Thursday, August 16, 2012

How I Made It Here


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!!!

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