Where I MIGHT be in five years(woah long time)

Today I am not currently enrolled in school, and the only thing that I have to my name is a high school diploma. Although I graduated from high school almost three years ago I am going to enter my first year of college this fall. I plan to major in human services, and to take all my general ed's for my first year. It's really hard to say where I see myself in five years, I'll be twenty four years old, and I feel older just typing that out. Hopefully I'll be close to being done with college. I hope to at least be transferred from Washtenaw and ideally be enrolled at University of Michigan. I cant say where I see my self relationship wise since mine have been so unpredictable in my short life span, but I really don't see my self settling down that early. I may choose to take a quick step into the medical field and become a phlebotomist, or a medical assistant. That way at least I could support my self with no problems while I decide where I end up. To achieve my goal I just have to stay on the right track, I think i've been doing the right thing as of late and getting alot of good experiences this summer. I've been working every day and really honing the attitude it takes to be responsible and take care of business before having fun. This will hopefully aid me down the road, because I will be going to school and working full time. To be honest, I think the Youth Works program reitterated alot of thing for me, Its definetly targeted towards a younger age group and I feel that my maturity level kind of agitated me while I was in the program. I did get valuable experience from shadowing different health care jobs, such as a medical assitant which im interested in pursueing and the tours we took were very interesting and informational, but the soft skills, financial seminars, and entrepeneurship activities were more common sense than anything and had a very young feel to them, I think next year they should be wary of the age group restriction or if they choose to have a "leadership" position like they had this year, they should tell the appropriate amount of older youth to enter. Instead of leaving some of them hanging, and in a program that is a little to immature for them.

Post 2

Hello again, So my first post was a sort of overview of what my first week in the internship was like. Well, here i am in week three, last week we did not post a blog, 826 Michigan (the very nice people who are teaching us to blog) came to our class room at Stone school to try and spark some ideas for our next entry, that being this one. Since week one a whole lot has happened, I'm afraid I probably wont be able to finish my thoughts in this post but here goes. The movie unnatural causes that i talked about in my first post really opened my eyes to the problems we have in the health world in our country. My interest in the health care field grew one hundred percent and now I feel I need to know more. The movie talked about how we ranked among other countries in health care, and we are not doing so hot. I believe we were number thirty four, behind such unpopular countries as Slovenia, Cuba, and of course the European giants that seem to know what their doing in the health aspect of things. I also learned that our infant mortality rate is about one in fourteen, which is fairly high for a country that has not seen war on its soil since we battled amongst ourselves in the civil war. The huge thing though, was the fact that a lot of people in the United States are uninsured. It made me think, what if their just not trying hard enough to get insured? What if our government is not advertising the fact that you can go to your local department of human services and apply for insurance through the government. If I can do it, I know there are people out there that are not insured that can do it too. I think that we need to stop worrying about medical equipment advancements that are supposedly making it easier to save lives and use what we have to save the lives that were not. Times up, to who ever is reading talk to you next post.

First day

Im participating in a student internship through the community action network in Michigan. There are three different internships that i could have chose from and i chose health care. On our first day we went to a local clinic called the packard health clinic. We met a health care administrator and learned a little bit about what her job entailed, we also got an overview of what we will be doing for the remainder of the time we spend in the internship. After that we watched a movie called "unnatural causes" it was about the problem our country faces in the health care field. The movie was really interesting and overall my first day was good.