Well my first trip to the Seattle area has been fun! Other than having to work all week and get up early at the clinic, I've gotten to do some pretty good stuff.
First weekend in town I got to watch my Rangers lose to the Mariners, yeahhhh....
I also went on my first sober camping trip and made s'mores for the first time. They are delicious!! I went with one of my classmates who is also in the area and 2 of her friends. Good times.
We explored a cave, and played beer pong. On the way home we cruised by Mt Rainier. It was cool, and I was shocked to be able to walk around in shorts and a T-shirt and there still be snow on the ground!!! That was ridiculous!!
I got to see the Blue Angels perform, they are absolutely amazing!! The things they do in those planes are awesome!
I went on a whale watching tour and got to see several killer whales in the middle of the water. They are really beautiful. Who knew? Also rode my first ferry to get to the island where we started our tour.
I also went on a little death tour. I visited the graves of Bruce and Brandon Lee, the Kurt Cobain Memorial park bench, and the Jimi Hendrix memorial. They were all pretty cool given the inhabitants and circumstances :)
Pictures of all this and more will be up soon. I've still got a few more days to capture some memories :)
Now, I couldn't really come to Seattle without talking about the weather now could I? So today is the first time it has rained since I've been here (almost 6 wks) and most days were actually really sunny and warm! As a matter of fact I was in town when Seattle hit the highest temp in it's entire history!! I believe it topped out at 103 degrees!! Sad and surprising thing to me was that only about 10-15% of the people here have air conditioning!! Coming from OK and TX that is a completely foreign concept to me. Luckily Erica and Jim (my friend I'm staying with) have AC so it wasn't bad here. Other people were miserable. Sleeping in basements or outside or with ice bags in their pillows!! I don't know how many times I heard people asking each other if they had AC and it never ceased to surprise me. I'm just not used to hearing that question!!
I've enjoyed my time here so far, but I'm ready to get back to LA and sleep in my place and be around all my things and spend some time on the beach before school starts. Just get back to a little more of my regular routine and work out schedule :)
I am excited that when I get home on Friday that Cher and 2 of my good friends from Dallas (Lee and Liz) will be in town and I'll get to hang out with all of them for a few days. Should be a fun time as long as Lee doesn't kill me!!!
School starts in 2 weeks so it's time to have some fun and stop this early morning bull shit I've had to deal with for the past 5+ wks!!!
Monday, August 10, 2009
Summer Clinical
Otherwise known as "let's really point out how much I DON'T know!!"
This has been an interesting 6 weeks. My first 3 were in Everett WA at a PT and sports performance clinic. I learned a lot about functional exercises and got some interesting experiences with speed & agility camps, but it was overshadowed by the thick cloud of tension hanging over the clinic. It wasn't a great experience because of the way it was run. My clinical instructor (CI) actually left her job there and moved to Tennessee to get out from under the bad situation.
That left me being transferred to another clinic in Mukilteo WA which has been much better so far. My new CI is good, but I don't completely agree with his scheduling philosophy. I think he schedules too many patients at a time and occasionally they are left waiting before he can get to them. On the other hand though, it has allowed me to jump right in and continue working with patients and progressing their programs.
The clinic itself is a much better set up though. No tension and every one seems to actually like each other. My old CI was good, but wasn't really given the time needed to teach me. My new CI is very good and makes his own schedule so he can better handle having a student around, which as benefited me.
These 6 weeks have gone by fast, and I'm glad I finally feel like I'm learning some things and feel like I'm actually catching up to my classmates. It's been a good time, but it's also been a sobering reminder of how far I still have to go and how much I still have to learn!!
I finish up my stint here in WA on Friday, then back to LA to enjoy what's left of my summer before school starts on the 24th!
This has been an interesting 6 weeks. My first 3 were in Everett WA at a PT and sports performance clinic. I learned a lot about functional exercises and got some interesting experiences with speed & agility camps, but it was overshadowed by the thick cloud of tension hanging over the clinic. It wasn't a great experience because of the way it was run. My clinical instructor (CI) actually left her job there and moved to Tennessee to get out from under the bad situation.
That left me being transferred to another clinic in Mukilteo WA which has been much better so far. My new CI is good, but I don't completely agree with his scheduling philosophy. I think he schedules too many patients at a time and occasionally they are left waiting before he can get to them. On the other hand though, it has allowed me to jump right in and continue working with patients and progressing their programs.
The clinic itself is a much better set up though. No tension and every one seems to actually like each other. My old CI was good, but wasn't really given the time needed to teach me. My new CI is very good and makes his own schedule so he can better handle having a student around, which as benefited me.
These 6 weeks have gone by fast, and I'm glad I finally feel like I'm learning some things and feel like I'm actually catching up to my classmates. It's been a good time, but it's also been a sobering reminder of how far I still have to go and how much I still have to learn!!
I finish up my stint here in WA on Friday, then back to LA to enjoy what's left of my summer before school starts on the 24th!
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