Stumbling through life..

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I have had one of the harder education journey, while I geaduated recently, it took me about 6 years in total to finish something that I have wanted to in the end. I have always felt like my life was chosen by my parents. I have always hated school rules and followed them but sometimes secretly rebel it in high school. I never snuck out but I have secretly called my friends way past midnight. After I graduated from high school, I have applied to multiple schools including Trent, UofT, Ryerson (now TMU), Brock University, and bunch of colleges too... I ended up going to Brock University for Bachelor of Public Health. I ended up going out with friends often, and partying a bit too hard, and failed out of school before I decided I wanted to be a police by taking Bachelor of Sociology before I went to policing school. Although, the whole fitness components scared me which made me to not train for any part of it.

In all fairness, I have never liked the whole mascots at Brock, well I mean... It's a badger... I did really like the gym there, and I had a personal trainer there whom taught me most of the machines that I still use now. So Brock was during the years of 2018-2019 April... I have met some of the best friends there whom I still am with. During the summer of 2019, I applied for Bachelor of Applied Health Science (BAHIS) at Conestoga College. This program was well talked through with my parents and sister, although at the time, I just knew that I wanted to be in health care and also tech, because I was always great at tech at home, so at the time I figured, I would combine the both. At the time, I still was "introverted" and thought I could work a job that sits in the office... I ended up joining some committees, and made some great friends and helped with orientation at the school. The program is 4 years, and I went to the program mainly because there were still parental pressure that wanted me to finish with a bachelor program... Although we all know that might not be necessarily true in the current economy.

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Conestoga College has the mascot, the condor. It is the largest bird that is also the largest type of vultures, which is not what I would choose as my favourite mascot either. This school was more cool and I really liked the vibe of the KW people. I do miss living in the area and the people who are there. Okay, back to the topic... I was at Conestoga from Sept 2019 to Dec 2020. The program was partially online due to the global pandemic, and I lost all interest to classes slowly as soon as it went online, I was deep into fitness, and got into a lot of fitness classes that were trending on YouTube. I was following programs including Chloe Ting, April Han, Heather Robinson and emi wong. I was fit but felt weird internally. I was doing lots of online shopping and pampering myself, doing workouts till I almost pass out to avoid the truth of what was actually happening. The whole "semester of Jan 2021 - April 2021", I was looking at my life and since I did flunked out and being forced being dropped out of those classes due to.failing bunch of the classes... In the latter half, I started to look at other schools and programs to go into. I looked into Practical Nursing, which was a program that was next to us in class. I thought PN intrigued me and it was a good escape from failing out of everything and felt like a failure. I got into 2 programs, which is Seneca college PN program which started at Sept 2021, and Centennial College had sent me an offer awhile later that starts in May 2021.

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The program is supposely two years. I have did the flex version, which is 6 semesters that covers the summer semester too. During the online phases, I did one class three times (Anatomy & Physiology), which eventually I have passed through with some hard work with the help of some tutor and learning circles. Eventually school became hybrid, and the only classes we would come in is the part that requires the physical part involving psychomotor skills, health assessments. Another class that I have had trouble with is pathophysiology as well, which I also took three times,which I have only succeeded in with help of an awesome tutor. Soon after that, I have finally passed through everything else smoothly with the help of my tutor. I also had an awesome clinical instructor and preceptor as well. There are definitely other instructor that would require some ranting... (Story for another time)...

Finally I am so happy and proud of myself that I have made it past this program after getting this diploma, and now I have started the next process to become a registered practical nurse. I thank everyone who have helped along the way, you are truly the hero too. Also thank you for making to the end, you are a real homie. See you soon!