It's official, I'm homesick.
I haven't been homesick ever in my life. Missed certain things about home, yes. Wishing to go home every day to the point that I actually look up plane tickets for the next available time I have to go? Never until now.
Why? I think it's all the thinking I've been encouraged to do about my favorite thing about Easter. See, April is my favorite month of the year in California. Not just because it's my birthday month, because (and my family knows this about me) I often forget it's my birthday by the time it rolls around. But mostly because most of my best memories happened in April. Christmas in April - the best birthday ever for me because it was an entire day spent fixing up a home for someone I didn't know, and who would never know I was involved. The air smells like spring in Hercules, the cherry trees blossom in the beginning (it never grows cherries, but the blossoms make beautiful arrangements), the other fruit trees bloom and promise a delicious early-summer, the early roses bud and bloom toward the end of the month, and it rains while the sun is out, and even while the sun isn't out. It's a lighter rain than the winter months, and it leaves everything dewy and sparkling. It's the kind of rain you imagine when you sing the primary song "I like to look for rainbows".
Basically, it's a magical month. Plus, it's beginning to be strawberry season. Fruit of the Gods. And Demigods. And Goddesses. In fact, I'm sure Mt. Olympus rejoices when strawberries begin to grow. Anyway, I also miss the things I always miss: the food, my old friends, the ocean, the hills. I also miss my family, and though I know it's always a little stressful to try to spend time in California, it's also something I miss.
I love my time here, and it's probably because I'm enjoying it so much that I'm longing for my home and memories. It rains here, and strawberries are abundant. Plus, living with a family is really pleasant. =) This also serves to remind me of California in the spring, though. I doubt I'll be able to go back until after August of this year, so I'll settle for just good memories for now. But one day, Look out California, here I come!
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Hey Joe! I didn't know you blogged. Sorry about not getting into Med school I thought for sure you would get in now I'm worried even more about myself. Here's my plan I am looking at schools that traditionally accept a lot of BYU grads like Loma Linda, Creighton, Medical callege of Wisconsin, Uniformed medical school, maybe even Jefferson College. I'd apply to even more DO schools bot A.T. stills, Both Mid westerns, Pacific North west, Pomona CA, Brendenton FL, etc, then I will have to humble myself and apply to the big 3 Caribbean schools (St.Georges,Ross, American University of the Caribbean) all these schools have relatively high USMLE pass rates and even send handfuls of their graduates to competitve residency programs. I would even consider UMHS st kitts ( a new school the guy who started Ross just started and SABA which should be in the big 3 but it has a real small student pop.
I think the Caribbean schools aren't choice but might be a way of achieving your dreams. Sure you won't be surrounded by the same brains as other schools but if you do well on your boards thats a plus to you and also it will be easier to graduate at the top of your class which will go a long way in residency applications. You won't get any special favors that they might give other students from other more presigious schools. I really think that you'd have to be more proactive to get into a competitive residency but it is possible and totally in your destiny. Male nursing is also another good job there is nothing wrong with it and when I'm volunteering at Castle the male nurses are way cooler than most of the doctors and way happier too. That may be because being a doctor in Hawaii sucks (its the closest state to socialized medicine in my book). What ever you decide just know that if you do it right will be a life long decision and money is relative there are plenty of poor doctors who can't battle insurance companies can't run a business or get out of debt (my dad works with a few of these guys and they hate their lives) anyways keep me posted on where you go. You obviously got skrewed there are students with way less experience and lower Grades who got in (we just had some from the U come and talk to the club who I believe fall into that catagory)
You made me homesick for your home and I've never even been there! I hope you get to go in April soon-maybe next year!
take us w/ you! to cali! ;) sorry to hear you are homesick, though! i have no home, so you are lucky! i guess home is wherever i am! we moved around too much, but i claim alaska over utah ANY day! at any rate, hang in there and i hope you get to go on your trip to cali soon! jimmy would love to go back and i wouldn't mind it. at least it's not utah, lol!
Thanks for helping me remember what I love about California too. You've always been great about feeling and pointing out the beautiful things. Sometimes I miss them or forget them.
LIES! i'm glad i didn't stay up and wait for your blog. :p
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