February 15, 2006
I think this may be the end….
So my dear readers…
As this is the first entry of this month I feel justified in addressing you directly.
Let’s face it, this medium is not… well it is no longer working for me.
It was device of an adventure. An adventure that I am truly grateful to have had.
But I think that Wackyfish may have outlived it’s usefulness.
At least for me anyway. I am not going to get rid of it or take it down… I am just… going to stop worrying about updating it.
I may from time to time update. But you regular readers should look for me elsewhere on the web (if you are really interested, e-mail me and I will point you in the right direction).
And with that I have to say, Thank you all so much for reading, I hope you enjoyed my writing.
Tofa Soifua!
Comments
One last bit of unwanted advice….
Many people who go into the health care profession, and particularly those who decide to work with the aged and infirm fall in love with the idea of helping. They go through school and then somewhere after completion, a few months into the job, they suddenly realize that what the old and infirm do most is shit, suffer, and die. It’s too much for them and they burn out quickly. Get your nursing assistant certificate as quickly as possible, get a position in a care home or hospice, and find out if you really have the love for the work. If, after you have been up to your elbows in shit, done your very best to help scores of patients only to watch them suffer all the more, and felt the recurring sadness of having friends pass before your eyes, you still feel it’s a great place to be, then school makes much more sense. Hospice and Care Home work is 8 to twelve incredibly demanding hours of work, often a rubber mallet to the head, and just enough time to get one’s act back together before going at it once again.
Dorie, I wish you all the best.
Tofa, Soifua
Kalapu
Here are some Peace Corps / Samoa journals and blogs that I have found online. If you know of any others that I have missed please let me know. Thanks!
-Mike Sheppard
RPCV / The Gambia
www.journeyacrossafrica.blogspot.com
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http://www.27months.blogspot.com/
http://alexware.tripod.com/samoa.html
http://www.americanidle.org/
http://www.andrewlansford.com/
http://www.charlesinsamoa.blogspot.com/
http://davidinsamoa.blogspot.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/CandiceK
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCSamoa/
http://www.julyasteyh.blogspot.com/
http://www.krisrush.com/pc/
http://www.marisamoa.blogspot.com/
http://www.mjpeacecorps.blogspot.com/
http://www.pcsamoa75.blogspot.com/
http://www.samoasara.blogspot.com/
http://www.travelpod.com/cgi-bin/guest_login.pl?tweb_UID=ryan&tweb_tripID=samoa
http://www.wackyfish.net/
http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=aulelei
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One last bit of unwanted advice….
Many people who go into the health care profession, and particularly those who decide to work with the aged and infirm fall in love with the idea of helping. They go through school and then somewhere after completion, a few months into the job, they suddenly realize that what the old and infirm do most is shit, suffer, and die. It’s too much for them and they burn out quickly. Get your nursing assistant certificate as quickly as possible, get a position in an care home or hospice, and find out if you really have the love for the work. If, after you have been up to your elbows in shit on too many occasions to count, done your very best to help scores of patients only to watch them suffer all the more, and felt the recurring sadness of having friends pass before your eyes, you still feel it’s a great place to be, then school makes much more sense.
Peace Corps was a vacation. Hospice and Care Home work is 8 to twelve incredibly demanding hours of work, often a rubber mallet to the head, and just enough time to get one’s act back together before going at it once again.
Dorie, I wish you all the best.
Tofa, Soifua
Kalapu