(Photos all from my mom’s camera… you wouldn’t even know my parents were in town, she only took pictures of us! P.S. Happy Mother’s Day!)
Wordless Recap of My Week Off
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Not So St. Patty’s Day Weekend
The plan was to do a weekly update on my internship but not gonna lie, I’m feeling less than thrilled to talk about it right now so I guess I’ll just post-pone the updates until I feel like it. Honestly who even wants to know about it?! Ok well maybe some of you, but, sorry.
So since we’re not talking about internship things, let’s talk about life things.
This weekend we had beautiful weather here. I’m talking 75 and sunny during the day and low 60s at night. Just absolutely perfect.
I took full advantage of this and sat out by the pool for a bit yesterday. Unfortunately I underestimated the sun and ended up a little crispy. Normally I don’t burn that easily, but considering some parts of me haven’t seen the sun in a few months (my belly? ah!) I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. Funny how we have two pools in our apartment complex and live 20 minutes from the beach, yet still can’t seem to find the time to enjoy it… that needs to change!
Today I was determined to get outside again somehow, so when my friend Katie texted me telling me she was working the farmers market today I told her I’d stop by with Annie to give her some company.
She’s works for a hospital that puts on a farmers market in the parking lot every Sunday, and as a dietitian she’s sometimes asked to man the “nutrition table”.
By the time I got there, I realized I didn’t have a whole lot of cash on me to buy much. But one local business, and honestly now I can’t remember the name of it, was giving free samples of their smoked mahi-mahi dip and it was amazing, so I scrounged up 6 bucks in change to buy a tub of it.
Annie wore herself out tugging on the leash trying to follow every smell she picked up with her little nose. Poor doggie, I tortured her by bringing her around all that food! Though lots of people who stopped to comment on how sweet she was gave her treats. So many random people carrying around dog treats. Makes me think, should I be carrying Milkbones in my purse?
After that I came home, ate like half of the smoked fish dip (portion control, shmortion control) and hit the books for a few hours of busywork… I mean, homework. And now I’m just as worn out as the pup. I realize now that I failed to do anything St. Patrick’s Day related this weekend, although I did wear an emerald-green cardigan today! Fail?
Did you get outside this weekend?
Thursday Thoughts: Internship Schminternship
Finally, a Thursday Thoughts where I actually talk about my internship!
Okay so if you weren’t here for the post where I first explained my dietetic internship, you can check it out here, but my program was set up a little differently than most.
In a nutshell: there are two ways to complete an internship (as of now) in the US. The most common way is to do a 4 year Didactic program (BS in Dietetics/Nutrition) and then proceed to apply for and complete a Dietetic Internship, which is 1200 contact hours in various facilities. OR you can enter into a 4 year Coordinated program which is a lovely combination of a BS and internship, and when you graduate, you have fulfilled the requirements to sit for the RD exam.
I went the first route.. completed a 4 year Didactic program and applied for an internship, but didn’t get accepted.
I’m actually totally fine with admitting that because honestly, it’s not uncommon. Dietetics has grown rampantly and is super competitive now in terms of matching with an internship. So while in the waiting period of applying the following year, I moved to south Florida (which reminds me, I should do a post on that…). In the interim, I found out about this new Coordinated program (combined program) in the area, and as luck would have it, they were allowing students with previous Didactic degrees to enter in as a “senior” and complete the required contact hours for an internship. Bingo.
So that’s where I am right now. We had two months of lecture and now, my Foodservice Management rotation starts on Monday. I’m not totally excited about this part of the internship but I was placed in a HUGE facility (read: 700+ bed hospital) and am very eager to see how this differs from the hospitals that I’ve worked in previously.
Truly the only difference between what I’m doing and your typical internship is the 1 month refresher courses in management and clinical. I’ll be back in the classroom again in January for clinical, but let’s be honest it won’t hurt to brush up on TPN calculations and all of that fun stuff.
For our last day together as a group before we go our separate ways on Monday for rotations, we had a little intern-potluck. Yesterday I mentioned that I made pumpkin bread and that’s what I brought. Everyone loved it, but I was more concerned with the Jamaican curried chicken on the table. Sometimes it can be a bit of culture-shock when I realize I’m living in such a diverse area, but most of the time I freaking love it, specifically the food. Gotta work on my Spanish though…
Are you studying to become an RD? Tell me about your program or internship!
