Today, marked the end of the academic part of the OT program. I tried to take it all in this week but I left not really excited or happy… I think i feel kinda sad. It felt like a few months ago, I was dancing it out with my sister when I received the acceptance letter… a few weeks ago when I sat in orientation in a big room with 50 other people that had stories of why they’re pursuing OT. It felt like last week when I had NO IDEA how I was going to make it through the program with the amount of work they wanted us to produce. It felt like a few days ago when we admired that C3 was done with their coursework and going out to FW II… and it felt like yesterday when I didn’t think I’ll ever have my life back instead of always thinking and worrying about the next project, assignment, test, paper or presentation.
Community really is important. I think I felt sad today cos it felt like i’m leaving an awesome community behind. (we’ll see each other one more time in 2 weeks for the comp exam before graduation in may) but there will be no more lunches at loker, frantically using up all our prints at the comp lab, finding out how everyone’s weekend went, sharing stories of our families, encouraging each other on when we feel like we have so little left to give. The last 5 semesters would have been even more horrible without the people I got to learn with each week.
I’m definitely excited about our future as students and eventually our future as therapists. I think our cohort will go far and do great things… I think our professors believe that too.
Tonight, I celebrated this milestone by serving at Door of Hope in Glendale. I got to help cook dinner with Jon, Jenn & the teens there. After dinner, Jenn, Cons & I went outside to play with the younger kids:
- when asked a 4 yr old when her birthday is, she says ‘ when there’s cake’.
- there was a boy that inspired me to get back into playing with the most simplest thing. a rock. He played with a rock for a good 30 mins, fully engaged with trying to build a ‘castle’ with the rock and a piece of paper. it was awesome.
- surfer, wave, shark!
- Jenn being a giant. haha
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- After a long day for both of us, we’re thankful for our ‘other kitchen’ called JJ Cafe.
- June 17th: Dinner: grilled ny steak, butter herb salmon, corn on the cob, rice pilaf, baked potatoes & grand fiesta salad. Damn it’s gonna be good!
- June 18th: Glo hasn’t had her girl time in a while. Tonight, Girl time @ green st. Cafe… yummy food and so good to catch up with mel & mai.
- It’s been a week full of blessings. God is good.
- June 21st: First time back @ the gym today… Not too bad. Gonna watch a movie w/mike to end the weekend
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This morning as mike cooked a VERY YUMMY omelet for breakfast, we decided to do a road trip to san diego to watch my sister perform her last performance with Pac Modern. She’s been practicing all week till the early morning and haven’t been sleeping and Glo is worried that she won’t be able to drive home safely from san diego. So after breakfast, we got dressed and backed to head down to SD.
We found a starbucks next to the church they were performing at and tried to get some work done before the performance at 7pm
- We’re seated in daniel 8: 3 & 4 (they have bible verses as seat numbers!)
We’re so proud of her! the dance routine was pretty awesome. We both love watching hip hop dance cos I think we secretly wish we could move like that. hahah
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