SUMMER IS HERE!!!!!!

That's right I said it! I am DONE with school for 4 months and am HALFWAY done with nursing school!!! I couldn't be happier for summer to be here and to have a break from the craziness! (Hopefully now the weather will cooperate) Even though I know I probably will need to do some studying and preparing for next semester, I'm happy that my stress level will go down a bit and I will feel less guilty about having some more fun time spent with friends and family ;) Everyone be ready!!

I seriously never thought this day would come and it is still hard for me to believe that in a year I will be graduating from college! (NO, that doesn't make me old, but smart ;) haha) There is still a lot of work to be done till I get to that point and there is always the option of furthering my education (that is still undecided concerning a BSN degree) I guess time will tell what will be a reality or not. For now, I'm happy with a break from school... I'm not a big fan of school and would prefer to work. Besides college is expensive sheesh! I hope I'll be able to make a lot of money this summer to pay off some of my loan and maybe save up for a trip to Hawaii this December!! (Doesn't that sound wonderful?!)

As this semester/year has come to an end, I've been reflecting a lot on what's happened the past few months. One thing is for sure. I am so excited to now be called a SECOND YEAR student!! It's still the whole status thing like in high school.... first years are just kinda lame compared to second years ;) I'm excited to be able to get to see and do a lot more things this upcoming year and just have a change! I'm still trying to decide what area I want to do my preceptorship (internship) for next spring. Any suggestions are welcome :) Where do y'all think I fit the best in the hospital? As for now my top 3 choices are the NICU, OR, or the Surgical floor. I think those areas would be very cool and fun! I will learn a lot wherever I am placed though.

Something that will change though is we will have more students entering the program whether they are Bridge students or other LPNs. It will be interesting how we all get along and how our teachers will juggle all 45 of us! (compared to the 28 we have currently) I like the group I'm with now. I feel like we have bonded and have gone through a lot together. A bunch of us got together this week and went to breakfast at Angie's. It wasn't planned, but we ended finding each other at the restaurant and talked for a couple hours! It was a lot of fun and a nice venting session. Nursing school is seriously SO hard. It's nice to have people to relate to who understand what you're going through. We've had some good laughs this year and I've met some amazing people who I now consider to be some of my good friends! Speaking of funny times... we had to do a presentation for my mother baby class recently so we decided to do a video on sepsis of a pre-term infant. We decided to have some fun with it and be creative and so here's a blooper from part of our video. We had the hardest time being serious! (Not like I can be serious normally :) haha)

Anyways...... now it's time to CELEBRATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:)