Thank goodness!! I got in to the class I need

What a crazy week with regard to school.  Thank goodness I was one of those who got into the practicum class in the Fall.  I really did not want to have to wait to graduate.  I want to move on to my new career and the sooner I can do that, the better.  So now the issue has become, finding a field site to get hours and supervision at. 

I sent a resume and personal statement to a place today.  It is close to home, school and my current employer which would be a big help with the commuting between these different places.  I'm both excited and anxious about doing field work.  Finally will get to apply what I am learning in the classroom to real world stuff.  Talk about a scary deal.  Of course, nave to do it eventually.  I'm making a big change in my career path.  Currently I am a project manager for a construction testing and inspection firm in So Cal.  I handle budgets and review inspection and test reports.  Boring stuff.  What I am going to school to do is a completely different thing.  Working with people who are having issues in their lives and helping them to sort through their feelings etc. 

I am thinking I want to work with children and adolescents.  I am a big kid at heart.  Heck I have more video games than most kids do.  I also ride a motorcycle (Kawasaki ZX6R) which is considered pretty cool especially since I'm a "girl".  I think I can relate pretty well to kids.  We'll see if that is true.  For one of my classes we have to come up with a "creative" intervention to use with children and/or adolescents.  Here is my idea tho it is just a basic idea that can be expanded on...

Create a family or different families in The Sims on my PC and take snapshots of various things happening.  Print out the snapshots and have the child/adolescent use them to create a "story" and turn that into a "comic book". 

Eventually I would like to have kids create their own families in the game and take their own snapshots when they deem it a good time and for them to create their "story" from those.