Yesterday, our village had a successful suicide. It has been over two years since there was a suicide, but this young man succeeded and was found dead by his mother. There have been at least 3 attempts in the past month by 18 year old girls, but they were all okay. It was a very sad day. Two clinic people had to go and pronounce him dead, but the police had already been there and dealt with things. It was a hanging. This makes me so sad.
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I am unsure if I have mentioned much about college for the fall semester. I am currently taking a medical sciences certificate program for my job, which will give me my medical laboratory assistant certificate. I am the first person in the company to try this new online program since University of Alaska stopped offering it. We will see how it goes. I know a lot of the stuff right now, but near the end of the semester, I start learning new things in microbiology and hematology that I will go to Bethel hospital to learn and practice.
I am also taking an Ancient History class through University of Alaska just because. Boyfriend kind of thinks it is a waste of money because we have books here and he can teach me stuff, but I need structure to learn. I need to write papers and have assignments. If I just read on my own, I do not absorb it. Besides, it still gives me upper division history credits which I need whether I finish my bachelors in history or even get an Associates in Medical Laboratory Science and minor in history (That is an actual thing). I wanted to be done with a degree in Lab Science quickly since I am half done, but unfortunately, I do not think I can take more than 2 classes at a time and do well right now. Chemistry was rough for me doing it distance learning, and I still have more chemistry classes to do. I cannot do chemistry and something else like microbiology at the same time. I do need to retake Anatomy and Physiology (an entire years worth) so I might do that spring and summer. I am just taking whatever I can while the company pays. My own classes for fun like history are not too expensive since I am resident now. Next year I will actually get the PFD!! This year it is around $2100 a person. Am I weird for actually looking forward to writing college papers and getting upset that the history paper is only suppose to be 5 pages? My last political science paper was 40 pages single spaced (required to be 25-40 pages). One good thing is my boyfriend has books here for my research and we can discuss ideas and such. My history book was lost in the mail for a month and i just received it Wednesday. I am trying to catch up on 70 pages this weekend. Crazy mail. I am pleased to have projects to focus on again. I flew to St Mary's August 23-31 for work. They were having a lab emergency with no one around who could run labs because of medical leaves and an emergency. I stayed over the weekend because I was on call for any lab emergencies. It rained almost the entire time until Saturday night so I barely took any pictures or walked around. I di go exploring in the work truck with a health aide. We drove to Pitka's Point which is a tiny village next to St Mary;s. Maybe 100 people max. She was obsessed with looking for bears by the dump, but that is not my thing. You do not go looking for bears. They are dangerous! It was a good trip. I got one re-hire caught up on lab competencies so she could take over.
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