Rebooting, some more.

 Thursday this past week was the big day.

View from our window towards the sunrise, only in summers,
because the window is pointing north. But this was taken a day
before - it was raining cats and dogs on the big day.

The final part of my exam procedures, a three-hour practical exam with a set list of nursing/caretaking activities plus some extras, two examiners looking over your shoulder.

The staff on the ward put up a poster of encouragement for the students on that day, which I think is really nice.

My favorite picture is the elephant walking the tight-rope. I am saving that one for future reference. I had been allotted the main patient I wanted, and she was a sweet, slightly demented lady of 89 who did her best to cooperate. During the days before she had repeatedly talked about how nice it was that the sun was shining, a topic we could not peruse on that day because of the rain. Everything went well enough, although I was pretty nervous - it is such an unpleasant situation to have two examiners looking on. I don't think I made any major mistakes that would have endangered the patient's safety, I hope I disinfected my hands frequently enough, and I think I gave the impression I knew what I was doing. So although I won't know for sure until September when we will be given the grades, I think I can assume I passed. Which is all I care for right now, I just do want this period to be over. Not an easy thing to go back to school at my age, together with youngsters who could have been my (grand)children. 

 

I was welcomed at home by a bouquet of flowers from my husband, and
another one arrived by courier a day later from my good friend Regine.
Our table looks like a greenhouse now, and I am enjoying the flowers
tremendously.

Thursday afternoon I sat around for a while, letting it sink in, went for a swim at the pool. In the evening I signed up for SAQA's 'reboot' special interest group on facebook, to get me back in a creative swing of something. I had seen that they were starting early August, so I had decided to join in two days late. I have no real clue what I am doing, I just want to fondle fabrics and follow the flow. I am diving into my scrap-stash. This is how I started on Thursday. A first piece, part of which had been preassembled, but I did sew one seam on Thursday. The main act, however, was indeed the signing up and posting it.

Since then I have been taking a bit of an inventory of what kind of scraps I have, quite a few are preassembled already in a kind of tone-in-tone arrangement.

And as I had managed to put in the final weft-parts in the weaving piece I showed in the last post, I could take that off the wall, with a lot of pins involved. Now I have room to throw the scraps onto the design wall, and we will see where it will take me.

I do have more plans for the weaving piece, but that needs more thinking through.