Done

Well, its done. School is finally over, for the most part. I finished up with finals last week and am now on spring break-YAY. I start again on April 6th but this time no classroom education, its all out in the clinic-another YAY. I am so glad to be done with the testing, homework, and honestly the drive in to class everyday.

I will be doing a pediatric rotation first, which should be interesting, followed by a out-patient rotation. It will be a bit different not going in to school everyday and seeing all of my friends but being out in the 'real world' is going to make the last year and a half of school so worth it. I feel pretty comfortable out in the clinic and so that should make for a pretty fun time.

Today I kicked off spring break with a race, as in years past the Lewiston Duathlon was the weekend after finals. Its been kind of a nice race to do in the simple fact that it is right as I get done with the quarter, so I use it kind of as a celebration of being done. This year was a good one, had a good bike time and a fast runner. We ended up 2nd overall and had a great time with friends. I am getting a bit sleepy however, due to the waking up at 5 AM in order to get down to Lewiston in time to get a warm up in for the 10 AM race start. Looks like it may be a early night for me.

I forgot to take pictures today at the race, so I have none to post-oopps. Had the camera in my back pocket and everything.

Two years of work coming to an end.

So it is here, well almost. For the past two years as most of you know that are reading this, I have been in school in the Physical Therapist Assistant Program. When I started this journey almost two years ago, this day was SO far from my thoughts. Well, its about here. Next week will be my last full week of classroom education in the program, then after spring break it will be time for me to head out to my clinical rotations. Scary thought kind of, exciting for sure though.

Two years has as everyone said it would, flew by. There were definitely times that it crawled by and times I thought I really couldn't handle the stress anymore. However through friends and family I have pulled through it and am now in the phase of the program where I get to put all of this knowledge to actual use on actual patients. Lets just hope I can handle the stress of a few more finals and a few more things to finish up. If the past two years have been any kind of a indication though I will be just fine, like I said my friends and family have been there through it all and I'm sure will be there for one last time of my stressing out about tests, lab practicals and everything else that I have to finish up.

Here's to the next 10 days going by fast.