Week One: Adventures and Interventions

Week one of my 6 month internship is complete!! Woohoo! I survived and only got a little lost in the hospital one time. The week started off with a bang with me reading a ton of policies, but also getting to observe on day one. By the end of the week my eyes were have crossed from reading, BUT I got to lead an activity on the ukulele with a girl in isolation and hold or play the guitar with the babies. good stuff!

Now on to the adventures portion of this little post.... I ride the bus to and fro every day and have the schedule pretty much worked out. Naturally, I thought I missed my stop the first day and almost made a DISASTROUS mistake because of that, but it all turned out okay! Today I tested out the bus ride to and from Target, and once again, there were almost horrible consequences of me not being able to find my bus stop to get picked up there. Google maps was wrong. W-R-O-N-G about where it was located. Luckily I was ready to go thirty minutes before I needed to be so I had plenty of time to wander around while mom told me where it should, SHOULD, be.

This morning I visited this lovely little shop called, Sheehan's Irish Imports, which is right up the street from me. If any of you know me, then you know that I am a wee bit obsessed with Irish culture and history, so this shop was love at first sight! One of the women who worked there brought me some Irish tea as I perused the lovely merchandise, ranging from jewelry to pottery to musical instruments to books to religious medals to Irish blessings to clothing to wall hangings to food to... pretty much anything you could ever want from Ireland. Except maybe an accent, although they did have instructional books to help you learn to speak Irish! I will be making many more trips back there, as well as to Browne's Irish Market. KC has a HUGE Irish/other obsessive people population here. They also gave an Irish music school. I might just have to take a few tin whistle classes!

Another place right up the street (and two doors down from Sheehan's) is Bethlehem Bakery, a Middle Eastern bakery and eatery. I have had some of their handmade pita bread, and it is fantastic!

Anyhoo that's all for now. I have things to plan for the session I get to co-lead next week. woo!