I’m trying to keep myself together here. I go from feeling like the course work is under control to thinking that I have no time and that I really have no clue what I’m doing — coming up with an assessment and treatment plan for two specific crisis/trauma situations? Really?! Me? I don’t really want [...]
The last day of the class was also the first day that I slept in since leaving home 8 days ago. I woke up at 8:20 after a restless night of sleep. Class started at 9am and I had to shower, get ready, and pack up all of my stuff from my cousin’s house. I [...]
Presentation day! It went really well. I kept my top on (and, yes, Marc did send me a text message asking me if I did). My partner and I both had connections to Haiti. People her family knows were in Haiti at the time of the earthquake and we showed clips of a video of [...]
Day 3. And what did my day consist of? A discussion on how to man telephone crisis lines, a presentation on suicide, a depressing video of the world trade centre bombings, followed by a look at the definition of trauma, and, to end the day (that went an hour longer than normal), a presentation on domestic violence.
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Well, I was gone from the house from 8:30am to almost 6:30pm today. Class was good. I saw my first therpist/client roleplay. I threatened to say that ”I only roleplay with my top off” in order to get out of being a part of it, but luckily the teacher chose other people before I had to resort to that. [...]
It’s just after 5pm and I’m back from my first day of Crisis and Trauma Counselling. It was a good day — lots of good discussion and an engaging prof. I am definitely feeling less intimidated with the classroom setting and not knowing all of the stuff the people who have been doing this for a [...]
Here I am, laying on the bed in the guest room at my cousin’s house in Calgary. It’s Sunday night. I know that because I vaguely remember going to church this morning. This is the third guest bed I’ve slept in since Thursday night. This is also the third wifi signal I’ve had to figure [...]
In twelve days I fly by myself to Alberta. The first three days will be spent visiting friends (which I am very excited about). The remaining five days I will be taking Crisis and Trauma Counseling at the Prov extension campus at Ambrose University. Why am I flying to Alberta to take a course when [...]
This morning as I headed off early to church, I looked down the street as I was turning and saw a very large turkey. Honestly, that early in the morning and that unexpectedly, it looked like the bird from Up. I quickly called Marc to get out of his bathrobe and take the kids out [...]
Marc is currently in the middle of a month-long intensive Greek course. Two semesters-worth of classes in 19 days. Tomorrow he has a midterm. The midterm falls on his tenth day of class. He was a little daunted by the thought of learning a language in that short a time and heard many horror stories [...]