My Student Life

My name is Lucelli Sanchez, the main blogger for the San Pedro Foundation. I don't want to make this all about me, but I want to share you all what is life as a Nursing student at the University of Belize. First of all, I decided to make nursing my career because it is an area of health care that has captivated my interest since I was small. As I grew up, I enjoyed being able to help others. Seeing people sick, depressed, or sad, made me sad too because there would not be anything that I can do to help them, especially when it was related to a disease. My passion for caring for people and always seeing them happy made me more passionate for nursing. Having caring, compassionate, sympathetic, patient and loving characteristics, I decided that Nursing would give me the privilege to help others--educating them on do's and dont's so that they can keep a good health, help them to maintain their health or improve it, and if they are sick, nourish them back to health. Thus, that is why I was enrolled at the University of Belize. Life at the university is, well, it is fun and hard work. There are times of fun, stressed evenings, times of sadness, sleepless nights, ... there is time for everything. However, most of the time it is fun. Studying is fun when a study group is involved, when discussions are made while eating lunch together, when practicing is done with colleagues that are shy at first but then become used to being your "lab rats". Studying is better when I go to sleep early in the night and wake up early in the morning (3:00 a.m.). Studying is better when a snack is by my side and it is silent outside. Now, the stress comes with procrastination. I believe that procrastination is everybody's favorite at some time in life and it is no strange matter when it comes to education. At times it is great when I procrastinate because it helps me to think harder and my best ideas start flowing, but at other times, worrying about the deadline just make my neurons shutdown, ideas stop flowing, and stress takes place. sometimes stress appears because the instructors themselves procrastinated during the semester and then want to pile a mountain load of assignments when the semester is soon over. At other times, it appears when the colleagues are being irrational, noisy and uncaring for the lousy day that you had had. other times, it is just there. Sad moments are part of life and those too play an important role in our memories, because it is in those types of situations that we know who our friends are. A good friend will stand by your side at good times and also in the bad times, they wont care if you are poor or rich, if you are the smartest or dumbest person in the class. My friends are the greatest I know, and all nurses. They always stand by know, and knowing that they have that caring nature, I know they will be great nurses in the future. Sleepless nights are part of a nurse's life, even in a student nurse's one too. There are nights that we are given to much assignment for a week, and the only way to finish those assignments is to work through the night. At times, the assignment may be hard to understand, at other times it may be difficult to analyze, but they all get done. After assignments are finished we cross check our answers. My friends and I cross check answers through Facebook. Who says Facebook can only be used to chat? We all like Facebook not only because we can chat with each other at the same time, but because it makes assignments, proof reading, and discussion more fun, especially, when we are all at great distance away from each other. School is fun when there are good friends to share the memories with.