What I Want to Be
As a child, we are usually asked one question very early on in life, in the moment we might not know but it one of the biggest questions we will ever be asked. What do you want to be when you grow up? Most children will say they want to be a doctor, teacher, police officer, etc. When i was asked what i wanted to be when i grew up, my answer would vary between giraffeopologist (the name i gave to people who studied giraffes), a witch, or a mad scientist. My answer started to change the years passed, i grew older, became wiser and started to discover who i am and what i was really interested in, the human body and mind. At the age of thirteen i figured i had watched enough criminal minds to classify my self as a criminologist, but in march of 2011 i took a trip to south africa that changed my mind completely and made me certain that i wanted to be a part of doctors without boarders.
To begin, i am going to take you back to 2011 when me and my family packed up and shipped off to south africa where my father grew up. We started in Capetown and journeyed all up the coast to Durban. On this trip i got the chance to see a lot of poverty and how much we take what we have for granted. From that moment on i knew i needed to do something that would make a difference. When the opportunity arose for me to participate in a Habitat for Humanity mission trip i jumped at the offer, which led to me spending last march break in Hawaii. While exploring volcano national park with my group, a friend of mine fell and was left with a large gouge on her knee, as she laid there in a dais i watched as the look of fear and panic made its way across all of my teachers faces, none of them knowing what to do. Being a person who works well under pressure i knew that i needed to help and my lifeguard training allowed me to do so. It was in that life changing moment, while i was applying pressure to this girl's wounds, that i started thinking that paramedic field work was the thing for me.
To begin, i am going to take you back to 2011 when me and my family packed up and shipped off to south africa where my father grew up. We started in Capetown and journeyed all up the coast to Durban. On this trip i got the chance to see a lot of poverty and how much we take what we have for granted. From that moment on i knew i needed to do something that would make a difference. When the opportunity arose for me to participate in a Habitat for Humanity mission trip i jumped at the offer, which led to me spending last march break in Hawaii. While exploring volcano national park with my group, a friend of mine fell and was left with a large gouge on her knee, as she laid there in a dais i watched as the look of fear and panic made its way across all of my teachers faces, none of them knowing what to do. Being a person who works well under pressure i knew that i needed to help and my lifeguard training allowed me to do so. It was in that life changing moment, while i was applying pressure to this girl's wounds, that i started thinking that paramedic field work was the thing for me.