Jul 25, 2004 05:38
It's been so long since I've written on here that I'm not sure how to start. Isn't that weird?....
As you all know already I took the Nurse Aide Training Program with Julia. It was so much fun, and such hard work. (Fun in class, hard work in clinicals.) I had a hard time in clinicals. I seemed to get very deeply saddened very easily. Which doesn't make a hard job any easier. Anyway...
I've applied for the state test already, and I am taking it in Richmond on August 7. I am so nervous about the practical part of the test. Just a few slipups and I'll fail. Which will ruin my job opportunities.
I applied to and had an interview at Maryview hospital. I was hired, with the condition that I pass my state certification. No pressure, mind you! I can't start working until I pass. But my orientation is August 2,3,and 4. Everyone is really nice at Maryview. They all call 'hi' to each other by name as we walk down the hall.
The day after I graduated from the NATP, I left for Nags Head with Sarah and her family. It was a blast! Some of the highlights: jet skiing, making friends(or acquaintance, at least) with a girl from Switzerland, seeing the sun come up every morning, riding tons of waves, getting a great tan, climbing Jockey's Ridge, going fishing, having a long walk and talk on the beach with Sarah, meeting a ten year old male who thought that I was 13 "or maybe my age..."(I didn't think I looked that young!), and I can't think of anything else right now. I left a day early and drove back home so I could meet my mom and two little brothers to drive to PA for a family reunion. It was great! It consisted of my grandpa, his four sisters, and their families. It was so cool to meet all of them, and I have great pictures of them now. One of my mom's cousins family lived in Russia for 9 years. Even their 5 year old is bilingual! One of my grandpa's sisters entire family is mennonite, complete with the standard mennonite dress and caps. It was so cute. They are such beautiful people! And the 7-month old baby was the most alive of any I've ever seen... she didn't care who held her, and she just kept looking around and touching things as if she couldn't get enough visual and tactile stimulation. I never heard her cry.
That night I went out to a movie(I, Robot) with two cousins and two brothers. It was so much fun, except the part where we got lost on the way to the movie theatre! And the part where I got hit on by a twelve-year old. (What is it with me and little boys?) By the time we got home it was twelve and I was dead tired.
That's all for now, I am tired of typing.