of life.. but sometimes it sucks to have to make them. However, there's always some validity for the ones you make whether it be right and wrong, a belief, something that if you continue will change who you are (for good or for bad), etc. For instance, I had to make one tonight that I was getting so anxious about (I mean, sick to my stomach, red face and hives anxious) but I had the reason behind the decision and it ended up turning out from what I believe to be a pretty good resolution and the future for it will be for the best and could be exciting.
Another choice I made today was to do something about what I may want to do with my life. In the last post I said I had some ideas, but that was it. After the post I was out with some friends and I was telling them about it and one said, "So, what are you going to do about this new passion? It sounds like it could become a passion of yours. What are you going to do about it? If you don't do something, you'll never know and you'll always be wondering." Well, today I did something about it. I've been looking into the area of becoming a Child Life Specialist. I looked at it before but the process is kind of rough. $400 exam. 480 Clinical hours. My first thought was, When in the world will I have time to do this? And I kind of just blew it off. I also wasn't going to take a $400 exam without knowing that's what I want to do with my life. But then when I was asked that last night, i thought I'd look into it again. I saw that they had a Summer Internship you could do
- more deadlines of January 5
- All filled up
- Only for students
- No Summer Internships (only Fall/Spring)
BUMMER. I'm glad I looked into it and found some answers.. but I'm really disappointed that I can't do that this summer. I emailed someone else as well asking if there's something in that field that doesn't involve the CLS certification.. however, I haven't heard back from them. May make some phone calls tomorrow.
Don't get me wrong.. I love my ECLC kids, I just know it's not something I am going to be doing the rest of my life and I feel like this could be that something for whenever that may begin.
Here's to future choices/decisions, future opportunities, and maybe a Summer 2012 Internship.
Don't get me wrong.. I love my ECLC kids, I just know it's not something I am going to be doing the rest of my life and I feel like this could be that something for whenever that may begin.
Here's to future choices/decisions, future opportunities, and maybe a Summer 2012 Internship.
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