Catching Up?!

Its been a long time since I posted anything... I have been mad busy working and all that I haven't had much time, I haven't even replied to any emails or sent any to any one even for Christmas! I have been super slack- so sorry!

I had six days straight at work last week- 24th til 29th and also worked today 7-3.  I am doing a 10 hour shift on Thursday night from 9pm til 7am the following morning- it will be my second ever night shift!  The last one I did on no sleep the day before and then managed to sleep for four hours the next day even with 5 kids running around the house.

I worked right through Christmas day, as I work at a hospital they don't exactly get to have any holidays and close the place down for the public holidays like majority of places around the country.  We work around the clock and there is always staff in the hospital- during the night there is only one nurse and two caregivers and then the day time there is a lot more including management.

I will try and fill you in on more in the New Year at some point.

Hope you had a great Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Uni....... again.

Thought I may as well let you all know, after months of anticipation in finding out if I am going to be accepted into the the BN (Bachelor of Nursing) at Massey in Albany, today I knew they would contact me.... I received the email, but frustratingly they have only said that it will now be mid January before they let anyone know because of the inundation of applications in the last week of November-- the week that applications closed.

So with all that, I will let you know in January now if I am going to university or not basically next year.  I should find out around the same time that my NCEA results get released as well!!!

Night Shift

Last night I did my first night shift as a caregiver at work.  They put me, having never done one before- didn't know what I was doing like... Another caregiver that had only been there three weeks and then the nurse who was also relatively new.  We managed to do everything right, have a really good night, with no problems and I came out of it awake ;)

Night shifts are 11pm til 7am and as I wasn't able to sleep before going into work (I tried and failed) I was awake for 24 hours before getting sleep this morning between 8am and 2pm.

Doing night shift isn't really that bad, and in a couple weeks I am down to do another one.

High school is over forever!

Yesterday I officially like, properly, signed out and finished high school forever! I never have to go back!

Exams are over, boring classes are over, learning stuff I'm never going to need is over, everything is over... associated with high school that is!

I got given my year book, and all of the Year 13 mug shots are in it... They were photos taken over the course of the year when the prefects in charge of taking them were able to get those that needed their shots taken- majority were taken during form time and are different to our main school photos that were taken at the beginning of the year for our portrait photos and class photos.

Last Friday I also officially gained the Level 3 certificate in Early Childhood Education and Care through the gateway/ STAR program through school, done through PORSE, I just have to complete the application to get the certificate sent to me.  With this, I am the only one in the school to have ever gone on to complete this certificate during school time and so since I hadn't done it by graduation (they wanted to acknowledge it then) the careers department took a photo of my yesterday to put in the school newsletters.

I am now waiting on hearing from Massey University to find out if I have been accepted into Nursing or not, if I have then thats all well and good, if I haven't I have to figure out what next year is going to entail.

Over summer I have been given all my work shifts up until January 12th for over the christmas period where a lot of the staff are off.  I have pretty much full time work from the 20th Dec through till the 12th Jan.