I arrived on L4 at 10:00. I had to wait a few minutes because the AT just ran out the ward. She didn't have much for me to do since the patients on her unit are pretty independent. They get discharged pretty quickly too. She had me glue some decorations on the May calendar and stamp some papers while she ran off to a meeting. She brought Simon the therapy cat up after lunch, but there were only 3 patients. She took me around the hospital again (she did that in the morning too) to ask if anybody else needed help. Two other volunteers arrived and she handed them over to another AT. We bumped into the AT I worked with yesterday and she immediately took me in her unit. Since all of E4's bed were full, it's obvious that she needed help. She was head-high in paperwork that was all due today. Her patients are "very demanding" too, so she had to keep running around tending to them (or telling them "No! Can't you see I have all paperwork! It's the last day of the month and I need to get all this finished!"). I would totally get annoyed too if I had a bunch of stuff to do and people kept bothering me. This one patient that I met yesterday wanted to watch TV. He did this yesterday too, but the AT shooed him away. I felt bad for her because she looked so stress. I decided to stay an extra hour to help her with some charting. She mentioned that if I ever need a letter or recommendation that she would write one for me. It's only the second day I've worked with her! E4 is great though. It keeps me busy.
I got labeled Korean again today. One of the patients that was playing with Simon kept pointing at me and told her physical therapist something in Chinese. The PT asked if I was Korean. Haha...the patient said had "Korean eyes" (second time in a week!) Someone asked if I was Japanese today too. Jeez.
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If you haven't heard about Amtrekker, you gotta check out his website!
I wish I had the guts to do something similar to what he's doing. It looks so fun. I have a list of 10 things I want to do before I die but I'm not going to go hurry off and have them checked off. Anyways, Amtrekker is in the city today!! KAKOW!!!!
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