Today was my first day as an intern! I had no reason to be nervous because after all, first days are full of paperwork, introductions, and a whole mess of food that I should not have eaten. I love my co-interns. Ironically, 3 of us are all living in the same area. The other intern is about an hour away. Poor girl has a horrible commute.
My supervisors are crazzzzzy! I'm so excited about my primary supervisor. I loved her when I had my interview and I prayed deep down that I would get her! Thank you God! I have 3 other supervisors, one which includes the intern director. She is totally awesome. I'm a little nervous about one of my supervisors. She wasn't at my interview so I never really got a "feel" for her. I have this gut feeling she and I may not mesh as well as my other supervisors. I know things like that happen, but I just want everything to go smoothly. I believe the supervisors are going to be one of the biggest challenges in this internship. All of my supervisors are different, which means they each will have very different therapy styles. However, that is also a plus because I can take what I love from each supervisor and apply it to my personal style. We had lunch with the supervisors today, all 12 of them. They are so crazy, for real. When they all get together they talk and talk and talk and eat and eat and eat. They talk about their students. Sometimes they even make fun of them, but not in a bad way but an "oh they are so precious" kind of way. I loved it! The interns just sat and laughed at the supervisors all during lunch. I suppose we can call this Observation 1. haha!
This internship is going to be ROUGH. I'm going to be physically, mentally, and at times emotionally DRAINED. There are so many things that I have to accomplish over the next 7 months. Papers, book reports, assessments, plans...on and on it goes. As I was looking through my notebook and facing that fact that I will have no life whatsoever these next 7 months, I was actually thankful. I know that when this is all said and done with I will leave this experience being fully prepared in my field. I will be proud of my accomplishments and proud of who I have become. Plus, if I can help one child I know that I will have accomplished so much. I'm so thankful that God has called me to do this.
On a funny note, I also learned today that apparently Music Therapy Department Chairs are ALL a little scatterbrained at times. haha. Oh how it made me miss Dr. E.
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