Fall

Sand art in Union Square and the view of the fall colors from my room
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It must be fall

The ice rink at Rockefeller center opened today! So excited to see an outdoor ice rink!!
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Internship

So I have lived out here in NYC for almost 2 months now. I know my way around the city pretty well and can get to most places in Manhattan by walking or taking the subway. I go out adventuring and exploring alot, but because of my budget I do alot of looking and not much of the fun stuff. This is the city full of massive amounts of restaurants, and everyone is always wanting to go out to dinner or brunch. I unfortunately can't do that often because I still haven't been able to find a part time job. I do go out however sometimes and just don't eat and just enjoy the company. I can't decide if I will actually get a part time job because I am thinking I will not have enough time or energy to work after classes or my internship. I am finally starting to make some friends which is really nice, and have met a few great people in classes that I will hopefully hang out with soon. School is overwhelming, I am finally learning how to mange my time and not read ALL the readings assigned. Second year students tried to tell us it is impossible, and I am realizing now that they are right. I pick and choose which readings to do and may have to do a bit more when midterms come around. Luckily midterms and finals are only papers, so I don't have to study for any tests at all. Midterms are in 2 weeks, half way done with my first semester in 2 weeks! So crazy, time is going by quickly.

I FINALLY got my internship (2 weeks late) on Wednesday. After a long battle with the internship office they finally found me a placement at a elementary school up in the Bronx. Today was my first day and I am exhausted. The experience was overwhelming and it will continue to be like that for the first 2-3 weeks. Today I just observed different classes and was to keep an eye on certain students and interact with the all the students keeping in mind the ones I was to pay more attention to. I will do this for a while and ultimately I will have 5-6 students I see individually a week for therapy, and then will run a few group therapy sessions. They mainly use play therapy and behavioral therapy with the children. I am so excited and nervous to start the therapy sessions, but I happy where I have been placed for my internship since ultimately I want to work with children. Although I'm in this great city I am spending most of my time doing school work and am not able to enjoy all the great things it has to offer, but I am trying to allow myself a day off from school a week to get out and go exploring.

It is fall and wow it is cold! I am not going to survive winter!!! I guess they said that these are abnormally low tempatures that we have had for this time of year the past few days, but it was about the tempature that our "winter" in California. I wore a sweater and a jacket and wished I owned gloves to wear because my hands got cold. I need to go to TJ Maxx or somewhere to get some winter clothing, and soon because I think cold weather will be here sooner than I thought!

Ok bed time for me, I can't believe how much my first day at my internship drained me.

bye for now <3