December 2-6, 2012
I applied to Graduate school back in the fall, and have been working through two orientation courses to get ready for everything to start. During the 1st week of December my friend, Virginia Fischer, and I head east to visit our school, Frontier Nursing University.
The school is literally in the mountains in this small town named Hyden, Kentucky.
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| Our trusty Rental car |
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This road...big enough for one car only...see the gravel off
to the side..we had to park on that ledge... |
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It was pretty warm thanks to some weather jargon I don't understand
so we were able to leave our big coats and sweaters home :) |
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| Me & Virginia: Day 1 |
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| My bed |
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| Our Get-Ready Space |
Here are some of the buildings we occupied while at Orientation:
This school started back in the early 1920's and was a midwife school. It was also boarding for the Midwives; they would ride on horse-back to the homes in the Kentucky mountains to deliver babies and provide family care. So as one can imagine, the buildings are all historical.
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This building holds the dining room, and boarding rooms upstairs.
The barn that is barely visible in the R corner, once held the horses,
but has since been transformed into classrooms & a library. |
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| Academic offices in here. |
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| 3rd floor..that's us. |
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| Mary Breckinridge's home |
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The Awesome Ladies that will be on this journey with me
L-R: Leann, Casey, me, Abby, Kristen, Virginia |
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| This was our group for the week! |
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| We we're the babies of the group |
Ringing the bell is a tradition at Frontier that signifies the start of the Journey into the world of Advanced Family Practice Nursing.
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| Vriginia |
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| Me..and ringing the bell was not as they demonstrated..Me and V almost fell! haha |
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| This is the only sign that lets you know you've made it :) |
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| Here is the view from the morning we left |
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| Once we made it back to Louisville to catch our flight |
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Had some time to kill so we went to see Twilight...
we were the ONLY ones lol. |
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Thanks GPS for leading us to Louisville airport?! I don't think we would've
made it home on Republic Airways :) |
We did finally find the airport, but we were lost for at least 30 minutes.
Somewhere between spending the week with a sick roomie and being crammed on airplanes with sick people for 5+ hours, I came home with a sniffle and I cough..
that turned into full-blown laryngitis by Day 3!
The next 3 days were spent in silence and text (I've never been so grateful for text messaging in my life).
Despite the laryngitis as my going-away gift, the orientation in KY was great. I left knowing that I can accomplish this goal of becoming a Family Nurse Practitioner..I'm still nervous, but know that I have tons of support from my family!
