Each day comes bearing its gifts. Untie the ribbons. ~ Ann Ruth Schabaker

This past week, I had a nice surprise.  One of our former  (now graduated and practicing) Occupational Therapy students came to see me.  She has been working as a traveling occupational therapist and is in the process of applying for licenses to practice in Ireland and England.  She had a stack of forms that needed to be completed verifying the academic program as well as all her fieldwork experiences.  We went through the forms and filled out all the required information for the Ireland license.  It was fun to catch up and find out what has been going on in her life.  Knowing the students is really one of the satisfying parts of the job at Sacred Heart.  Because our program is small, we really do know get to know our students and hear from most of them long after they graduate!  Anyway, I believe this is the first time we have had a student apply for licensing outside of the United States…guess we are going global.  I made her promise (or at least strongly suggested) to take our Level 2 students for their fieldwork affiliations (clinicals) in whatever country she ends up practicing in so more of our students can have that international fieldwork experience. 

Not to change the subject, but a month-long walking contest began October 1 for SHU employees.  We are supposed to wear pedometers and record our steps each day. At the end of the month, we hand in the sheets containing our record of the number of steps taken for October.   While I have no aspirations of first place, I figured it cannot hurt and can only be a healthy thing to do right?  So, at noon today I went to the lobby of Cambridge where I joined others and eight of us walked around the neighborhoods near Cambridge campus.  We walked for about 30 minutes and I must admit that it was a pretty good workout.  What a great idea to get up and move and a lot of fun to chat with everyone while we did it!!!

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