Last Free Weekend

Well I had orientation today for nursing school! It was from 8:30 AM til 2:00PM, but I didn't get out of there or off campus til after 3. I had to get a new picture ID and then I had to find the bookstore which took me 20 minutes even though it was about 5 minutes away from where I was. I am going to nursing school at Chandler-Gilbert CC and I've never been there before, so needless to say, I got turned around a lot and completely lost. So the day began with a bunch of crap I feel could have been left out, but whatever. I sat next to a nice girl, and I actually met a lot of nice people in there. Sadly I happened to judge people from the outside and some of those people don't look like they would make nice nurses. I found myself thinking "I wouldn't want them to be my nurse." How terrible is that?? What if they thought that of me? I'm a brat. What can I say? Anyway, the lady who was presenting the program for the whole day made it sound so hard and she kept saying how time consuming it's going to be with studying and clinicals and whatever else. Saying how it's a good idea to get in a study group. I can't work in study groups very well. It seems like it turns into a social event and nothing gets done. Plus I don't live near anyone that does there, so whatever. I'll study on my own. Speaking of studying-books anyway, I bought my books at the bookstore along with a tote that i'll use in my labs and clinicals and my grand total was around $750.00!! Yup! But thank goodness the box of books-that's right a box- was for the whole 2 years. I'm so glad I won't be looking at all the books from the start--that would be a little much.  OH so anyway, the lady was saying how hard it's going to be and blah blah blah, but after lunch, we ended up being with one of the instructors and she made the stress level i was experiencing drop. She said she would tell us what part of the chapters to read and focus on. She knows we can't learn EVERYTHING and knows that we could not retain info from 5 chapters. She went through that years ago when she was a student and it's pretty much pointless if you can't remember. These next 2 years are going to be hard, but they will be worth it. I'm so grateful I have family and friends there to help me out and take Kody for me when I need to go to school, and I  am so grateful for my sweet husband. I know i'll be leaning on him  a lot and I'm so grateful for his help. Only 4 semesters. I can do it!! I'll keep people posted as much as possible. I don't know how much free time I'll have after this weekend.