HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY! Or... for some, like myself, Happy Single Awareness Day!
I have a love/hate relationship with this holiday. Hate, because of the commercialism this country gives it--NOT because of all the frilly presents and gifts and huge amounts of love everyone gets from their significant other (although, why should a holiday be an excuse for that when it should be a year-round thing? ha). Love, because of the history behind it. They should make a chick flick for that... Valentine's Day Special!
See...Saint Valentine was a martyr. He died because he wanted people to be together. In his day, there was an Emporer by the name of Claudius who felt like dude's who weren't married or had families, should stay that way and be soldiers. So he outlawed marriage for young guys. Saint Valentine thought that was stupid so he went on and married people illegally. But Claudius found out and imprisoned him.
This is a cute part--while he was in prison, he fell in love with his jailor's daughter who visited him often in jail. Before he died, he wrote her a love letter and signed it--"From your Valentine..." Awww... so sweet.
Anyway, my big VDay plans are not that elaborate but I am spending it with those that I love. Which is how it should be. :-)
Happy Valentine's Day. <3
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
PT/OT Society
So I was right about the snow. It's been pounding away for almost 3 days now.. I LOVE IT. I know I'm some kind of freak but... oh well. I love winter. There's just a certain caliber of peace to it that no other season can give. It's incredible.
Last weekend was amazing...having the opportunity to visit the Eastern Washington University and the University of Montana was such a blessing. It's like as soon as I made the decision to do Physical Therapy, everything has fallen into place.
Things were super cramped just traveling to these schools. There was I think 23 of us? and we were all cramped into two 12 passenger vans. It was annoying um...like 90% of the time. Thank goodness for ipods though. and phones! I'm glad I can text. Except there wasn't a lot of service traveling so... yeah.
Anyway, University of Montana is pretty cool. I really like their PT building. Of course, everyone is a hippie there so everything was really laid-back. I really liked how their program was set up though. They are doing research for quadriplegic and paraplegic people where they have them sit in recumbent bikes and they hook electrodes to their legs and then through the computer system, the patients are able to move their legs and have muscle contraction. It's amazing.
I think I liked Eastern Washington University better kinda. The overall atmosphere was a lot more like BYUI. They have a kind of dress code there and things were pretty organized. A couple grad students gave a us a tour of the facilities there and showed us a few labs. One of the labs we walked into was labeled "Anatomy Lab". Okay. I didn't really think anything of it cuz I've been in one before. Well. this was definitely different from the one I had been in. As I was soon about to find out...I walked in and there were ten stainless steel tables--2 rows of 5. Each table had a kind of lid to it that covered the entire table. Each table was about 6 feet long. the lids were like 2 feet high? My reaction was "oh cool! what are these for?" I'm definitely not the brightest crayon in the box... then i realize how cold it is in the room. I take another look at the tables. "OHHHHHHHH...." Yeah. it's a cadaver lab. Never been in one before. But it was definitely veryyyyy cool. Didn't see any bodies though. haha. dang.
Northern Idaho is beautiful by the way. I would live there. Maybe. It was AWESOME cuz I was right in the middle of Korben's soon to be mission field! Yes--Eastern Washington University is in Spokane. Freakin sweet. He's a lucky dude.
I'm so stoked about PT. It's gonna be so amazing.
PS--I saw Uncle Rob's grad picture for Pharmacy School at U of M!!!!! :-D
Last weekend was amazing...having the opportunity to visit the Eastern Washington University and the University of Montana was such a blessing. It's like as soon as I made the decision to do Physical Therapy, everything has fallen into place.
Things were super cramped just traveling to these schools. There was I think 23 of us? and we were all cramped into two 12 passenger vans. It was annoying um...like 90% of the time. Thank goodness for ipods though. and phones! I'm glad I can text. Except there wasn't a lot of service traveling so... yeah.
Anyway, University of Montana is pretty cool. I really like their PT building. Of course, everyone is a hippie there so everything was really laid-back. I really liked how their program was set up though. They are doing research for quadriplegic and paraplegic people where they have them sit in recumbent bikes and they hook electrodes to their legs and then through the computer system, the patients are able to move their legs and have muscle contraction. It's amazing.
I think I liked Eastern Washington University better kinda. The overall atmosphere was a lot more like BYUI. They have a kind of dress code there and things were pretty organized. A couple grad students gave a us a tour of the facilities there and showed us a few labs. One of the labs we walked into was labeled "Anatomy Lab". Okay. I didn't really think anything of it cuz I've been in one before. Well. this was definitely different from the one I had been in. As I was soon about to find out...I walked in and there were ten stainless steel tables--2 rows of 5. Each table had a kind of lid to it that covered the entire table. Each table was about 6 feet long. the lids were like 2 feet high? My reaction was "oh cool! what are these for?" I'm definitely not the brightest crayon in the box... then i realize how cold it is in the room. I take another look at the tables. "OHHHHHHHH...." Yeah. it's a cadaver lab. Never been in one before. But it was definitely veryyyyy cool. Didn't see any bodies though. haha. dang.
Northern Idaho is beautiful by the way. I would live there. Maybe. It was AWESOME cuz I was right in the middle of Korben's soon to be mission field! Yes--Eastern Washington University is in Spokane. Freakin sweet. He's a lucky dude.
I'm so stoked about PT. It's gonna be so amazing.
PS--I saw Uncle Rob's grad picture for Pharmacy School at U of M!!!!! :-D
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
School...
So I'm in school. Back at BYU-I in good ole' rexburg, idaho. or iceburg. whatever you wanna call it. It's cold--it felt like -26 degrees the other day!!! So crazy. It hasn't snowed in a while though. But that only means we're gonna get POUNDED pretty badly in the next week or so.
Anyway, I've finally decided on a career! (i know everyone is celebrating...its a pretty huge deal. haha.) I want to be a Sports Physical Therapist (http://www.prospects.ac.uk/cms/ShowPage/Home_page/Explore_types_of_jobs/Types_of_Job/p!eipaL?state=showocc&idno=153). You know those people who run out on the football fields when players get hurt? Yeah that's what I wanna do. I wanna work for an NFL team (Broncos or Cardinals preferably...) and do physical therapy for them. It'd be SO tight. I can't wait.
And.. I feel like I'm already well on my way. I joined the Pre-Physical/Occupational Therapy Society up here at school and this weekend we're going to Missoula, Montana and Spokane, Washington to check out the universities up there for grad programs and for touring the school and stuff. I still have a LOT left to do...I probably have about 4 years left still, but I know I'm going to be successful in it. And hopefully I'll have a network built up so I can have a shoe in or something. That'd be amazing. Maybe I'll meet Tom Brady... haha.
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