Warning: If your are offended by silly mishaps with human anatomy, then I probably wouldn't read the 4th paragraph. =)
So it has been absolutely crazy since I last blogged! I have been studying like a crazy person for the last two weeks. On Monday I had my head-to-toe lab final, and Tuesday was my lecture final for my first class. The head-to-toe went really well. I got a 97%, which I was really pleased with! I missed three points because apparently I didn't have the stethoscope over the exact chest location for the heart sounds. I could still hear her heart loud and clear though, so I didn't see how 1/2 an inch really made that much of a difference. I also got an A on my lecture final...so therefore I got an A in my first accelerated nursing class! I strive for perfection...can you tell?
So when I was in college the first time, Kia introduced me to the idea that if you dress up real nice on test day you will do better because you feel better about yourself. We had to wear scrubs for the test on Monday, so I decided to dress up a bit nicer than usual for my test on Tuesday. I curled my hair and wore some nice clothes with these cute backless clog shoes. I've worn my Uggs practically every day since I've been here, so I was a little nervous about not having them. To get to my car I have to walk down this little grass hill. Well, it snowed a couple inches that night and I decided to kind of walk on my toes through the snow so I wouldn't get the backs up my socks wet. I took about two steps on the grass and slipped and fell flat on my back before I really even knew what happened. Of course the weight of my backpack gave me this amazing momentum and just flung me down before I had time to even stumble. I jumped up real quick and looked around to make sure no one saw me. I was so embarrassed...I just wanted to get to my car as fast as possible. I took a couple more steps and then fell backwards again, much harder this time. I landed on my butt SO hard that it knocked the wind out of me. Needless to say the backs of my feet did not stay dry. At all. I sadly sloshed the rest of the way to my car and wiped off my body with the snow brush inside. The fall kind of jiggled my brain around and I was all discombobulated before my test, instead of feeling good and confident...which was the whole point of wearing those stupid shoes anyways! On Wednesday I wore my Uggs again. I cannot even begin to tell you how sore I am. =)
Tuesday after my final was absolutely horrible. Number one, I was completely exhausted from studying so much and physically taking the tests. I thought that we should have had at least a little bit of a break that evening. Definitely not. I had to study for this silly math test, where I had to relearn all this skills I possessed in the 5th grade...like multiplying fractions and long division. How many nurses do you know that do long division? After that lovely review I was supposed to watch like 12 videos on my computer through this nursing website that we had to pay $75 to even be a part of. I thought it would be a simple procedure of singing up and watching the stinking movies. Again, I thought wrong. I had to download like 5 programs onto my computer to even get to the stupid videos. It was getting late at this point and I was so unbelievably mad at the whole situation and the elementary school math and being exhausted. I just couldn't get the stupid thing to work and I momentarily forgot that I was a mature, problem-solving adult and I just started bawling. Then I called my youth pastor, John. He saved my life, once again. John is just so amazing because he will drop everything to help you. He calmly talked me through my computer issues for 45 minutes. Everything eventually worked out and I watched my ridiculous movies and went to bed waaay too late. I have been here a month now, and this was the first time I had an emotional breakdown...which really isn't bad, all things considered.
Wednesday was catheter day! I walked into the room and there were all of these torsos laying on the beds with drapes over their genitals. Before we got to practice on the dummies my professors gave us a tutorial. Now the dummies are a bit like Mr. Potato Head; they come with attachable parts...but instead of noses and eyeballs and arms they come with vaginas and penises. Very educational. It was a lot like the Price Is Right...you don't know what you're going to get until you lift the curtain! We were instructed on how to do the procedure on a female first, and then they moved on to the male. Our professor reminded us that we need to tell the male, "I'm going to be gripping your penis firmly, sir" and as she was saying this she grabbed his penis firmly and ripped it clean off of the dummy, testicles and all. Now we try to treat the dummies with the same respect we use with real patients, so she turned around and apologized to the genital-less torso, "I'm so sorry for ripping your penis off, sir!" Of course the whole class erupted into uncontrollable laughter. Then she said, "You probably don't want to grip the penis quite that firmly." It still makes me giggle just thinking about it.
Today we learned how to give shots. Fortunately for me, I've been giving my mom an intramuscular shot for 11 years. I still can't figure out why my mom let a 12 year old stick a 1.5 inch needle in her every week. I was expecting to learn that I've been doing the procedure wrong all these years, but I was actually doing it just right! This was exciting for me, because I got to help some of my classmates out.
I also found out what my clinical rotation is today! I'm in a group with MJ, my lab partner from Health Assessment, which makes me really happy. She's a good one. Each clinical is four weeks long. I am starting with pediatrics (working with kids in schools), then long term care, and then obstetrics. This is the exact order I would have chose, so I am awfully excited! I have orientation tomorrow and I start on Wednesday! I also have Fridays off for the next 8 weeks. =)
Please continue to pray that I get enough sleep and that I am confident and prepared going into clinicals next week. Thanks! =D
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Can I take your blood pressure?
I worked hard studying last week to prepare for my classes, so the evening before orientation I decided to take it easy and have a nice, relaxing evening. I took a bathroom break to start off my quiet evening...and I managed to overflow the toilet. Water was gushing out in every direction and I screamed for Anna to come save me. She bounded barefoot into the bathroom through my toilet water and managed to turn the water off. By this point the entire floor was soaked. Of course, the one household item that Anna doesn't own is a plunger. We started scooping water into the bathtub with a pie pan and a dust pan. Once we got the floor dry, the toilet water was back down to a normal level. I thought maybe we lucked out and didn't need a plunger after all, so I tried flushing it again. Bad idea. Anna was standing by to stop the water, but she accidentally unhooked the hose apparatus in the tank and water shot out with an amazing amount of pressure right into my face. So of course I screamed and ran out of the bathroom to let her finish the dirty work. We were laughing so hard at our misfortune that we could barely even fix the problem. Now water was all over the walls and counter top and the toilet still wasn't fixed. So we took a trip to Walmart to buy a plunger. I wondered what the girl at the register thought. Obviously if someone goes to Walmart and only purchases a plunger, they had some kind of accident. You don't buy a plunger just in case. How embarrassing. Needless to say, my quiet, relaxing evening was neither quiet or relaxing.
That night there was a bit of a snow storm and the roads were horrible. Unfortunately they don't cancel school here for snow. I gave myself 45 minutes to get to school because of the weather. Exactly 45 minutes later, I accidentally pulled into a parking lot. I noticed there was a card swiper thing to get in, and I thought that was odd. It was too late to turn around and try a different lot because there was already two cars behind me. I tried swiping my card. Nothing happened. I tried again. Nothing. Excellent. I yelled at a girl across the way, "How do you get in here?" and she yells back "That's the faculty parking lot!" So the poor professor behind me had to get out of his car and swipe his card so I could get in to the parking lot to turn around and drive back out. I have the worst luck, I swear.
Tuesday I just had to go to the school and pee in a cup. It was getting colder at this point, about 0 degrees. That evening, some bozo shattered our glass door to get into the apartments. This just made it colder in our apartment. The heat just wasn't even getting the job done. I studied the rest of the day with three shirts, two pairs of pants, leg warmers, slippers, a hat, a heating pad on my lap and a blanket on top of me. Brr.
Thursday morning I woke up to fifteen below. This is by far the coldest weather I have ever been in. I went out to my car and tried to start it but it wouldn't even turn over. Fortunately Anna's school had a two hour delay because of the cold. I called her from the street and asked her if she would take me to school. How many times is that girl going to bail me out? I made it to school half frozen. That day we practiced doing vitals on each other. It was torture to have to take our sweatshirts off and have ice cold hands palpating all over our arms and freezing metal stethoscopes down our shirts. A nice girl I met offered to take me home, which I was very thankful for. We decided to jump my car when we got there, and it took 45 minutes of our cars attached for mine to start. I drove it around for awhile and it drove like a piece of garbage. When I got back inside to study I realized I didn't turn any of my homework in. I emailed my professor and begged her for mercy, trying to convince her that I'm usually not this irresponsible. She granted my wish. =) When Anna got home I took her blood pressure multiple times. Then her friend came over and I took her blood pressure too. Then I went in my room and took my own blood pressure.
Friday we were tested on our vitals. My partner's name is MJ, and we were nervous. We only had five minutes to take the temperature,radial pulse, apical pulse, blood pressure, and respirations per minute. I got 94%. =) They also forgot to mention that it was awkward lab day. We were studying the abdomen and respiration. For the first hour we had to get into groups of four and one of us had to lie down and lift our shirt up to the 5th rib while the rest of us poked and prodded and listened to bowel sounds. Fortunately one of the boys volunteered. There was no way I was volunteering for that. The next hour we went into little rooms and had to take our shirts off and practice listening to the lungs. That was fun. Fortunately my lab partner is a female.
It finally warmed up this weekend. It's in the upper 30s and my car drive like normal again! This weekend was full of studying. I'm loving it! It's so much fun to only have to study things I'm passionate about. I started reading for pharmacology today and I absolutely love it! It's so fascinating to find out exactly how drugs work.
I think I found the church I'm going to attend! One of Kia's church friends from home moved here so she gave me the name of the church he attends. It's called Omaha First Covenant. I decided to try it out this morning, and there were so many friendly people that actually cared why I was there. The greeter hooked me up with a family to sit with, which was really nice. The people made me feel like I was at home.
One of the highlights of the week: Kia sent me my favorite tea from my favorite tea shop in Portland, Tea Chai Te! I've been drinking it all week! She's the best. My mom also sent me a picture of my Uncle Steve and it is now one of the two framed pictures in my room.
My first big test is on Tuesday! We'll see if I really am back in to the swing of things...
That night there was a bit of a snow storm and the roads were horrible. Unfortunately they don't cancel school here for snow. I gave myself 45 minutes to get to school because of the weather. Exactly 45 minutes later, I accidentally pulled into a parking lot. I noticed there was a card swiper thing to get in, and I thought that was odd. It was too late to turn around and try a different lot because there was already two cars behind me. I tried swiping my card. Nothing happened. I tried again. Nothing. Excellent. I yelled at a girl across the way, "How do you get in here?" and she yells back "That's the faculty parking lot!" So the poor professor behind me had to get out of his car and swipe his card so I could get in to the parking lot to turn around and drive back out. I have the worst luck, I swear.
Tuesday I just had to go to the school and pee in a cup. It was getting colder at this point, about 0 degrees. That evening, some bozo shattered our glass door to get into the apartments. This just made it colder in our apartment. The heat just wasn't even getting the job done. I studied the rest of the day with three shirts, two pairs of pants, leg warmers, slippers, a hat, a heating pad on my lap and a blanket on top of me. Brr.
Thursday morning I woke up to fifteen below. This is by far the coldest weather I have ever been in. I went out to my car and tried to start it but it wouldn't even turn over. Fortunately Anna's school had a two hour delay because of the cold. I called her from the street and asked her if she would take me to school. How many times is that girl going to bail me out? I made it to school half frozen. That day we practiced doing vitals on each other. It was torture to have to take our sweatshirts off and have ice cold hands palpating all over our arms and freezing metal stethoscopes down our shirts. A nice girl I met offered to take me home, which I was very thankful for. We decided to jump my car when we got there, and it took 45 minutes of our cars attached for mine to start. I drove it around for awhile and it drove like a piece of garbage. When I got back inside to study I realized I didn't turn any of my homework in. I emailed my professor and begged her for mercy, trying to convince her that I'm usually not this irresponsible. She granted my wish. =) When Anna got home I took her blood pressure multiple times. Then her friend came over and I took her blood pressure too. Then I went in my room and took my own blood pressure.
Friday we were tested on our vitals. My partner's name is MJ, and we were nervous. We only had five minutes to take the temperature,radial pulse, apical pulse, blood pressure, and respirations per minute. I got 94%. =) They also forgot to mention that it was awkward lab day. We were studying the abdomen and respiration. For the first hour we had to get into groups of four and one of us had to lie down and lift our shirt up to the 5th rib while the rest of us poked and prodded and listened to bowel sounds. Fortunately one of the boys volunteered. There was no way I was volunteering for that. The next hour we went into little rooms and had to take our shirts off and practice listening to the lungs. That was fun. Fortunately my lab partner is a female.
It finally warmed up this weekend. It's in the upper 30s and my car drive like normal again! This weekend was full of studying. I'm loving it! It's so much fun to only have to study things I'm passionate about. I started reading for pharmacology today and I absolutely love it! It's so fascinating to find out exactly how drugs work.
I think I found the church I'm going to attend! One of Kia's church friends from home moved here so she gave me the name of the church he attends. It's called Omaha First Covenant. I decided to try it out this morning, and there were so many friendly people that actually cared why I was there. The greeter hooked me up with a family to sit with, which was really nice. The people made me feel like I was at home.
One of the highlights of the week: Kia sent me my favorite tea from my favorite tea shop in Portland, Tea Chai Te! I've been drinking it all week! She's the best. My mom also sent me a picture of my Uncle Steve and it is now one of the two framed pictures in my room.
My first big test is on Tuesday! We'll see if I really am back in to the swing of things...
Saturday, January 10, 2009
One more day of peace...
Bright and early Monday morning the duct cleaners payed us a visit and successfully eliminated the dead mouse stench from our apartment. We are very happy to be breathing clean air again. I took a trip to the campus to get my parking permit and ID card. I explored a bit...and there are 4 libraries on campus...one of them is a health sciences library! I almost peed with excitement. Practically every book was something that peaked my interest.
I had a lot of extra time on my hands this week, so I decided to start studying for my class next week. My first class is two weeks long, and we have a quiz every day and one exam each week. All of our lectures are online and we have to listen to them before class. We have about 2-3 hours worth of lectures to listen to before each class. I got most of my books this week too. My books have amazing pictures in them...I wish I still lived with Kia so she could share my joy over graphic pictures of diseases. I showed her some of them over video chat today!
Fortunately Anna decided to purchase Knight Rider...so David Hasslehoff never ceases to entertain us.
Yesterday we had a nice little snow storm. It was a good change to have some precipitation! I met some students from my class at a get together at a bar last night. It was a very different group from the Fox students I'm used to. I was caught in a huge circle of gossip within the first 5 minutes. Hopefully I'll find some good, wholesome friends in the program...if not, I always have Anna! =)
Today Anna showed me the Old Marketplace of Omaha! I had a blast exploring the town with her! She's like my own personal tour guide. Anna treated me to lunch, because she's the breadwinner in this relationship. We went to the river and walked across the suspension bridge into Iowa! There were huge chunks of ice floating in the water. It was a beautiful day for exploring. For once, I didn't mind the blue sky.
I have one more day of peace tomorrow, and then the madness begins on Monday with orientation! I am SO excited to be a nurse. I wish I could just skip all the school and go straight to work. My patient's probably wouldn't appreciate that much, however.
Ridiculous things that happened to me this week:
I got miserably lost multiple times. Once I printed out directions that led me into the middle of a park with practically no way out. Once I had to call my dad, who is amazing and knew right where I was after remembering the city from when he was here last week. Once I got so angry that I just drove back home.
I looked at the map on the Creighton website to find out directions to the right parking lot to. Unfortunately the font was size -10 and I thought it said right on 27th. It didn't. I confidently turned right on 27th without surveying my surroundings. Unfortunately it was the off-ramp to the freeway. I wondered who the three idiots were driving the wrong way. Then I realized I was the idiot. I gracefully flipped a U-turn and then got stuck at the light next to the people I wrongly judged. Of course. Thankfully God was protecting me.
I went to Jiffy Lube to get my oil changed. I already feel like an idiot at those places, because it's obvious I don't know what I'm doing. The helpful little man ran out to greet me and I slipped on the ice and got lodged between my car and the car next to me. I was so embarrassed. After the oil change I was excited because they cleaned my windows and vacuumed the floors. I had a bullet in the floor of my car leftover from our shooting practice in Montana. It was carefully placed on the console. I drove to the store and bought some groceries...and when I got back to my car there was a huge bird poop on my nice clean window. I haven't even seen a bird in this town!
We got a washer from Anna's parents last weekend. We borrowed a dolly from Ted, the maintenance guy to move it. I was running low on warm socks, so I stuck a load in. Because of our lack of a dryer, I filled two clothes drying racks with my wet clothes. The one towards the back of the room had jeans and shirts on it. The one in front had all my cute little socks and colorful underwear hanging in straight little lines. That was the day that Ted decided to come back and get the dolly. He walked in and stopped and looked at my display. I hate it when my underwear is on display for the maintenance guy to see. He said, "I thought you got a dryer?" I said "Nope....just a washer...um...here's your dolly!" Embarrassing moment number 47 of the week.
I bought 7 of my books from a Creighton student that graduated last month. I went to pick them up at her house. She kindly put them in a big box for me. It was heavier then I expected. I was walking back out to my car with my awkward load and I tripped on the sidewalk. I desperately tried not to fall down and took three huge, unsteady steps, lunging forward and slammed into the side of my car with my big box, ripping the handle off. I felt pretty victorious for not falling flat on my face.
I had a lot of extra time on my hands this week, so I decided to start studying for my class next week. My first class is two weeks long, and we have a quiz every day and one exam each week. All of our lectures are online and we have to listen to them before class. We have about 2-3 hours worth of lectures to listen to before each class. I got most of my books this week too. My books have amazing pictures in them...I wish I still lived with Kia so she could share my joy over graphic pictures of diseases. I showed her some of them over video chat today!
Fortunately Anna decided to purchase Knight Rider...so David Hasslehoff never ceases to entertain us.
Yesterday we had a nice little snow storm. It was a good change to have some precipitation! I met some students from my class at a get together at a bar last night. It was a very different group from the Fox students I'm used to. I was caught in a huge circle of gossip within the first 5 minutes. Hopefully I'll find some good, wholesome friends in the program...if not, I always have Anna! =)
Today Anna showed me the Old Marketplace of Omaha! I had a blast exploring the town with her! She's like my own personal tour guide. Anna treated me to lunch, because she's the breadwinner in this relationship. We went to the river and walked across the suspension bridge into Iowa! There were huge chunks of ice floating in the water. It was a beautiful day for exploring. For once, I didn't mind the blue sky.
I have one more day of peace tomorrow, and then the madness begins on Monday with orientation! I am SO excited to be a nurse. I wish I could just skip all the school and go straight to work. My patient's probably wouldn't appreciate that much, however.
Ridiculous things that happened to me this week:
I got miserably lost multiple times. Once I printed out directions that led me into the middle of a park with practically no way out. Once I had to call my dad, who is amazing and knew right where I was after remembering the city from when he was here last week. Once I got so angry that I just drove back home.
I looked at the map on the Creighton website to find out directions to the right parking lot to. Unfortunately the font was size -10 and I thought it said right on 27th. It didn't. I confidently turned right on 27th without surveying my surroundings. Unfortunately it was the off-ramp to the freeway. I wondered who the three idiots were driving the wrong way. Then I realized I was the idiot. I gracefully flipped a U-turn and then got stuck at the light next to the people I wrongly judged. Of course. Thankfully God was protecting me.
I went to Jiffy Lube to get my oil changed. I already feel like an idiot at those places, because it's obvious I don't know what I'm doing. The helpful little man ran out to greet me and I slipped on the ice and got lodged between my car and the car next to me. I was so embarrassed. After the oil change I was excited because they cleaned my windows and vacuumed the floors. I had a bullet in the floor of my car leftover from our shooting practice in Montana. It was carefully placed on the console. I drove to the store and bought some groceries...and when I got back to my car there was a huge bird poop on my nice clean window. I haven't even seen a bird in this town!
We got a washer from Anna's parents last weekend. We borrowed a dolly from Ted, the maintenance guy to move it. I was running low on warm socks, so I stuck a load in. Because of our lack of a dryer, I filled two clothes drying racks with my wet clothes. The one towards the back of the room had jeans and shirts on it. The one in front had all my cute little socks and colorful underwear hanging in straight little lines. That was the day that Ted decided to come back and get the dolly. He walked in and stopped and looked at my display. I hate it when my underwear is on display for the maintenance guy to see. He said, "I thought you got a dryer?" I said "Nope....just a washer...um...here's your dolly!" Embarrassing moment number 47 of the week.
I bought 7 of my books from a Creighton student that graduated last month. I went to pick them up at her house. She kindly put them in a big box for me. It was heavier then I expected. I was walking back out to my car with my awkward load and I tripped on the sidewalk. I desperately tried not to fall down and took three huge, unsteady steps, lunging forward and slammed into the side of my car with my big box, ripping the handle off. I felt pretty victorious for not falling flat on my face.
Sunday, January 4, 2009
Home, Sweet Home!
Before I left for Nebraska, practically all my family and friends told me to keep them updated throughout the next year. I am here solely for the purpose of completing my bachelors of nursing in 11 months. All things considered, I will not have enough time to personally update everyone I love in a timely manner. So...despite my aversion to journaling, I decided to start a blog, which I will try to update as much as possible.
One week ago today, after a tearful departure, my dad and I began our 1,236 journey from Missoula, Montana to Omaha, Nebraska. For the most part, our journey was fairly uneventful, which was a blessing, considering the frightful weather forecast. In Montana we passed about 15 cars in the ditch. Fortunately my dad is the best driver in the world, so we stayed on the road.
On the second day of driving, one hour from Omaha, my new roommate, Anna, called me and said she had a confession to make. This scared me a bit. What on earth could she be confessing to me one hour before I was supposed to move in with her for a year!? She informed me that a mouse or some other critter must have died in the duct work above my bathroom and that as a result, the room smelled like death. Welcome home. =) Unfortunately the smell is just as bad today as it was one week ago. It's especially delightful when I'm in the shower and the room is all hot and steamy...
Over the next couple of days, my dad and I explored the town, and he bought me a bunch of things to get me started. He fixed up everything he possible could in my apartment, and then he ran out of things to fix, so he decided to fly home a couple days early. I dropped him off at the airport at 5am on new years day. Suddenly Omaha was a much lonelier place.
Anna invited me to her parent's house to watch the Huskers game that day. Her parents are farmers, and I decided it was time for me to learn a thing or two about farming. Anna taught me all the basics of farming corn and soy beans on the two hour car ride to her folk's place. After stepping into her family's home, I became an instant Huskers fan and pretended like I knew what a first down was. (Don't worry, they won!) Anna decided to give me a tour of the farm. She even let me sit in a tractor! After the tour we went to the town of Lushton (population: ~30) to meet my sort-of relatives Ella and Elton Berg. Ella was my grandpa/great uncle Wilmer's youngest sister. Elton is the pastor of the church that Anna grew up in (church attendance: ~50 hmmm....). They were extremely pleasant people and I felt ten times more at home after visiting with them. Besides saying goodbye to my dad, the day was really enjoyable.
The next day, Anna's older sister, Leah came to stay with us for the night. She introduced to me to the series Knight Rider. David Hasslehoff at his finest! If you haven't seen this show...you are seriously missing out. I was addicted after the first episode! Knight Rider is definitely the highlight of my new life so far.
I have one more week of peace before I start classes on the 14th. I am so excited to be a student again! I think my brain has atrophied over the last 8 months. I begin with a two-week class, then I start the rest of my classes and clinicals on January 29th! Please keep me in your prayers! Believe it or not, I'm not very good at transitioning, and I need all the prayer I can get. =)
So after a week of living here...
My Favorite Things about Nebraska
* The night sky! You can actually see a lot of stars!
* Sunsets...they don't make them like this at home.
* It always smells a little bit like a stockyard here. MmmMmm cows!
* It only takes me 15 minutes to get anywhere!
My Least Favorite Things about Nebraska
* Drivers- I don't think they actually had to pass a test to get a license here
* The sky is ALWAYS blue!! It's so depressing.
* 4 degrees?? Come on!
* Everything is brown. I'm not sure green even exists here.
One week ago today, after a tearful departure, my dad and I began our 1,236 journey from Missoula, Montana to Omaha, Nebraska. For the most part, our journey was fairly uneventful, which was a blessing, considering the frightful weather forecast. In Montana we passed about 15 cars in the ditch. Fortunately my dad is the best driver in the world, so we stayed on the road.
On the second day of driving, one hour from Omaha, my new roommate, Anna, called me and said she had a confession to make. This scared me a bit. What on earth could she be confessing to me one hour before I was supposed to move in with her for a year!? She informed me that a mouse or some other critter must have died in the duct work above my bathroom and that as a result, the room smelled like death. Welcome home. =) Unfortunately the smell is just as bad today as it was one week ago. It's especially delightful when I'm in the shower and the room is all hot and steamy...
Over the next couple of days, my dad and I explored the town, and he bought me a bunch of things to get me started. He fixed up everything he possible could in my apartment, and then he ran out of things to fix, so he decided to fly home a couple days early. I dropped him off at the airport at 5am on new years day. Suddenly Omaha was a much lonelier place.
Anna invited me to her parent's house to watch the Huskers game that day. Her parents are farmers, and I decided it was time for me to learn a thing or two about farming. Anna taught me all the basics of farming corn and soy beans on the two hour car ride to her folk's place. After stepping into her family's home, I became an instant Huskers fan and pretended like I knew what a first down was. (Don't worry, they won!) Anna decided to give me a tour of the farm. She even let me sit in a tractor! After the tour we went to the town of Lushton (population: ~30) to meet my sort-of relatives Ella and Elton Berg. Ella was my grandpa/great uncle Wilmer's youngest sister. Elton is the pastor of the church that Anna grew up in (church attendance: ~50 hmmm....). They were extremely pleasant people and I felt ten times more at home after visiting with them. Besides saying goodbye to my dad, the day was really enjoyable.
The next day, Anna's older sister, Leah came to stay with us for the night. She introduced to me to the series Knight Rider. David Hasslehoff at his finest! If you haven't seen this show...you are seriously missing out. I was addicted after the first episode! Knight Rider is definitely the highlight of my new life so far.
I have one more week of peace before I start classes on the 14th. I am so excited to be a student again! I think my brain has atrophied over the last 8 months. I begin with a two-week class, then I start the rest of my classes and clinicals on January 29th! Please keep me in your prayers! Believe it or not, I'm not very good at transitioning, and I need all the prayer I can get. =)
So after a week of living here...
My Favorite Things about Nebraska
* The night sky! You can actually see a lot of stars!
* Sunsets...they don't make them like this at home.
* It always smells a little bit like a stockyard here. MmmMmm cows!
* It only takes me 15 minutes to get anywhere!
My Least Favorite Things about Nebraska
* Drivers- I don't think they actually had to pass a test to get a license here
* The sky is ALWAYS blue!! It's so depressing.
* 4 degrees?? Come on!
* Everything is brown. I'm not sure green even exists here.
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