Well I've finally found time to get on here! Now I just need to update you on what has been going on.

I finished my externship a week ago, so now I'm officially employed. Well I'm not exactly official yet...they haven't had me sign any papers or anything. I just clock in and hope that I'm actually getting paid. I'm still at my extern site. I haven't been able to find anywhere else to work. But don't worry I'm still looking!! I'm having a hard time working at this place. Dad gave me a challenge to find one good/happy thing about this place each day. Well just this last Friday...there were two good things. One, I learned how to take care of someone that is diabetic that is really low on sugar(that was quite an experience!) and the second happy thing was that it was the weekend. ;) Yup that's how bad it is there! I just sit there scan my files and mind my own business. So I'm just hoping and praying that something will come up that has nothing to do with where I am at now.

Other than working I've just been busy with my ward calling! They've informed me that I'm being "phased out" with my new co-chair that they have given me. So I have till after our Christmas party to be the Activities Chair. I've loved this calling, though it has been stressful at times I've never felt more involved in any ward I've been. Who knows what is next in line for me, but I'm excited to see what happens.

I was finally able to get some time to go up the canyon today to see the fall colors! I LOVE FALL! It's my favorite season! If you want to see pictures go to my other blog: jkiddsdigital.blogspot.com! Here is a sneak peak:

Graduation Speech

Well here is my preview to you all of what I will be saying tomorrow at my Graduation! Pictures to come! ;) AHHH! I'm nervous!

Hello everyone! Well, we've gone class after class, test after test, but we still have so much more to learn. Dr. Seuss once said, “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go.” As for me, this is not the first college I’ve attended, maybe that is the way with some of you, but I couldn’t seem to find the right place. Or maybe I just could figure out what I wanted to do when I grew up. When I finally figured out that I wanted to work in the medical field it was time to search for the right school. I was never a big fan of school so I didn’t want to have to take forever to finish up my degree. I looked at so many different tech schools and smaller colleges, but all they offered was MA programs, and there was no way I was going to go learn how to poke somebody! Then I came across AmeriTech. The only school with a program with exactly what I wanted to be. From then on it all fell into place. Then anatomy started. I was so excited to learn all that information, but at the same time so scared that I wasn’t going to be able to pass that class. I’ve never been in a class so fast paced before and it was anatomy of all classes. It was such a new experience for me and I was more determined to not fail and to learn all that I could. I started loving school so much more. I was excited to go every day! Once I got into my core classes it was all so less stressful! I made more friends and we all just helped each other along the way.

One of the best parts of coming to AmeriTech was that they helped me love learning. They taught me to the want to continue learning. One of the other best parts of coming to AmeriTech was that you could get really personable with the teachers. With small classes you felt more involved with the class instead of just being there in the class. The teachers were there to help me and I’ve never had that at any other college, and not to mention that the HOS program had a maximum of 4 people. I loved the smaller classes though, we had more fun and were able to ask more questions.

Being in my program I was able to understand my surroundings when I went to doctor’s offices and hospitals. It was so much more interesting when I knew what was going on, and what they were talking about. When my nephew fractured his elbow, I was more excited to go to the hospital to watch everything and everyone, than I was worried for him. I loved going into offices and hospitals just observe how they run things, and to think how one day I would be doing that too! And now I am! I’m on my extern right now and it’s a lot more exciting to be there then to be learning about it in school. I’m so excited to be out in the real world and learning more than what they can teach me here at AmeriTech.

This is best school I’ve ever gone to! I loved every minute of it, even the worrying, the stress, the tests, the homework, the books, the reading, the outdated health videos, everything, I loved it all. It has been the best accomplishment I’ve done so far, and I thank you all so much for helping me do that.

The mission statement says, “Through quality training and education, the mission of AmeriTech College is to prepare graduates with the necessary knowledge, skills, and dispositions to become competent professionals in their chosen field of study.” I believe we have been trained and educated well. Now we just need to go out there and prove that we have.

Someone once said, “Graduation is only a concept. In real life every day you graduate. Graduation is a process that goes on until the last day of your life. If you can grasp that, you'll make a difference.”

Thank you! And Congratulations to you all!!

Well first, Happy Birthday to me! :) I had a great 24th birthday! I didn't have to go to school and I didn't have to work, so it was just a party day for me! My parents kindly took me out to lunch at Cafe Rio and to see the new Pirates movie. (which was good by the way!) After that we came home and I got stuff ready for a fire that I had with some friends. Just yesterday I went out with some of my girlfriends and they took me out to Olive Garden and to see the movie Midnight in Paris. It was a lot of fun! Do I feel older/different? Nope! Just the same! Here are some pics from the fire!

Next, I started my externship on friday and it was great! I'm so excited to finally be out working in the field instead of just learning about it! It's at a Internal Medicine Physician's office. It will be quite interesting to learn all the stuff from actually being there point of view. The staff seems really nice and they all seem to have a lot of fun with one another. I work with two daughters of one of the doctors, so that is going to be interesting, but they seem nice! I will have to tell you more as times goes on! Hopefully I will be done by the end of October.

Also, I GRADUATE ON WEDNESDAY!!! And I have to speak at my graduation! How nervous am I??? I still have no idea what i'm going to say! Any advice would be good! I have to speak for 5 min and just about my experience and what i learned from it!

Well that is all for now! I will let you know how graduation goes!

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ALL I CAN SAY RIGHT NOW IS THAT I'M ALMOST DONE WITH SCHOOL!!!!! I can't even wait! I don't know yet where i'm going to be having my extern, but hopefully this week I will find out. Here is my countdown.....

2 weeks = DONE WITH SCHOOL AND START EXTERN!

(insert Birthday here!) :)

2 weeks after that = GRADUATION!!

2 weeks after that = DONE WITH EXTERN AND MOVING ON TO THE REAL JOB! :)

I know this is a short post, but i thought I should at least say something! So here is my something!!

Love you all! :)

Hey there!

So somehow I really need to get into the habit of writing on here each week! That way I won't have so much to tell in one post! Oh well, just a warning this might be a bit lengthy...

To start...school is getting closer to the end! Graduation date? SEPTEMBER 14TH!!!! What an awesome late birthday present for me! haha I can't wait! I will be done with classes around the 23rd of August and then I go right into my externship. I don't know where I'm going to be going yet, but I think it will be at an allergist in American Fork or who knows where! I won't really find out for a couple of weeks or so! As for the classes, they are going great! I have longer days on Wednesdays and Thursdays now, I'm taking an Employment Strategies class. We are working on our resume's right now. It's a really easy class, all we really are doing is just learning to be better employee's. I just get butterflies in my stomach thinking how close I am to the end!

It's quite funny when I tell people that I'm graduating soon, and then they ask me, "What are you going to do next?"....my reply?...."Um..work." Haha What else am I going to do? The reason I'm going to school is to get a job! :) It makes me laugh.

This past month has been so crazy for me! I've had my sisters and their kids in town and it has just been so fun to hang out with them! It was the first time ever meeting one of my nieces and I just love her to pieces, and miss her a whole bunch all ready! I sure wish you all didn't live so far away! We had so much fun with our family reunions and our girls day! I sure do love my family and love every moment I get to spend time with them! I can't wait till next year when my brother from Hong Kong gets to come and visit!

I've been doing a lot on my weekends, which has been awesome! I'm very tired and exhausted when Sunday and Monday comes, but it's all so worth it! Lets see what have I done? Gone to the opening showing of Harry Potter, the opening showing of Captain America (these movies have both started at 12:00 a.m.), hiked up horsetail falls, gone to the Days of 47 Rodeo, going to be hiking horsetail falls again next Friday, full weekend of events for my YSA stake this weekend(carnival, dances, comedy shows, workshops, firesides, 5k, etc). I tell ya this month has been quite crazy for me!

Here are some pics of all that has gone on!

Me and Sarah! We became good buds! Oh I just love her!

My CUTE nieces! Sarah loved giving Kayda(and everyone) hugs!

Girls Day in Park City!! Riding our way up to go down the Alpine Slide! So fun!

Just waiting my turn to go down!

So, of course I went to see the midnight showing of Harry Potter, and of course I didn't dress up, but that doesn't mean i can't get pics with others who did right? This is a Death Eater. He was the best dressed up as one! It was so fun to watch everyone that dressed up, being a people watcher that i am. There were others like Sirius Black, Moaning Mertle, Bellatrix Lestrange, Tonks and Lupin, house elves, and of course all the Hogwarts students.

Me and my friend Broc went and hiked up to this waterfall. This is just the top part of the big waterfall there. To the right of this picture I had to climb down to get to this spot to take this picture, I had a bit of an accident and slipped half of the way down. I have the marks to prove it...look below...

This picture doesn't do justice. If it was a movie, you could see that my legs were shaking like crazy! You can see how dirty I am, but if you saw my legs now, there are cuts all over, bruises on my legs, arms, back and butt, cuts on my arms...it was quite a fall. :) But no worries I got up and climbed back out of there and back down the mountain.

This is at the Days of 47 rodeo! So cool! I think this will be definitely one of my annual rodeo's i'm going to! :)

This guy is from Lehi and he was the only bull rider that night that stayed on the bull for the full 8 seconds! Bad night for the cowboys but good for the bulls! Such a fun rodeo!

Well there you have it in a summary of my last month! Hope you enjoyed it! Until next time!