Medical Training

The delicious smell of barbeque smoke is in the air, every here and there, chairs are pulled outside, backyard umbrellas open, and swimming pools become crowded by the minute. Cars, with happy dogs peaking out of the windows, are rushing to the shore, to the ocean, where the hot summer sun meets the welcoming, soft sand and the cool, salty water. The summer is here.

As our LVN schools doors swing open, out hurry our nursing students, hugging their books, holding them against their bodies, rushing to their cars, or catching those rides home. They hurry home to their families to start the summer vacation. No school for two whole weeks! No homework, no classes, no clinicals, no tests, no quizzes, no sweat! Well, perhaps, yes, sweat, but that would be from the hot Californian sun, kissing the pale in-door student skin and the tired bodies, exhausted from hard work and sleepless nights, while studying at our high-paced LVN program.

For two whole weeks there will be not a care in the world. Going to an LVN College is great and rewarding, but nothing beats a good, healthy, so-very-relaxing school break! The summer is here, and even though, the Gurnick LVN students are very serious about their studies, they will also seriously enjoy their well-deserved summer break.

A little girl with curly hair and big brown eyes is staring at me with a question in her eyes. So much to wander about, so much unknown, so many questions to be answered! All in its own time. That little girl is all grown up now. But back then she wanted to know: who am I? What will I become when I grow up? Will I be happy? Will I make other people happy?

With a sigh, I answer to that little girl on the picture, the picture of me, seven years old: “I really hope so.” I hope, I make other people happy, I hope, I have grown to be a good person. I hope, I will be special to someone who needs me and loves me. After all, I am making something great of my life: I am studying to become and LVN nurse. Dad always said, it is good for every family to have a medical professional on board. I did not realize, he was talking about me, until recently.

I chose to go to an LVN program here in California to make a difference in this world. I know, it’s a tough one. The LVN courses are challenging, and the pace is so fast that sometimes it makes days and nights blend into a timeless mass of hours and hours of studying, LVN classes, clinical practice, homework… No one said, it would be easy, yet everyone is so supportive. I am so grateful to my mom and dad for believing in me, investing their time and money into my education, investing their hopes and wishes into my future. Because, they too believe that I will grow up to be special and important. I will grow up to be a Nurse.

I am proud to be an LVN student now. I will not let my parents down. Even if sometimes I feel guilty that my mom and dad had to give up so much, depriving themselves of simple pleasures in life, just to give me a chance at a better life, I am happy and proud that they believe in me enough to give me that chance. Mom and dad have not gone on vacation for years, working day and night at their drycleaners business, just to make sure that their little girl with curly hair and brown eyes could finish her studies at the LVN school to get that diploma, so that she could proudly say, “Thank you, mom and dad! I am a Nurse now, but we did it together.”