Hello lovely people. Prodigal Baindu returns... I can't believe I have been away from this joint for two weeks ( Note to self: Child you can't be giving up on my resolution so early into the new year). I know it is too early into my resolutions for me to be pulling a disappearing stunt like this. I promise to do better (pinkie swear and fingers crossed). Moving on...
These days I am withdrawing and spending most of my time alone... but I am still going for my therapy sessions.
My week has been a bit all over the place with regards to my emotions and my health. It is third week of my last semester of grad school and work load is already becoming overwhelming especially with all the group work, assignments and projects piling in.
There is no doubt group work training is necessary for public health professionals, I mean public health is all about working with people, but my oh my can they get draining and exhausting. Setting meeting times for working students with very different schedules, setting the work agenda and pace, making sure everyone is on the same page, managing different personalities and the whole shabang makes it challenging for me personally. Don't get me wrong I have worked in amazing groups and delivered solid results so while it may be difficult and tedious sometimes, I am grateful for these opportunities
Then there is my capstone thesis which I really need to wrap up my by now if I am to graduate in June yet it is moving at the space of a snail on sedative :-(
Talking about graduation, I have been thinking a lot about what lies ahead after I walk across that stage come June. I am sincerely nervous about life after grad school, I am so used to being a student that the though of being a full time working adult and the responsibilities that come with it scares me a bit. I have always wanted to back to Sierra Leone after completing my degree and I still intend to do so.
The question remains whether I should relocate right away or whether I should stay back in Canada for a year or so to get my permanent residency. With a Sierra Leonean passport you are constantly treated like a leper and made to jump though gazillion hoops at visa offices and immigration ports of enternce thus making a Canadian PR wonderful asset for my future career and my sanity in general.
But then staying back in Canada when my heart is in Sierra Leone and when I know deep down there is a greater need for public health workers right now more than ever following the Ebola epidemic; just makes my staying here feel so wrong.
Hmm decisions decisions..
Well folks, that's it for today, I just wanted to pop in and share what was on my mind.
