Good afternoon all
How are we all doing? You ok? I do hope so.
Do I have some news for you?
Totally right I do.
Hmm where to start?
Ok...in my last blog entry I said about awaiting the exam results for the resit.
Well good news...I passed.
Yes, it's capped at 40% because it's a resit, but hey, I don't mind, I passed it.
Then I had some assignments to hand in. Which I have done.
Yesterday, I met with my personal adviser who signed all my progression paperwork so that I can go into Year 3. So I guess that's me done for Year 2 then.
WOOHOO
Me and the girls went to Revolucion de Cuba for cocktails to celebrate the end of two years hard work. And why not, especially as they have a 2-4-1 offer on! Be rude not to.What else?
Ah yes, I completed my nursing placement and after 11 weeks they would like me to apply for a job.
However, I still have a year to go but have applied anyways. There is no harm in trying.
So imagine my surprise when I get asked to come for interview. This will be when I come back from Tanzania so that gives me time to prepare a bit and give examples of the work I have done to progress my career.Am I proud of what I have achieved?
Yes I think I can now allow myself to be proud of my efforts.
What else? Ah yes...I know...
A little while back I applied for some funds through the Uni'.
I did my presentation on what I will gain out of my elective and how I am hoping that it will give me some tools for the nursing toolbox.
I hadn't heard anything and thought that was that. No biggie I thought, at least I tried. I totally dismissed it believing that I hadn't been successful at all. I was pleased because I knew that others would have been helped by them.So imagine my surprise when I get an email this morning saying that I had been granted a prize of a sum of money, towards the cost of my elective.
Well between the offer of interview, the cash award, finishing year 2 and about to go on my elective, I have been totally gobsmacked!
I mean how lucky can one person be? My head is still trying to process it all.
As a treat to myself yesterday, I bought myself a kite! Yes, a kite.
"But you're 47 years old....you don't need a kite"
Maybe not, but I have one now.
My plan is to get out and get some fresh air and fly my kite.
I'm hoping that it will allow me to process all this happy information before I go on Saturday.
Talking of Saturday and my forthcoming trip to Tanzania, I am happy to say that I am now packed and ready to ship out.I have the required anti-malarials to start taking on Thursday. I am jabbed to the 'inth degree to protect me from nasty stuff. I have everything that I could possibly need to enjoy my time away to learn.
I cannot thank everyone enough for the support, donations and gifts that I have received in a bid to raise funds for my elective.
I realise that perhaps my blogs have sometimes been very slow to arrive and for that I apologise.
However, I have just felt so clogged up with Uni stuff that everything in my life has taken a back seat.
Poor excuse you may think but it's true. I may have sat playing on my phone but with a clogged brain, the simplest of tasks is welcomed.
This period of acting in a solitary fashion has included paying less attention to one most dear, and without whom none of this would have been possible to achieve. I am, of course, talking about my dear admin', Marc.
You have heard me talking about him a fair bit. He has organised me and encouraged me and just been an absolute star.
He is my life rock and is there to pick me up when I fall, dust me off and get me on my way again.
Needless to say that I love him with all my heart and will miss him for the coming weeks that I am away.
That said he has continued with a dastardly campaign telling anyone that will listen that I am abandoning him. He says he'll be left with the cats and their litter trays while I go sunning myself on foreign shores.
Pfft...I mean...Doesn't he know I'll be working??
"...but what about...?"
Well yes, ok there is the safari."...and ...?"
Oh alright, yes there is the beach and the warmth and the sun.
But - I will be working every Monday to Friday between 08:00 and 16:00hrs. I have no doubt that everyone back here will be looking after him. Not that he needs looking after mind you, but still.
I am hoping that I can add some piccies once I am there so that I can update you on my progress too.
Apologies but this may have to be done by the pool. Needs must and all that jazz. I'm sure you will understand.
So, for now, I bid you all a good afternoon and look forward to sharing with you, more trials and tribulations of a student mental health nurse.
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K xx
