You Know! The One about the Sister's Internship!

                     Guidance Counselor Internship

                    In conjunction with Southern Utah University Community Engagement Center and the Psychology Department I was able to complete a 150 hour internship in Elementary School Guidance Counseling. This project was also used to fill the university’s new EDGE Program requirements. This program allows students to complete a service or career project with one of the five engagement centers on campus before graduation.

                      I chose to complete an internship to fulfill this requirement and it turned out to be a life altering experience for me. I have always been interested in children and adolescents and have had multiple service and employment opportunities to work with this age group. In the past two years I have been interested in how my educational choice of psychology ties in with this population. I discovered school counseling and new this is what I wanted to do the rest of my life. I was fascinated how elementary school counseling combined behavior modification, life skill coaching, group counseling and classroom instruction together.

                      I was paired with Mrs. DeAnn Graff a local Elementary School Guidance Counselor at Enoch and Parowan Elementary to complete my internship. Mrs. Graff is not only the most passionate and intelligent counselor I have ever met she is also versatile and compassionate. I couldn’t have imagined working with anyone more driven and incredible in the field. Mrs. Graff is able to reach students on multiple levels and has many different counseling techniques. Mrs. Graff is one of the most driven women I have ever met, she makes every minute of her day valuable by fitting in groups, classroom lessons and one on one time with students into every second of her day.

                      During my internship I was able to teach life skills to classrooms full of students as well as creating my own lesson plan for courage. I was able to design and present this lesson to students at both Enoch and Parowan Elementary. Mrs. Graff also allowed me to observe and facilitate her groups. Mrs. Graff has small groups that help students deal with issues such as parental divorce and grief counseling as well as teaching life skills in her study skills and impulse control groups. I also had the opportunity to assist with fundraising efforts for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and felt story boards for the Women’s Crisis Center.

                      Mrs. Graff has a strong passion for bully prevention. I was able to assist her by teaching bully prevention lessons to the sixth graders as well as connecting and hanging students’ bully prevention pledges. Every day at my internship I was doing new things and being challenged in different ways.

                      I couldn’t have picked a more meaningful way to complete the Edge Project than with my internship. I can’t wait to be an Elementary School Guidance Counselor and hope I can mimic the passion and determination Mrs. Graff exemplifies. I would like to thank the Community Engagement Center along with Enoch and Parowan Elementary and of course Mrs. DeAnn Graff for this incredible opportunity.

You Know… The Usual

Hey everyone! I know it has been a year since I have posted last but, you know. :] I am a very confusing person lately so you should feel thankful that I haven’t posted in a while.

I don’t know where I am going in my life. It feels like I am running in quick sand.

BBUtttt, it will work out! I can feel it in my bones! A big change is coming but, I can’t quite put a finger on it :T oh well.

Do you wanna know what i really love? Foreigners that come into the store and ask me if I have sandwiches for them :] they are so cute and confused.

 

For some reason I also love this song i discovered on my Pandora Station! It kinda looks like she is lip singing but I like the song anyways :]

It is Called “stay” by Mozella

Do you wanna know who else I love?

Colbie Caillat!

 

Keep Smiling even though life sucks… It will be better than you could ever imagine!

:] :[ :D

My life has been a little crazy lately... not that I am complaining :] This weekend it is the 181 General Conference! What an amazing expirience I will have! We have the opportunity to attend the Sunday morning session!! The only downside to this is that we are leaving at around 6:00 in the AM hours so that we can get there on time. The following people will be participating in this little adventure :] : Kenzi, Angela, Kialeen, Ellen and of course her husband (Because who else would be willing to drive around a car full of girls?) Oh how I have been waiting for this weekend. I need a pick-me-up of a spiritual nature! I know that God will tell me what I need to hear even if it is not what i want to hear :D

Now going on to my next subject... The California Trip with the institute this May. Sidenote: I look back and it seems that everything in my life revolves around my religion... coinsidence? I think not. Out of the side note!! WE get to go to two count them two Temples I am so excited that I might pass out :]

Can you Guess which ones they are? :] They are the LA and San Diego Temples!!! Two days In the Lord's House! I feel so blessed... this is just what i need!! (Besides Conference of course). Oh how the Lord blesses me When i start to forget. I am just so greatful for his Patience and understanding!

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It is funny isn’t it?  The way things work out? This week has been a rough week for me and for others around me and i don’t even know why. Today i just miss everything about last year. It has been a year since i moved in with my grammy and i now live in price. Oh i miss her so much it hurts sometimes, because she has always been there. Lately i hate being alone, i hate driving to school alone, going to work alone, studying alone, just being alone. I know i am a poor sap but hey what can you do? I am so stinking confused in every aspect of my life that at times i dont know if i can handle it. I dont know what i want my major to be, i dont know if i want this same job even though i love it. I am confused on the guy front but i am not even going to get into that. I dont go to church regularly though i desperatley want to more than i will ever understand. I wish i knew what my life was going to be like in a year with all these choices i am making now. I have research paper due in two days a huge test in four, i have to work and deal with the fact that i cant bring myself to go to the meat department without the sudden urge to cry or throw a steak. It just sucks sometimes. my life. even though i am so blessed and i cant even acknowledge it. that those around me and the lord above obviously see something that i have been missing for years.

Not so good today

What i dont understand is myself… plain and simple. i thought i knew who i was and where i was going. Then i graduated high school and reality hit me square in the face. I got a job which i love but ya know is that what i really want to do for the next two years? I can not make any major decisions because i am afraid of the consequences. how great am i? i am afraid to take chances and i am afraid i will turn out like my parents hateful toward each other and never really happy… just constant contention…and they dont even live with each other! which is an amazing decision on their part. I just wish that i didnt hate this certain person at my work place… he makes it hard for me to be myself when he is around. I just wish religion didnt always get in the way. but i let it because it is my life…. but no one understands why. I WILL TELL YOU NOW! it is the only thing that has not changed in my life. it is the only thing that has brought me constant happiness when my world has been falling apart that is what this person at work didnt understand about me and never made the effort to find out why i was guarded and the way i am. i just wish he and everyone else would understand that.

Darrell Gardner passed away on memorial day. He was pulling trees and one fell on the cab of the backhoe he was in. he was killed instantly. He was an amazing teacher and person. He helped me reach my goals.

Basically many things have changed in my life since the last time i posted. I no longer live with athena. I no longer own any animals.

I no longer live with my mom or nicole. I moved to live with my grandma Dixie. I have applied for college. (yeah scary i know) I am now accepted to all four colleges that i applied for.

I applied for SUU... USU... Snow... CEU. I now maintain a 4.0 GPA. My sister Candice had a baby boy. I finally faced the fact that my grandpa Smith is in heaven and i wont be able to talk to him for a while. I have officially completed my Personal Proggress and recieved a medalion (it is kind of like an Eagle Scout For boys).

I saw a mouse yesterday in the fruit room and freaked out. I broke my phone twice. And i miss nicole's face horribly.