Summer Back Home

So, I have been home in Maryland since April 21st and I have started an internship at Schrier Physical Therapy.  I have learned a lot since I have started working there.  I have learned how to read the charts and know what exercises the therapist want the patients to do.  That is the most important and useful thing I have learned thus far because I need to know what to teach the patients and make sure they are doing the correct activity.  I also learned how to set up the e-stim which is not too hard I just need to know where they muscles are (I still need to re-study all of them!).  I love the people I work with they are great and easy to get along with.  This place is very different from the first place I worked at though.  The first place was more therapist-patient oriented where this place sometimes I am with the patient, sometimes they already know their stretches, or the therapist takes them for one on one time.

I tried to get a job at the Naval Hospital in Bethesda and that was an interesting experience for me.  First of all I have never really had a formal interview so I tried to prepare as best as I knew how.  This was obviously not how everyone else prepared.  Lets just say that I looked like I was in the scene from Legally Blonde where Elle Woods went into her first class with her cute little outfit, notebook, and fuzzy pen.  I waited with everyone else in my khaki pants, floral blazer, striped notebook, and forgot my resume which I had to print there on regular printer paper.  Everyone was there in their nice suits and portfolios.  At that point I was hoping it was my to my advantage that I stood out like a sore thumb!  Well we went into the interview process and it was group interviews in four different “stations” and they asked questions to the group and you had to speak up and answer.  In the end two people from different departments came up to talk to me after the interview and put me on their list.  Unfortunately I didn’t get the job because they needed full time positions and I already had established the internship.  So right now I am not employed which I am not a fan of but I am willing to babysit or do almost anything at this point (yes please call me to put your garbage cans out when you are out of town!)

Well since I have all this free time on my hands I am down at the beach with my family for my grandfather’s 70th birthday and my aunt Juliane’s birthday as well.  It has been fun and a good time because I haven’t seen Geoff, Juliane and the girls in a while and don’t get to see them as much as other family. It hasn’t been the best weather down her but today was very nice and being on the beach was great.  Tomorrow is the last day down here for the weekend and I am hoping it is a good day again because I don’t know they next time I will be down.

Well for the rest of my life during the summer I have online classes, studying for the GRE, and applying to graduate school.  Sounds like a whole lot of fun! haha :)