It IS Spring

It is spring, or at least in my mind it is. The sandals have come out two weeks ago, regardless of how much snow there is or the fact that it was snowing last night as I went to bed.

I was driving around town today, there was sun, dry roads, good music. I was thrown into a bit of a nostalgic spell dreaming of being 13/14 again. All I have wanted all evening has been to go play outside, shoot hoops, toss around a football/baseball, shoot sling shots or play kick the can.
I was reminded of the days going to my friends' baseball games, watching them play, or get their collar bones broken. :)
I wanted to go race bikes up and down my old neighbourhood and climb trees until the branches broke under my feet.
Oh to be little again, to not have a care in the world, except to be home by supper.


Well, whats new with me, this semester has been craziness. It is clearly the spring semester, lack of motivation, lower marks, exhaustion, ready for summer.
I have been busy and been able to check off at least one more place I do not want to work in the future.
I had my maternity and paediatric rotation since Christmas break. First off, I really did enjoy peds, I had one very difficult experience but in the end it was very rewarding. I found that I really did love working with the children, they made me smile and work hard. It was terrifying but also brought me a lot of joy by the end of my rotation.
My second rotation was maternity, a place of with I do not ever want to work in. Babies are great, (well sometimes) but what is even greater was being able to leave them with the moms and not having to take them home. Watching a birth, again great, very interesting, however not something I am looking forward to doing myself. In any way, shape or form. Oh well, that is the reason for having so many different placements this year, is to figure out what I do and do not enjoy. Maternity, not something I enjoyed.

Now for exams, and my practical tests I will be done for the semester. I then have a week off and then a month of practicum in Quesnel. I will be working in a post-anesthetic recovery unit. I am very excited. It will be nice to be back in an acute care setting.
After my month of practicum I am heading out for the summer, I will be headed back to England with a wee pop over to Northern Ireland. My cousin is getting married and lots of family is flying over for the wedding. It will be wonderful! I actually don't think I can describe how excited I am to go back to England but also travel about in NI. Awk. I will be awesome. I will be staying with friends from camp who are from there, which will make it that much better!

After my trip I will go back to the camp I worked at last summer. Echo Lake Bible Camp.
Here is one of the promo videos I made for them, click here >> Echo Promo <<

I am looking forward to this month being over and summer starting and to getting some normal person time, like sleep and not uni!

Anywho, thanks for checking in!

Kate