Sunday, November 20, 2005
dum dee dum
Time flies when you're havin fun. I t's funny how I spend so much time on the net yet I cant think of anything good to say here. Again, Ive spent 5 hours in front of this friggin monitor surfin for whatever-appears-on-my-screen. Now my eyes hurt, my head is throbbing and im dizzy. My eyes are screaming for me to stop looking at the screen yet I do nothing. Im cruel. I know. And I know Im gonna regret this when I wake up one day and I see nothing but darkness.
PANIC
Last week was.... busy. First half of it was spent mostly on my resource unit due last Wednesday.
Actually,I havnt been spending much time for my requirements as I should have. My paper was due on Wednesday at 5pm, but we have a clinical orientation at 7am and pre-data collection at 2pm, so had to get it done by 7am. I had the whole night of Tuesday to type away. Unfortunately, laziness got the best of me so I decided to take a quick nap since it was still 10 pm. I set my alarm to 12 midnight. That would give me 6 hours to finish my paper before I prepare of my class at 7am the next day. To my surprise, I woke up at 4:45am!!! I panicked and headed straight to the pc. I knew all along that I wouldnt be able to finish my 15-page paper in just 1.5 hours but I started typing anyway.
6am came and I had only finished 5 pages since I still had to rephrase everything from the book. On that moment, I had three choices, either: 1.) I skip class and finish my paper 2.) I finish my paper and go to class late 3.) ask someone to finish typing my paper.
Choice #1 is impossible since it was orientation day and I SHOULDNT miss it or else everything will go bananas for the rest of the sem. Choice #2 is also a big no-no since my adviser was VERY lenient with time. And it was our first meeting so I wouldnt dare leave a bad image or else she'll be pinning me down til the end of the sem. So I was left with nothing but choice#3. But who? My friends? Nah..they all have classes too. My brother? He just came from hospital duty and has just started dozing off, so no, I cant ask him. My dad? Duh, he has work. So who else? No one else but my mom. Knowing that she knows almost nothing about computers, I hestitated and desperately tried to think of another option. But with no time and too much panic in my head, I went ahead and asked her if she could do it for me. After a few minutes of crash course on typing, I was on my way to school. The whole time I was in class, I was watching my fone in case my mom had questions about my paper. Fortunately, we were dismissed before 11 so I went straight home finding my mother still in front of the pc. hankfully, nothing went wrong and she was only 4 pages away. So I took over and thanked her for saving my butt. I finished at at around 2. I was able to pass it on time and I was able to join the pre-data collection. That was pretty nerve-wracking. And yeah, thanks mom. :)
Last friday, we went to bais to pilot test our structured health teaching. Since we are tackling about sex education, we had to gather as many resources as we could (which includes purchasing a VCD from F.A.D., borrowing vidoes from the LRC, and consulting every repro health teacher we could think of) and make our own instrument for the structured health teaching. Before we can implement our health teaching to our target population (which is publich high school students from Dumaguete City), we have to pilot test the instrument in another city for pararellism. So we chose Bais City since it has a similar environment.
So after weeks of brainstorming, never-ending proof reading, and 1000php poorer, we finally organized all our resources. We headed to Bais at around 8am and arrived there at 9. We started at around 9:15, went on a lunch break at 12noon, resumed the class at 1 and ended at 3:30. by 4pm, we were on our way home. It was successful. Eventhough most of us were exhausted from the days work, we couldnt help but feel proud and fullfilled. 1 school down, 3 more to go. Im actually excited with this whole data gathering thing. I just hope everything turns out well til the last school.
Next week will we duty week. Im actually excited and nervous. Everyone who goes on duty can atest to how I feel. Its actually fun, except for the downside: all our paper requirements are to be HANDWRITTEN. Apparently, a lot of students were caught copy-pasting their papers so this sem, they decided to have everything written to prevent us from making the same mistakes again. :( Goodbye pc, hello ballpen. :(
But we do have a break on Thursday & Friday since it's the town fiesta. But it would still be a long day for us since we'd be going back to Bais for our post test. Then it will be back to school on Saturday for a whole day of ward class. COllege of Nursing knows no weekends. :(
Have to go, I have to psych myself for tomorrow's duty. Wish me luck. Pray that I dont do anything stupid in the hospital, and worse, pray that I dont kill anyone. Hehe. Toodles!
PANIC
Last week was.... busy. First half of it was spent mostly on my resource unit due last Wednesday.
Actually,I havnt been spending much time for my requirements as I should have. My paper was due on Wednesday at 5pm, but we have a clinical orientation at 7am and pre-data collection at 2pm, so had to get it done by 7am. I had the whole night of Tuesday to type away. Unfortunately, laziness got the best of me so I decided to take a quick nap since it was still 10 pm. I set my alarm to 12 midnight. That would give me 6 hours to finish my paper before I prepare of my class at 7am the next day. To my surprise, I woke up at 4:45am!!! I panicked and headed straight to the pc. I knew all along that I wouldnt be able to finish my 15-page paper in just 1.5 hours but I started typing anyway.
6am came and I had only finished 5 pages since I still had to rephrase everything from the book. On that moment, I had three choices, either: 1.) I skip class and finish my paper 2.) I finish my paper and go to class late 3.) ask someone to finish typing my paper.
Choice #1 is impossible since it was orientation day and I SHOULDNT miss it or else everything will go bananas for the rest of the sem. Choice #2 is also a big no-no since my adviser was VERY lenient with time. And it was our first meeting so I wouldnt dare leave a bad image or else she'll be pinning me down til the end of the sem. So I was left with nothing but choice#3. But who? My friends? Nah..they all have classes too. My brother? He just came from hospital duty and has just started dozing off, so no, I cant ask him. My dad? Duh, he has work. So who else? No one else but my mom. Knowing that she knows almost nothing about computers, I hestitated and desperately tried to think of another option. But with no time and too much panic in my head, I went ahead and asked her if she could do it for me. After a few minutes of crash course on typing, I was on my way to school. The whole time I was in class, I was watching my fone in case my mom had questions about my paper. Fortunately, we were dismissed before 11 so I went straight home finding my mother still in front of the pc. hankfully, nothing went wrong and she was only 4 pages away. So I took over and thanked her for saving my butt. I finished at at around 2. I was able to pass it on time and I was able to join the pre-data collection. That was pretty nerve-wracking. And yeah, thanks mom. :)
Last friday, we went to bais to pilot test our structured health teaching. Since we are tackling about sex education, we had to gather as many resources as we could (which includes purchasing a VCD from F.A.D., borrowing vidoes from the LRC, and consulting every repro health teacher we could think of) and make our own instrument for the structured health teaching. Before we can implement our health teaching to our target population (which is publich high school students from Dumaguete City), we have to pilot test the instrument in another city for pararellism. So we chose Bais City since it has a similar environment.
So after weeks of brainstorming, never-ending proof reading, and 1000php poorer, we finally organized all our resources. We headed to Bais at around 8am and arrived there at 9. We started at around 9:15, went on a lunch break at 12noon, resumed the class at 1 and ended at 3:30. by 4pm, we were on our way home. It was successful. Eventhough most of us were exhausted from the days work, we couldnt help but feel proud and fullfilled. 1 school down, 3 more to go. Im actually excited with this whole data gathering thing. I just hope everything turns out well til the last school.
Next week will we duty week. Im actually excited and nervous. Everyone who goes on duty can atest to how I feel. Its actually fun, except for the downside: all our paper requirements are to be HANDWRITTEN. Apparently, a lot of students were caught copy-pasting their papers so this sem, they decided to have everything written to prevent us from making the same mistakes again. :( Goodbye pc, hello ballpen. :(
But we do have a break on Thursday & Friday since it's the town fiesta. But it would still be a long day for us since we'd be going back to Bais for our post test. Then it will be back to school on Saturday for a whole day of ward class. COllege of Nursing knows no weekends. :(
Have to go, I have to psych myself for tomorrow's duty. Wish me luck. Pray that I dont do anything stupid in the hospital, and worse, pray that I dont kill anyone. Hehe. Toodles!
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