Grad, mountains, and logs
Wow, a lot has happened since I last posted. This will have to be a summary of the highlights. I finished up my last semester at Prairie, my parents came up for grad, I graduated, the rest of my family joined us and we spent a few days in the mountains in Canmore, I hung out with Tim Andries, and then drove down here to Plains, MT, where I am at currently. Right now I am living at Camp Bighorn. I am volunteering here part-time, on weekends and some evenings. I commute about 45 miles one way to work doing construction near Thompson Falls. I am preparing to take a 26-day long Wilderness Emergency Medical Technician (WEMT) by Remote Medical International at Snoqualmie Pass, WA, starting on July 16-Aug 10. I added a new album of photos, from my graduation, so check them out if you’re interested.
This Fall I want to start pre-med classes! That’s a whole long story in and of itself. Being a missionary doctor has been a dream of mine for a long time (at least since early highschool), but the journey to get there has been delayed for the last several years. I do not regret doing the Explore internship at all, even though it was very difficult at times, and it changed my plans a lot. I feel so much better prepared now for whatever kind of vocation I end up in, even being a medical doctor. This is something that I am still very much in the process of, and I alternate between being very excited and confident that this is the right thing for me to do, and being very intimidated and thinking there is no way I could do it. It has been a great exercise in seeking God’s leading and learning to trust in him, as well as evaluating my gifts and examining my motivations.
I am really excited about this WEMT course, as I have been wanting to do the EMT training since I was a sophomore in highschool. The course that RMI offers was the one that really impressed me when I was looking at different WEMT programs, because of its advanced level of training, and with it teaching each step of the EMT training with the wilderness context in mind, not just doing the standard urban EMT training and then adding on a wilderness upgrade. I just got the textbook for it today and started reading it. It is an EMT-Intermediate textbook, and is almost 1,600 pages!
Alright, well that is all I can write for now, but more is on its way!
PS The mountains in the title refers to my family vacation in Canmore as well as a daytrip I did with Tim Andries, and the logs refers to my job, working for a log home construction business.
June 7th, 2007 at 11:57 am
A POST!!! Wow, that’s great.
It’s nice to hear an update, and see something on the blog. You may have to email your friends to remind them to subscribe to this.
Anyway, it’s good to hear from you. I’m glad things are still working out to do the WEMT course.
June 18th, 2007 at 5:59 pm
Hey Andy, cool to read about what you’re up to. I saw your comment on Timches.com, thanks. And congrats to you too! Can you believe we’re both done? Except that you’ve got a lot ahead of you, school wise, but that’s cool. The EMT sounds really awesome and I’m glad you’re pursuing your dream to be a doctor. Gonna be tough but I’m sure you can do it. I’m in my last day in the Philippines with my family. I head back to the states in a couple of hours. You have a phone I can call you at? Be cool to talk. Hope to talk to you soon.