My name is Vanessa Cutler, I am a 4th year student who is currently finishing my Degree in Child and Youth Care (CYC). I approached some members of the CYC faculty to talk to them about the idea of me doing my 4th year placement in Ireland. With a great deal of support from the program we moved forward in hopes of making it a reality. So here i am, many months later, starting the last practicum of my degree in Dublin, Ireland. This is my story...
Monday, October 1, 2012
No Fun Being Sick
Monday was a hard morning. I woke up not feeling well at all and so upset because it was my last week here so I needed to make it work. I headed into placement at the regular time but was not doing well at all. I took part in a program meeting with the FAN team and tried to help get everything ready for the groups in the evening. But after only being there a couple hours and after some encouragement from others I decided to go home for a few hours. I slept and woke up and felt a bit better, but was still dragging. I ended up going back into placement because I wanted to be there for the last group time with the girls group I had been working with. I was super glad I did because it was good to be there and to say goodbye as a group. I also think it was important because I wanted to finish up some programming I had started with them. I am worried after today though because I knew this week was going to be crazy busy and kind of sad with it being my last but being sick on top of it is making it so much harder. I feel like I am floating through it a little bit instead of being able to completely be present. But it's hard to do when you feel awful. Hopefully I will get over it fast as I really don't have time for this right now.
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