Paul, Session One, Journal It is extremely difficult to pick only one life experience that will affect my time at Colorado Christian University. The big event in my life and one of the many reasons why I am attending CCU, was the day that I decided that I was going to become a Pastor. Before I get into this experience I need to state first that I come from a family where my father is a Physicist and my mother is a Nursing Assistant who served in the Army during Vietnam, and was stationed at Fort Ord in Monterrey, California. Growing up I was going to be a Nurse just like my mother. Then one day I asked my parents why our next door neighbor was going to a thing called church but we were not. This started the transformation of my life. Once my
In what other ways have your experiences and involvement here at SDSU shaped who you are?
Today was one more of those average days. Saving the world, climbing big ben and snooping around Buckingham Palace. I don’t understand why everyone underestimates me. For all they know I could be putting myself in mortal danger. My headquarters is on the corner of Clapham Junction. I
"U.S Army Medical Department." Army Nurse Corps. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Aug. 2013. . This Website gave me information on how to be a nurse in the military.
However, I believe God has lead me to Pepperdine to discover my true calling. Pepperdine will challenge me and help me discover the vocation God has planned for me. Pepperdine also had the tools to help me pursue my own personal career goals.
what I wanted to become. So after graduation I decided to explore my options at
4 She served in the Army Nurse Corps and was assigned to 312th Field Station Hospital from 1943-1945 in England, when the American School of Military Psychiatric was located.
A major life event that started me to pursue an education in nursing was my time in basic training. The most life changing event during my induction into the army at ft. Jackson before starting basic training was accepting Christ as my personal lord and savior. When I decided to go into the Army 4 years out of high school I was a student firefighter E.M.T. working towards my paramedic, incidents at the Dept. I worked at both before and after some traumatic emergency responses actually turned me away from practicing any sort of medicine and causing me to seek the military for a new career or to pay for me to go back to school for another career if the military wasn’t my thing. During Basic training as stated above I was already a licensed E.M.T.
I interned a cardiologist where I got to see the life of a physician as he went about his daily routine. I achieved getting my Certified Nursing Assistant license after assisting patients at a nursing home. I became a camp counselor for the Muscular Dystrophy Association, where I took care of a 10-year-old child during a summer camp. Through these experiences, I gained confidence in my character and purposefulness. Furthermore, I went on a mission trip to Kenya where I experienced life in a third world country. It was here where my eyes were opened to see a world that is in dire need of help. These people are malnourished, living in detrimental conditions without accessible health care. The experiences I had in Kenya reminded me to never take anything for granted. My engagement acting on all these opportunities fueled my perseverance to pursue my career in health
one that has had a more profound affect on me than The Five People you Meet in
It was in my second year of college, upon transferring to Hofstra University, when I realized how much harder my experience as a foster youth made college for me. Because of this, I decided to dissect Administrative Children 's Services
When I reached my mid-thirty 's, I began to feel like all of my ambitions were flushed down the drain. Feeling too old to go back to school, but too young to be taken seriously, I felt stuck in life with no place to go. Sure, I was a single mother of three with more activities in one day than most have in a week, but I still felt like something was absent in my life. One day I was sitting on the couch watching TV, and a commercial came on for an adult learning college . Right away I knew that I could take this leap into the unknown. Although, this was not the right school for me, it did however point me to the right direction. It was God was directing me to CCU by providing me with a fresh start to a new vocation, based around Christian worldviews.
to go in life. I then transferred to the University of Charleston, where I am
Before this I was 16 and had no idea where I wanted to go in my life. With graduation approaching the pressure to decide on a career was getting greater and greater. I always felt in my heart that I needed to do something that would have a positive impact on other people and not just myself, and that I needed to use what God has blessed me with to help people. Being in that environment and around all those sick children made me feel something that I had never felt before. I felt a sense of compassion, inspiration, and a desire to change someone's life by loving and caring for them when they can’t care for themselves, like the nurses did for those patients. Little
During my seventh grade year, my church went to a youth rally at a local church on weekend. Because of this rally and the message it sent, I realized and wanted to give my life to Jesus through baptism. It was awesome, I got home as a young teenager and actually talked to my mom about what it really means to be a Christian and to pick up your cross and follow him. So that very next weekend, my dad baptized me in front of the whole church on Sunday morning. It was an awesome feeling knowing that because of Jesus’ grace and mercy, I will be with him one day and spend eternity with him. Although I was on top of the world at this point, I still didn’t know fully what I had gotten into. So the next few years, I live the typical Christian life. I was trying to be the perfect person by doing the right stuff, I would try not to cuss, I would try to wear as many WWJD bracelets as I could so that I wouldn’t have to talk to them about Christ and they could just see it on my wrist, I would not join in on conversations with my friends that I knew were not right, I was just living life on cruise control.
In 1996, my mother graduated from Eastern Kentucky University with a baccalaureate in Nursing. Although it took her five years, we are still proud of her and all that she has accomplished. Today my mom is still working as an RN. Although she just quit her job at Berea Hospital, where she had been for four years, she is beginning a new style of nursing.