So Close

This week has been so tiring and stressful. I am very ready for Thanksgiving and the break. It was my last week at the school food service which made me happy. I had to travel to many different schools and had some frustrations with traveling far to schools and the information not even counting. Luckily one of the interns from a different school was with me so we made the best of it all and decided to get donuts her last day to treat ourselves. I got great reviews from the director at the school district which made me very happy.

I have been working a ton and think I might ask them to cut it down to 3 or 4 days instead of 5 a week. I am so tired and I got stuck with Friday and Saturday close shifts this weekend so I work until at least 12 midnight. Luckily tomorrow I get to work the lunch shift so I will be off by 4.

This morning we ran a Halloween 5K, Brittany my roommate and our friend Shana. It was so much fun and I knocked close to 3 minutes off my practice times. I think it was around 24:30 which I was pretty proud of. If there wasn't a big hill at the end I think I could have done it under 24 minutes. Once pictures and official results are up I will post them so everyone can see.

I'm really looking forward to a relaxing Sunday after work and for a Skype Halloween Dinner/Movie Date with Eric. It's really exciting that we are down to only 20 days until he visits. Compared to the 104 days/ 15 weeks we started with 20 days feels like nothing. I am already trying to plan so much stuff to fit in for those 5 days he's here.

On Monday I am to be starting my clinicals at Ben Taub Hospital. There may be a problem with all of my records being processed though. I think there was some miscommunication and I will have to go in on Monday and hopefully I can get everything processed fast and start the rotation this week. I am looking forward to the hospitals for a change of pace. I will be at this same hospital until January 20. It is all three of my clinical rotations. Thinking about that makes me realize how fast this is actually going. Texas has been teaching me a lot and I am very excited to get back to Illinois in May and start my career. It sounds so weird that this time next year I will be in the real world working.

I miss everyone so much and I am SO excited to be coming home soon. In less than a month I will be in Illinois and I am already planning so that I can see everyone while I am home.

Surprises

So this week was pretty long like all the others. It was a good week and taught me that I do not want to work in an office staring at a computer all day. I also got to work in the production area at the Houston Independent School district. This was 4 hours in the bakery where I helped package yellow cake and make extremely big batches of brownies. I was covered in brownie mix by lunch time...luckily they gave me an apron and gloves. Then after lunch we were sent to cold foods for 2 hours. This was basically a room set to the temperature of a freezer. I know my hands were freezing so I'm not sure how these workers do it everyday. The rest of the week was standard with going to schools and doing work in the office.

At work I got my first pay check which made my whole Friday. I also got a star because the hosts got perfect scores. I was very excited and really enjoyed working in the fast pace Friday night. I had to work again this morning and decided to wake up early to run. A few friends and I are running a 5K next Saturday so I am getting back into running. Then I went to work and it was a pretty normal morning shift. I got home and had a package waiting for me...one dozen AMAZING red roses from Eric. Yesterday was our 16 month anniversary and he made my whole day.

Now I am going out with some of the girls tonight and then back to work tomorrow morning. The next few weeks are going to fly by and in 27 days I will be picking Eric up from the airport for his Houston vacation. I can't wait!

Long Week

So this week was my first week working and having the internship and it was SO tiring. Luckily my schedule will be more work on weekends from now on so I won't have to be out of the apartment for over 12 hours a day.

This week at my internship I was working at a school everyday teaching PreK through Fifth grade students about nutrition. It was a very interesting experience, especially since most of the children were bilingual and some only spoke Spanish. I learned a lot of new words for foods. This is what I would want to do if I worked in a school district. I loved teaching the kids and seeing how much they know and want to learn.

Three days this week after my internship I also went to work. It wasn't too bad except that I ended up getting a pretty intense cold Wednesday and I am just starting to feel better with the rest I have gotten this weekend. I got through the week and am ready for the third week of this four week rotation. Time is flying by and I am learning so much from both the internship and the job.

I was so excited to find out that my apartment complex does a decorating contest for Halloween and I am so going to win since no one else has anything up yet. Here is the one picture I have. You can't see the lights in the window and there are a few things that still need to be put up. I will take another picture at night when it is all set up and post it. They judge on Halloween and announce the winner on November 1...and there is a prize!

I am so excited to be coming home in about 6 weeks. As beautiful as Houston is, I do miss the fall weather. It is still around mid 80's everyday here with the mornings being my prime fall weather of 60. I know that in December and January I will be praising Houston and it's nice weather.

Well onto another week where I hope to get back into my workout routine and maybe get a project done for class. Miss everyone!

And the Work Begins...

So I would have updated earlier but I had no internet from the time I got off work Friday until Monday when I got home. It was an AMAZING weekend. Christa was here all weekend and we had so much fun. Friday was pretty much just Walmart and Target shopping for things we really didn't need. Then we got up on Saturday and went to the Galleria all day. We shopped for close to five hours and got some great deals. We then went out to dinner and ate WAY too much but it was so good. On Sunday I dropped her off at the airport early.

Sunday was my first day of my new part-time job. I am a host at BJ's Brewhouse and I was pretty nervous. My first two days went pretty well. I learned how to seat and greet people. Today will be my last day of training and then I start really working next Monday. The thing I have noticed is seeing food all the time makes me hungry and everything always looks so good.

Yesterday was also my first day at the Houston Independent School District. This rotation is very different than my last one. I have been in the office both days so far and I am excited to get back into the schools. Tomorrow I will be in a elementary school all day helping with meal service and then a middle school on Thursday for the same thing. Friday is the best day because my mom is coming to visit and I arranged my day so I could get off early and pick her up from the airport.

Next week me and the three other interns get to go to one of the elementary schools and teach the preschool through fifth grade students in their PE classes about nutrition. I am excited to get out in to the schools and interact directly with the students.

This rotation is my last food service rotation and I will be there for four weeks. Halloween will be my first day in my clinical rotations. There are three of these and they are all at the same place for me. Thinking about everything is making me realize this internship will be over before I know it. It has so far been a great experience and I am learning so many things from both the internship and everyone I have met.