Okay so I have never been a blogger before because I really
haven’t had any time for it, but with nursing school I am super duper excited
and want to share the ups and downs of the next two years of my journey with
those who care to know. I chose blogging because I honestly don’t know how much
time I will have outside work and school and studying and clinicals to spend
with anyone other than me, my computer, and my books so I won’t have time to
sit down and just chat with everyone who wants to know anything about school so
maybe through here those who care to know can keep up and when I see you I will
be more than willing to talk about it if you have questions though :)
I will kind of catch you up with an up-to-date of my journey
so far. In 2007 I graduated high school and wasn’t ready to spend 4+ years in
college with no idea what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. I had prayed
and prayed and felt maybe nursing but I didn’t have a strong enough feeling to
dive in head first into a nursing program or college trying to get there. I
guess I wanted a no doubt feeling from God. I did feel a strong feeling to go
to massage school though and found the place of my dreams. Central State
Massage Academy, with a 20 week program I finished 2 days after turning 19 and
was a little scared being so young starting a new career, but I knew in the
back of my mind that one day when I grew up that God would show me what He
wanted me to do for the rest of my life because let’s face it, how many people
go to college and finish in the usual time for their degree choice. Many people
go for years before they have decided what they want to major in, others major
in something and get close to graduation and change their mind, while others
might know what they want to do to start with but they veer off the path and
party, stay out too late, don’t form good study habits, and all kinds of
things. At 18 for me, none of that sounded like the path that I wanted to take,
especially when I didn’t really know what I wanted to do. I honestly believe
that most 18 year olds don’t know what they want to do for the rest of their
lives and I think that it’s dumb to make them decide. For those 18 year olds
who do know I give you props for knowing that early in life and going for that
goal, but that wasn’t me. In May 2009 at age 20 I decided that while I was
young and unmarried with no kids that I needed to go ahead and go to college to
get a degree as at least a back up so I went on a search of what to go for. I
went through so many college sites looking for the answer and everything kept
leading to nursing and I was just like I don’t think I would make a good nurse
God, but He kept leading me back there. So in this process I heard of medical
mission trips, at that point I knew exactly why God was telling me to be a
nurse. I’m not the most outgoing person but I knew earlier in life that mission
trips are what I was called to do, not long term live across the ocean kind but
the ones about a week or so. When I finally listened completely to the whole
picture He was saying to me, “Duh Launi! I tried telling you all this before
but you had to have the whole picture before you got it!” I am a whole picture
kind of learner. So my journey began to become a nurse in order to do these
medical missions.
I started out at USAO for a semester and transferred to OCCC
where I would finish in May 2012 with an Associates in Diversified Studies
(General Education) In September of 2011 I finally had enough points to apply
at the nursing program there at OCCC, I got all my stuff turned in and 6 weeks
later got a letter telling me that I was not accepted into the program, I was
extremely upset by this but it only made me work harder. I figured out in
October that I was one semester away from being about to graduate with a
general education diploma, this in all programs will get me an entrance point,
so I decided to do that so that I could rack up more points increasing my
chances to get in. In March of 2012 I applied to OSU-OKC, OCCC, and Redlands
Nursing Programs. Redlands was the only one that I got an acceptance letter
from so Redlands Community College it is! Orientation in Friday the 17 and I
start classes Monday August 20, 2012! I can’t wait to start this remarkable
journey!!!
