Good news.

Aw, I’m smiling 🙂 Last night I attended an event and a medical director was there as well. Afterward, I introduced myself which was nerve-wracking. I mean, I wasn’t even sure of his name because I didn’t catch it during the panel discussion. Anyways, so I said I was interested in volunteering at his hospital in a particular unit and I have been a volunteer at two other hospitals. So he gave me his card so I could drop him an email, which I made sure to do ASAP when I got home. And lucky me, he emailed the volunteer coordinators and they invited me to orientation next week! 😀 Which is wonderful because going through volunteer services takes a LONG time. Especially because of my latent TB, and obviously a TB test is a deal breaker, but I mean I have a hospital letter, you know, saying I’m not a public health threat (lol, that actually sounds terrible!). But it’s so annoying because I’ve had the TB test taken like 4 times already! But I mean even if I have to go through all the forms, the reference letters, and the TB test AGAIN, it’s alright :). Hopefully I can either start volunteering in the summer or in the coming school year. I don’t know how their scheduling works because in the summer I work 5 days a week, all working day or longer. And I know some hospitals don’t do evening or weekend hours. Pooh. Well I’m a poor university student, so what can I do about that? Anyways the medical director was really kind to help me out! I’m glad my wavering nervous voice didn’t put him off. Lol, I’m so awk! My mum was like ‘tell him you’re in such and such college’ (within the university). And I told her I did … but I didn’t actually. Name-dropping isn’t my thing and I think he’s American … so it might not mean much, but what it does do is validate me … but I guess I didn’t need it anyway :). So that’s my news … I should phone the volunteer coordinator to confirm … and email all three to thank them for the opportunity! 😀