After submitting my application to Ross, I took a day trip to San Francisco on the 9th of March for my personal interview.....I took the morning and walked around the city including walking 3 miles to pier 39 and back to the subway.....I was a gorgeous morning....and all the omens were there.
Stange Day.....
I wore my eagle feather necklace my dad gave me, my pearl earrings Robert gave me and a bracelet my mom gave me. I figured I needed all the good luck I could get....but my charms brought more thank luck.....they followed with numerous coincidences.....
During my flight from SLC to San Fran. I was seated in the last seat on the plane. After landing I was sitting waiting for the whole plane to offload and was laughing to myself that baggage might have been a better seat. I then began pondering the idea of the boys being shipped to St. Kitts and the chapter in Marley and Me that painted a picture of the yellow lab barking the whole plane ride....with my luck I thought that would be Drake or Widgeon!!!!......and to my surprises as I walked off the plane on to the tarmac there sat a yellow lab barking in his kennel at me. How strange I thought and immediately began thinking of Grams and how she must be up there behind this coincidence. As I walked into the airport I immediately began smelling cigaret smoke and as I took the escalator up...there on my right was a smoking room (a place my grandmother would have immediately ran to after having to sit for 25min to get out of the back of the plane)........and there sat an older lady that looked very similar to Grams happily smoking her cigaret and smiling back at me......I than began to think I was imagining things....but these coincidences didn't stop there.....I bought my ticket to ride the BART system (subway) and got on the train headed to down town for some site seeing before my interview. After hanging up the phone from calling Robert, I looked up and to my surprise saw an add poster on the train car's billboard for Ross University ......during my 6 mile round trip walking excursion from the subway station to Pier 39 and back, I was excited to find what I thought was local bagel shop and stopped for some food and a break on the way back to the subway. Upon making the choice to eat at the bagel shop I laughed to myself that it was fitting to choose a bagel shop to spend my morning milling over my future and my interview notes since I spent a large portion of mornings during school meeting Margaret for breakfast at Einstein's, studying and talking about our life decisions to go to vet and med school. I had wrote her about need her here before my GRE's!!! and as I walk into this "local" bagel shop and look around.....it almost looks just like and Einstein's......little did I know that Einstein's has sister store called Noah' Bagels (or something like that).....how random....
My interview was nothing like what I expected or had prepared for.... I thought I would be asked ethical questions including my thoughts on euthanasia, terminal surgery for education use, lab animal medicine, comparisons of animal welfare vs. animal rights, and what aspect of veterinary medicine I was interested in and what I wanted to do with my degree if i got in. I was prepared to answer a million questions...none of which were asked. I was feeling sort of dismal about my interview and was skeptical of the outcome......The beautiful morning had turned into a very blustery day with horrific winds......and as I left my interview the office space next door was being advertised for lease by Kate Walsh......so after a strange day with weird but good omens.....a conflicting horrible interview (well on my standards) and my plane leaving San Fran being delayed.....I was feeling a conflicted..........
Yet after waiting a little of over a week....
We finally heard back from Ross Vet School that I HAVE BEEN ACCEPTED!!!
This leaves us with a little over a month to get packed and details situated...... including travel, housing, financial aid, the boys...and our vehicles and house here in Salt Lake taken care of. I have to be on island between the 29th of April and the 2nd of May.....
So, we have both put in our two week notices/quite our jobs and we are quickly trying to make arrangements.....
While we are EXTREMELY excited to be taking this enormous step forward, yet we are both stressed and nervous at the same time......this is going to be a huge adventure and change.
Tomorrow is Robert's 29th birthday and my 26th.....we are planning on spending the morning out at Blue Lake. Robert has a couple dives out there with Neptune and the boys and I are going to take in some fresh air and pictures. We are going to spend the evening with friends at the Bayou celebrating birthdays, getting into vet school and our going away.....this is the last free day in Salt Lake......we now have to kick our butts in gear and get our check list completed before heading home to Skagit Valley before leaving for St. Kitts....
Some pictures from my day trip to San Francisco for my vet school interview.....
Famous Two Story Carousel At Pier 39
Cool Sculpture
Good luck on St. Kitts. Eat at Spratnets, its awesome and Stonewalls.
ReplyDeleteThe island is slow but the Marriott helps out a lot. Get the double burger at OTI.
Make the island your home and don't associate with shady islanders. Ross people tend to get a drug problem on the island.