End of the Week.

I'm finally feeling like this place is home. 
I moved about 16 hours from where I'm from. New state. New people. New school. 

But finally after almost 3 months here, I think I'll be alright :)

We had a potluck at cohort's home last night. It was the first time a big group of us had hung out, outside of class.  It was great to see everyone dressed up and "fancy-free". It feels good to be among your own and people who understand your career.  

We turned in all our application materials yesterday (for our practicum). We register for next semester in about 2 weeks.  I feel like this semester has flown by and we'll finally be doing something!  We had to fill out a form about places we wouldn't feel comfortable working, which everyone jokes is really asking us because they will put us there.  We'll see if that's the case. I put that I did not want to work in a prison or any kind of halfway house.  I guess if I did have to work in a place to get me out of my comfort zone, I would rather it be there now than in my concentration all year.

I've recently become interested in social work in hospitals, specifically oncology.  I need to do some more research into it though. We have groups present hot topics in our Human Behavior class and last week a group did one on suburban youth.  It wasn't news to me, I work at a camp with these kids every summer. I would even venture to guess that some of the stats for drugs, sex, alcohol, etc. might even be higher than those of urban youth.  My dream job would be to work in private schools with these youth.  But I know it will never happen, because these rich kids don't have any problems, right?