This week has been pretty great! I still feel like I'm settling in here but with the warmth (for a few days) and with more exploring, I feel comfortable here. Sunday we went to the Art Museum where on the first Sunday of the month it is "pay what you wish". Basically, you feel really bad for only paying a couple bucks, but they have a lot of people come in so it'll even out in the end, right? Monday I skipped my class on accident because the schedule was changed from normally being Tuesdays to Monday night. Whoops. I felt like such an idiot and there was nothing I could do about it, besides say sorry which obviously didn't cut it. Besides learning that I got my foot fit for a splint at work by a grad PT who was learning to do it. It was so cool! They used this waxy material that when heated would mold right to my foot and then they would cut off the extras to allow movement. The best part--I got to keep it. As my sister says, I'm sure I'll put it to good use someday.
Later on that night I went to the cell/ Bible study meeting. It was so nice to be in a calm environment that felt like home for once. I miss being surrounded by the comfort of that. Anyways, I found out that Welcome Wagon is going to be having a concert at my church on Feb. 23rd! For those of you who don't know, they are this great music group and the lead singer, Vito, is good friends with Josh Banner, the worship director at Hope. The best part is that when he came to Hope I got to sing with him and a bunch of other random Hope students. It was really amazing, so I'm super excited that first of all, people know him here, and second of all, it'll be nice to see a familiar face. What a coincidence, or more of a sign of God working. Of all the churches I could have joined, clearly this was the right one.
Up and Coming: internship, workshop tomorrow night to create our learning plans for our internships, pizza provided by TPC, Friday I get to head the RND patients in their morning pool workout because everyone will be at a conference, then back to TPC for class in the morning and then to Project HOME to better understand the homeless population. Lastly, some Hope people are coming out this weekend that are friends with my housemates so we'll be showing them around!!
Side story: "Plantains" is the title because today I bought what looked like ripe bananas (great for banana bread), but they were plantains. Good lesson, yummy fried plantains.
Shalom
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Thursday, February 3, 2011
A Little Triump and a Little Truth
Oh boy, the events that have occurred between the last post and now are almost too impossible to tell...but I'll try. So we move into our home while it's still under construction, still having the floors painted, and still installing necessary appliances such as fridge and dishwasher. Not only this but our heat was not working. After building a whole new wall in the house, including a french door, and adding a grape-patterned old table cloth the the area with the heating equipment, the heat was restored. After a few shopping trips, couches being delivered, and other fixes such as getting internet and mirrors in our bathrooms, the place felt like home.
So I started my internship. It has been a wonderful learning experience and I am only at week two. I get to observe and jump in to help when they need it, or when I want to. I am trained as a physical therapy aide and have just started doing research training. Also I have been getting in the pool with some patients for their aquatic physical therapy which has been really sweet and definitely reminds me of teaching swim lessons. My favorite patient, whom I have been working really closely with, is being discharged tomorrow so I'm going in, though I technically only have to work four days a week, but my schedule's all messed up anyways. Today I got to do co-therapy with her and a music therapist and it was so much fun! We just played some drums and had her try to kneel on her own or stand up, etc. It was great. Sometimes its a little frustrating to know what "role" I am supposed to take in the place because I'm not supposed to do all of the physical therapy aide tasks, but I am asked too, which is fine, I'm just confused. So anyways, once the whole learning plan process goes through it'll be much easier to get out of it what I want, even if that compromises some of the aide duties, but that's okay.
So I went to this church called Circle of Hope with my housemate Karly and it was wonderful. It's a newly formed "branch" of a larger church that is out of Center City and it was full of college-age people. Their huge thing is being a part of a "cell" or small group/bible study as others would call it. So Karly and I went to one this week and it was really wonderful to have that connection to random people that actually knew the city and were working/going to school like we were. It made me feel more at ease about possibly having to search for this type of community at other points in my life, should I move to a different area. Anyways, I'm super excited about what God is doing through this new church, and what we can partake in for the short amount of time we are here.
I am in two classes: Entrepreneurship (for my leadership minor) and Urban Political and Social Systems (for my Political Science credit). For Entrepreneurship we are focusing a lot on whether or not talent exists, or if it is instead deliberate practice. By the end of the class I have to create a business plan for what type of product I want to make and all the details (in roughly 30 pages) of how to make that happen. Any ideas, please let me know! For Urban Political and Social Systems we are talking about Identity this week, but jumping in to the real world next week with a walk to Project H.O.M.E. so that should be exciting. Even better is that in the future we will be visiting the state penitentiary.
Other random updates: we have internet, not wireless yet. Happy Chinese New Year (the parade was last night in Chinatown, but the whole 10:30 bedtime does not suit a social life), my housemate Katie made no-bakes and white chocolate macademia cookies last night--I'm fulllll of them, tomorrow is First Fridays which means that art galleries are open for free to the public and wine and cheese is served, also a trip to the art museum is planned for Sunday (first Sunday is pay what you can).
TGIF! I'll try to post more often too!!
So I started my internship. It has been a wonderful learning experience and I am only at week two. I get to observe and jump in to help when they need it, or when I want to. I am trained as a physical therapy aide and have just started doing research training. Also I have been getting in the pool with some patients for their aquatic physical therapy which has been really sweet and definitely reminds me of teaching swim lessons. My favorite patient, whom I have been working really closely with, is being discharged tomorrow so I'm going in, though I technically only have to work four days a week, but my schedule's all messed up anyways. Today I got to do co-therapy with her and a music therapist and it was so much fun! We just played some drums and had her try to kneel on her own or stand up, etc. It was great. Sometimes its a little frustrating to know what "role" I am supposed to take in the place because I'm not supposed to do all of the physical therapy aide tasks, but I am asked too, which is fine, I'm just confused. So anyways, once the whole learning plan process goes through it'll be much easier to get out of it what I want, even if that compromises some of the aide duties, but that's okay.
So I went to this church called Circle of Hope with my housemate Karly and it was wonderful. It's a newly formed "branch" of a larger church that is out of Center City and it was full of college-age people. Their huge thing is being a part of a "cell" or small group/bible study as others would call it. So Karly and I went to one this week and it was really wonderful to have that connection to random people that actually knew the city and were working/going to school like we were. It made me feel more at ease about possibly having to search for this type of community at other points in my life, should I move to a different area. Anyways, I'm super excited about what God is doing through this new church, and what we can partake in for the short amount of time we are here.
I am in two classes: Entrepreneurship (for my leadership minor) and Urban Political and Social Systems (for my Political Science credit). For Entrepreneurship we are focusing a lot on whether or not talent exists, or if it is instead deliberate practice. By the end of the class I have to create a business plan for what type of product I want to make and all the details (in roughly 30 pages) of how to make that happen. Any ideas, please let me know! For Urban Political and Social Systems we are talking about Identity this week, but jumping in to the real world next week with a walk to Project H.O.M.E. so that should be exciting. Even better is that in the future we will be visiting the state penitentiary.
Other random updates: we have internet, not wireless yet. Happy Chinese New Year (the parade was last night in Chinatown, but the whole 10:30 bedtime does not suit a social life), my housemate Katie made no-bakes and white chocolate macademia cookies last night--I'm fulllll of them, tomorrow is First Fridays which means that art galleries are open for free to the public and wine and cheese is served, also a trip to the art museum is planned for Sunday (first Sunday is pay what you can).
TGIF! I'll try to post more often too!!
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