America letter # 18. Internship.
April 26, 2008
Dear friends,
The extra studies everybody(?) has waited for in excitement are so much extra that I will delay my studies another year: I have decided to stay another year in the USA to do as the American students, that is, do a one-year internship.
I started thinking about this just before Easter. The associate director of contextual education at Wartburg asked whether I could do an internship here when I said that I still did not know whether to become a pastor. I replied her question with the same question, and after having reflected for a few days, I found out that, yes, I could do that. This week I got my assignment. It is shared between United Lutheran Church and Good Samaritan Care Center in Eugene, Oregon.
My year at Wartburg is soon coming to an end; we have three weeks left. We had graduation banquet yesterday, and I found that I have started the process of grieving for leaving Dubuque. When I do the internship I will still be a student at Wartburg, though I will be several states away. So I will not be physically at Wartburg (and I will miss that), but to belong here means a lot anyway.
Between the end of the semester and the start of the internship I will do CPE (clinical pastoral education), as I have mentioned before, at Bellevue Hospital Center in New York City. There are lots of exciting challenges to look forward to!
Greetings from Hanne.
Dear friends,
The extra studies everybody(?) has waited for in excitement are so much extra that I will delay my studies another year: I have decided to stay another year in the USA to do as the American students, that is, do a one-year internship.
I started thinking about this just before Easter. The associate director of contextual education at Wartburg asked whether I could do an internship here when I said that I still did not know whether to become a pastor. I replied her question with the same question, and after having reflected for a few days, I found out that, yes, I could do that. This week I got my assignment. It is shared between United Lutheran Church and Good Samaritan Care Center in Eugene, Oregon.
My year at Wartburg is soon coming to an end; we have three weeks left. We had graduation banquet yesterday, and I found that I have started the process of grieving for leaving Dubuque. When I do the internship I will still be a student at Wartburg, though I will be several states away. So I will not be physically at Wartburg (and I will miss that), but to belong here means a lot anyway.
Between the end of the semester and the start of the internship I will do CPE (clinical pastoral education), as I have mentioned before, at Bellevue Hospital Center in New York City. There are lots of exciting challenges to look forward to!
Greetings from Hanne.
posted by Hanne at 4:14 PM
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