Another semester is drawing near and I think I have rejuvenated my batteries and am ready for a big stint of study, I am going to be doing 6 semesters straight with the minimal break in between each one, so wish me luck with my sanity! But for now I think I am ready to tackle the new semester! One thing that is bothering me is I am doing another clinical placement this semester, and this one is not a block, it's integrated, 2 days a week for 10 weeks, which would usually be an awesome thing for me to do what with 4 kids and a hubby to organise myself around, but my clinical placement is in the same town as my Uni, which is an hours drive each way! Not a big deal usually, but depending on which days I have to do for my clinical I may have to drive there 3 times a week! I'm praying that I can at least get 2 consecutive days, and it would be even better if I got them the 2 days after my day at uni... but guess I'll have to wait and see about that.
Right now I'm not too nervous about the clinical, but I know as times gets closer to actually do it I will be getting very anxious. I always stress about who will watch the kids if I get shifts while my hubby is working on his odd shifts, I stress about 'Can I actually do this?', this is my biggest problem! I have lots of self doubt even though I am doing well at uni and passing all my subjects, doing the hands on stuff with real patients where mistakes can be dangerous scares the crap out of me! So I try to not think about it until a few days before it has to happen so then I hopefully don't stress everyone else in my family out as well.
So back to tackling this semester... I am waiting for the uni to put up sem 1 subject so I can get myself organised with printing and what ever else needs to be done. I am all set for books and stuff, just waiting on some notes from a friend who has done one of my subjects already :) any bit of help is great I can tell you!
I have really missed doing uni this semester, but with everything that has been happening with my cute little family, I'm glad I didn't do any subjects because it would have gotten about 40% of my attention. Taking a break has given me the time to spend with my kids and have fun with them, which when I am studying over the Christmas semester, I usually am head down, bum up. So I have loved the chance to just go and do things with my family, like fishing at the last minute, or have a water fight in the yard, and just spend quality time with them in general. It really opens your eyes to how much you miss when you are studying once you take a break and look back on what you have done instead of being stuck to a textbook!
So I guess this will all be continued once I find out my days that I will have clinical... fingers crossed it's not a Monday, cause that would suck and I would need a babysitter for the night and someone to take kids to school the next day!
Keep watching lol this post wasn't very interesting but I'm glad I did it and can appreciate the time I have spent with my kids and hubby this Christmas :)
