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Name: Kara
Country: United States
State: Michigan
Birthday: 9/17/1984
Gender: Female
Interests: Running, playing sports, watching hockey or gymnastics, reading, writing, God, watching movies, listening to people, laughing, volunteering, art (especially ceramics and sculpture), shopping, hanging out with my friends, and psychology.
Expertise: Changing my major, the custodial arts, quoting What About Bob with my brothers, editing term papers
Occupation: Student
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Member Since:
10/20/2005
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| Wow, I haven't updated this in a LONG time. And what better time to update than now, when I should be doing homework? Actually, I would be watching Law and Order: SVU, but I turned on the TV too late. SVU is like X-Files. You can't miss the opening scene. Oh....I miss X-Files. Oh wait, I have FX....I bet it's on that channel! I've just been using FX to watch Black/White. Wow, it sounds like I watch a lot of TV. I really don't. Oh shoot...I missed Scrubs tonight, didn't I?! Oh wow, I usually don't watch that much TV. I usually don't have a TV. But the TV happens to be on a lot, and I have ADD so my attention usually goes to the box that's catered to my ADD needs. (I've never been officially diagnosed, so I'm just guessing.)
Anyway, when I last updated I was trying to decide between teaching and art therapy. And I've decided on teaching. Maybe I'll get a master's degree in art therapy if I have a midlife crisis. Then I would do art therapy sessions after school. But as for now, I am a Language Arts major and a Health/Phys. Ed minor. If you're thinking the Health/Phys. Ed minor is random, it only sort of is. Gym class was my favorite class, even in high school, so why not?
Living in Chicago is really fun. This Friday, I'm going to sleep outside with the homeless people, in the Chicago Sleep Out. That should be a good experience. There's homeless people everywhere in Chicago- you can't help but be affected by that.
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| Coming to Chicago is probably the second best decision I have made for
myself. (Aquinas was the first.) I am still searching. I'm still trying
to figure out if this is right for me. The advice I was given by an art
therapist- take the classes that will keep your options way open. So I
don't know. I think I want a more positive job though. One that focuses
on prevention. I don't know what that job is.
Then again, I
really just want to be a homemaker. Clean, cook, sew, raise my kids,
and volunteer at their schools.(Field trips, hot lunches, recess, etc.)
But that's not very realistic these days, so we'll see.
Yesterday
was the progessive dinner. (3 apartments do appetizers, 3 do main dish,
and 3 do dessert.) You try to go to all of them. I hosted main dish. I
dedicated all of yesterday to it, and it was a lot of fun. In the
morning, I found a chili recipe. My roommate went to Jewel's (the
store) with me to find all the ingredients and carry them home. I spent
the rest of the day making the chili. Having never made chili before, I
was really nervous, and wondering how all these ingredients I was
putting together would taste right, especially since I was changing a
couple things. But it turned out great- all of it was gone by the end,
and everyone loved it. And I love playing hostess, so that was fun, too. | | |
| It really is amazing how busy you can be on a day in which you don't have to work. I have a lot of homework to do today and a lot of errands to run. I'm not working today because my supervisor (the art therapist) is in the Phillipines with her family, so my practicum group leader is currently helping me to find a place to volunteer at in the meantime. I did work at the site for two days last week. It was a good experience. I read the charts of the patients, observed the group therapy sessions, chatted with the kids and my colleages, took a drug test, swapped recipes, watched video about the HIV virus with the adolescents, and watched a movie called "Honey" about a hip-hop dance teacher with the kids. They were having trouble finding things for me to do, so they were like, "You really don't need to come in next week, or really the week after either." So here I am. | | |
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