If my career as an OT fails, I can always become a mystic

As in mystic Lucie Meg...


In June I updated the left hand column of my blog to read

"From then on? Who knows.

Although it will probably involve trying to make a new home for myself,

 building flat-pack furniture, collecting household items from various places,

 scouring charity shops and car boots, decorating, exploring, meeting new 

people, a preceptorship, cats, OT, medical conditions, weekends in Canterbury,

 Northamptonshire, being a proper OT, working, being an official adult..."

I have achieved all of the above. Tick!! ✓

I have a home, a lovely little house I rent with my boyfriend and cat; I've become pretty great at flat pack furniture, I have enough furniture now that it is impossible to fit my entire life into my pug 107.  I have made new friends, and explored my new area. I'm half way through my preceptorship, and been to Canterbury twice. I am a proper OT and am officially an adult. 

I am content as a proverbial 'content thing'!

xx

How so much can change in year

This time last year I was an OT student on my last placement in London. Working in a community paediatric setting, completely out of my comfort zone and absolutely loving it. Celebrating my 21st in Oxford, London and the Isle of Wight. I was in awe of the amazing therapists I was working with, aspiring to be as good as them at that point in my career. The idea of having a job and actually being an OT felt like it was ages away...

Oh my gosh, how time flies!! Fast forward a year, and here I am, nearly 4 months into my first post as an OT. Working in an acute setting in medicine - and yes, still loving it.
I've gone from living in hospital accommodation with a series of weird flatmates, to moving in with my boyfriend and gaining a furry baby (our kitten, Ted). My hour commute (both from Essex to E London and Cotswolds to Oxford) has been replaced by a Seven and a half minute drive to work! And my dream of being an OT working in a physical setting and putting into practice all I have learnt and experienced in the past 3 years has become a reality.

Thank you to everyone who has helped me over the past 3 years xxx

Loving my life at the moment

I have so much to look forward to.
I finish my placement on Wednesday. Becky has got a new job, Celebratory drinks Thursday! I have shadowing experience at St Catherines school Thursday and Friday. Back to Oxford Monday evening and the next following two weeks spent catching up with my OT ladies/doing mandatory training updates and  dissertation stuff.
Night out to celebrate that I finished my second year at uni the weekend starting the 1st of June! I can crack on with my search strategy for my dissertation as of June 4th.

June 21-24th is the IOW festival, and June 27th is Ben's birthday.

The beach - sooo excited!

Hopefully I will be working during the summer... ? (And writing a substantial part of my dissertation; methodology and literature review).

I'm very proud to say that my sister and my auntie both graduate in July. Both of whom have done incredibly well and got great results!!!!

September 3rd- December 7th I will be on my third year placement!

December 11th - 22nd Ben and I will be on Holiday in Cape Verde.
Then Christmas (yay I love christmas) and then In January we're seeing Jimmy carr. And then In June I will graduate... Lots to look forward to

xx