Interview

So, today I had an interview for CSUF's grad program in Counseling. I feel pretty confident about my acceptance. The faculty seemed pretty down to earth so it made the process a lot more comfortable. I was in a group interview with about 11 other interviewees. The letter is expected to be sent out some time at the beginning of May. I'm excited and have decided that I will most likely stick to CSUF-mostly because of financial reasons. Mount St. Mary's sounds good and I would love to go there for their beautiful campus, but it's insanely pricey and I'd have to rent an apartment. I know that wherever I end up, it's part of God's plan.

I want to go off topic and share about a little experience I had with my kids at work. Upon greeting some of my early-bird kids one day, one little girl said "Miss Tracy, we saw a bag hung on a tree and it had eyes balls and a knife in there!" So I asked, "which tree did you see it hung on? How did it make you feel?"

The girl replied," we're scared."

So then I said, "oh, there's nothing to be scared of. Do you know why?"

Then, the girl said, "I know. Because Jesus is always with us. He's everywhere. He's probably sitting next to you right now."

That little comment really warmed my heart.

I see so much improvement they've made as students and I made as a program leader. In the next few weeks, we don't know when, but someone from the program is going to come and evaluate us. We had a mock evaluation today by one of the staff in the program office. He said he was impressed by mine and another PL's class because we really utilized what he taught us in training. YAY! Last time, we got a pretty bad score. I think the main reason was because our former site coordinator wasn't full time, so she didn't have enough time to organize the program and do everything that needs to be done in order for our program to improve. We got a 4.5 on a 10-point scale. that's pretty close to horrible. But during the mock evaluation, we got a 7! 7 is considered very good. Of course we want it to be a 10, but from a 4.5 to a 7...I think we're doing pretty darn good!

I'm so proud of my students!