| | I think my wound is lucky (I have a nasty deep scratch on my left knee which is a product of a basketball game last, last Sunday). You know why? I played a whole lot better during yesterday's scrimmage game against AB. Which I think is way fabulous due to the fact that I've been feeling a bit blah about basketball. Because of that game (we lost by 3 points though), my whole persepective on being on this team sort of changed... Especially since I've been weighed down by tension caused by my relationship with some of (or is it most?) the team members.
I'm not in the mood to expound on my basketball experiences just yet. It gets me all worked up and upset. Well. Come to think of it... I don't think I get upset over it anymore. Just worked up. Hm. Yeah, worked up is right.
Anyway.
School started yesterday too. And with a pffffffft did it start. It was dreary. And man, the humidity level was off the scale. To make things worse, we went to school at 7AM, waited for our clinical intructor for an hour and a half, played hide and seek with our clinical instructor for a half hour more, and then had a CHN introduction from our infamous clinical intructor for another hour. We thought it would end there but nooooo. We had to go for our courtesy call at the Health District Office at 1pm followed by our area orientation at the Dimasalang Health Center. I mean, normally, I would not be pissed over this, but they told us to go to school at 7AM when we could've just seen each other's happy faces at 1. I mean, we are still adjusting from our altered biological clocks during the semestral break. They should've cut us some slack....
Finally, when the clock struck one, we did our required thing. Perfect timing too 'coz 1-3pm is when the Philippine sun is at it's sunniest, brightest and hottest. We rode a jeepney, walked what feels like a mile, sat in a crowded, stuffy room just to listen to an absolutely horrendous and dull discussion pertaining to District 3's population, rode another jeepney, sat inside a stuffy health center and got oriented with its workings, vision, mission and so on... IT WAS BAD. Things wouldn't have been as excruciatingly horrible if the heat was reduced by 3-5 degrees or so.
I am ranting.
This is my blog and I have the right to say whatever I want.
*poooooouuuuuuuuuuuuuutttttt*
You know? I am completely grateful that my second day of school (today, that is) is a whole lot better. I mean, yeah, I'm still tired as hell after but this time we got to do what we paid over 45K to do--TO LEARN and to GAIN EXPERIENCE. We finally got a taste of proper community health nursing. I mean, we've done that before but not we were not as involved in the duties as we were today. We were totally independent from the staff nurses due to the fact that we were up against almost a hundred people in one morning. We did the admitting, the assessing, the cooing over cute baby patients, vaccinating, the whole enchillada. It was fun. We've been more exposed to ward duty and specialized areas like the delivery room and operating room that's why we found public health service refreshing. The noise, the hustle and bustle of irrate, impatient and unreasonable citizens of the economy class tried us to our limits--but as what our clinical instructor advised us, smile (through clenched teeth if you must) and be understanding.
I'm beat. All this typing is giving me a migraine.
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