CPE
It looks like I'm doing CPE in Downers Grove, IL this summer.
That means that I will have to live at home for the summer. My mom, as wonderful as she is, has tended to drive me a bit nuts these past few summers, so I really didn't want to be home. I wanted to be somewhere else where I could be more independent. Oh well. Mom is willing to talk about different styles of living together - maybe less mother-daughter and a more roommate-type relationship.
I am really excited for the site, though. Over Christmas break, I met with the supervisor at Good Samaritan hospital, and she seemed like a really nice person. We generally see eye to eye about what we would like to get out of CPE. Yes, CPE will be intense, but No, CPE will not send me home crying every day. The program is supposed to help me to learn how I work and not see if I am tough enough to handle anything and everything. She tries to set up a good variety of students, so we can spend time inspiring and challenging each other.
I am a little upset that I only got into one of the four CPE sites that I applied to, yet they all had decent reasons to deny me:
Iowa City cancelled their summer program.
Gettysburg had too many applicants.
Davenport had already made their selections by the time I applied (and I neglected to pay the application fee).
My family is really excited that they get an extra summer with me, and to some extent I am glad to go home too. I miss the suburban lifestyle much more now than I ever did at Wartburg. I find myself comparing life here to Chicago much more than I ever did at college. I think that is because I am adapting to living on my own here and because Gettysburg is considerably further removed from the Midwest.
I think Good Sams will be a good fit for me.
That means that I will have to live at home for the summer. My mom, as wonderful as she is, has tended to drive me a bit nuts these past few summers, so I really didn't want to be home. I wanted to be somewhere else where I could be more independent. Oh well. Mom is willing to talk about different styles of living together - maybe less mother-daughter and a more roommate-type relationship.
I am really excited for the site, though. Over Christmas break, I met with the supervisor at Good Samaritan hospital, and she seemed like a really nice person. We generally see eye to eye about what we would like to get out of CPE. Yes, CPE will be intense, but No, CPE will not send me home crying every day. The program is supposed to help me to learn how I work and not see if I am tough enough to handle anything and everything. She tries to set up a good variety of students, so we can spend time inspiring and challenging each other.
I am a little upset that I only got into one of the four CPE sites that I applied to, yet they all had decent reasons to deny me:
Iowa City cancelled their summer program.
Gettysburg had too many applicants.
Davenport had already made their selections by the time I applied (and I neglected to pay the application fee).
My family is really excited that they get an extra summer with me, and to some extent I am glad to go home too. I miss the suburban lifestyle much more now than I ever did at Wartburg. I find myself comparing life here to Chicago much more than I ever did at college. I think that is because I am adapting to living on my own here and because Gettysburg is considerably further removed from the Midwest.
I think Good Sams will be a good fit for me.