IMMERSED.
My whole life, I’ve only ever known one school. I have only seen the same people, been following the same rules, been treated the same way I have always been treated. And it’s been nice. Familiarity and sentiment is nice, but it gets tiring. You can only be so familiar and comfortable with a place for so long.
So when we were given the opportunity to experience being immersed in a new environment for a week, I felt all sorts of emotions, but mainly excitement. I have always been one hungry for new things, despite loving the comfort of familiarity.
I admit that a week is not enough to be truly immersed in an environment foreign to you, but it was enough to feed my hunger for both the new and the answers I have been asking for about my future career.
I knew I’ve always wanted a career that wasn’t confined withing the walls of a cubicle in an office. I have always dreamed of a job that was engaged with the people and the world. That has always been my career goal. There was never a specific college course that I wanted to take, or even a job description that I wanted to have, but over the last three years, I have narrowed my decisions down to two: Psychology and Nursing.
Before the immersion began, I found out that the school I will be attending to had a class and program that dealt with children who had special needs. I knew that that was the path I wanted to take when I narrowed my decisions down, and so I made it a point to at least have a day within my immersion dedicated to them and I was lucky enough to have more than that.
I was able to spend most of my hours during my immersion with the children from the SPED department and I couldn’t have been more fulfilled. I will forever hold the stories they shared and the memories we made in my heart.
I went into the week of my immersion afraid of what my future holds and came out of it ready and hoping for what it has to offer. I will no longer live today in fear of what tomorrow might not bring, but will live it for the assurance of tomorrow’s hopes.
