Now that I have attended school for a grand total of four days, I can tell you a bit about it. Just in case you happen to be in El Paso trying to visit me sometime, the school is right here:
And right there is where I will be spending most of my days for the next long time. School started on Saturday, and today, Wednesday is our day off for this week. These past four days have been full of orientation, information, and trying to figure out what the homework is before we have to hand it in. Trying to fit all that information into my brain feels like trying to win a game of Chubby Bunny. This school has found a way to fit a three year course into one year, and they overview that year during the first 17 days of class. Our teachers' job is to take us from zero experience to us being ready to do our first shift at the clinic on September 21. This means that in these first 20 days we are leaning everything from a bit of medical Spanish, to how to measure a belly, to how to draw blood, and how to document information. It's a bit overwhelming, but it allows us to get hands-on experience very quickly, which is what I need in order to really learn all these things they are trying to teach us.
Though it has been busy, and I have a feeling that will be the story of my life as I study here, I have also been able to connect with some of the other students, and also, thanks to my parents, to meet some of the people from a church here. One of my connections to a fellow classmate was not having a suitable place to live. We had taken time to look on Craig's list, we had walked through the streets by the school calling the numbers of all the 'For Rent' signs, we had asked around, but to no avail. Then (and this is where a church connection comes in) after getting in touch with the young adults leader yesterday at suppertime, I was put in touch with a couple from the church that I am hoping to be a part of. They agreed to take me in for a couple of weeks until the grad students move out and leave their places to us new students. What an answer to prayer!
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