Hospital doors and meds aren't unfamiliar to a girl like me. I am always surrounded and influenced by anyone or anything that deals with the medical field. Ever since I was young I remember always waiting anxiously for my mother to get out of the surgery room. I was taught to give her medicine because of her kidney problems she had all her life. I was taught paitence and carefulness when my mother's health problems got worst. When it came to giving out Tylenols, temperatures, and blankets I was the one to nurse who was sick in the household. I even helped my sister give birth in the delivery room at tripler and stayed over at the hospital for over a week to help her recover from an infection. Even as I get older I still learn more and I am influenced by the field. I proudly watch my brohter, a medic in the army to go to school to become a medical practicioner. I watched my sister who tried the profession of the medical field. I watch my relatives as they move to foreign countries like Dubai and Singapore to treat the ill and I start to meet people that are high ranks and are respected in the profession. Even though it may sound weird I feel that the medical field is my passion in life. When I grow up I would like to be a head registered nurse or a doctor's practicioner and when I am at a successful point I would like to travel to 3rd world countries and help impoverished familes with free medicare.

Dr. Elizaga, a doctor of internal medicine came from a humble home in the Philippines came to America by passing a difficult board exam, which led him to the practice of medicine in Baltimore and led him to his office in Hawaii. "As a doctor of hospitals and medicine I am the one to help cure patients and prescribe the right type of medicine for them. To become a doctor is no easy work. Its a long process of schooling: 4 years undergraduate, 4 years of med school, and 3-5 years of specialty training. There were times when I wanted to give up. Not getting to go out with friends and party, I was doing my homework during the weekends and plus the work was hard and fustrating. But it's worth it because you get the heart warming feeling when you know you helped a patient. It's the best and noble profession out there. Even if your not a doctor, the medical field is the best profession out there. What kind of profession gives you the power of saving or helping someone's life?". My brother Edward Reyes is a medic in the army and helps people in a immediate, "first responder" way. "I am a medic in the army rank of E-6. I am assigned to train people who are about to be deployed in Irag, Kuwait etc to be their own combat life saver. By means, if they are injured and there are no signs of help for them they can help and nurse there own selves till help is on the way. I also do their checkups to make sure there ready for war. I am also assigned to work at Queens and Tripler Hospital as a medical specialist. To get this job offer I had to take 3-6 months of EMT schooling and army training in Texas for a year. What I like about the medical field is that I get to work with many different fields of career oriented people. And the fact that I am making a person's life better and giving them a second chance at life makes me feel better about myself. Darwin, a doctor's practiconer travels to 3rd world countries like Taiwan and the Philippines to help nurse sick children and parents in rural areas. "I am like the doctor's manager but a nurses's boss. I am told what to do but advise the ones below me. Since my doctor works around certain countries I get to do the same and travel to places like the Philippines to help with sick people who cannot afford medicare. It's a wonderful and heartfelt expierence. The schooling was hard: 2 years of undergraduate, 2 years nursing program and another 2 years of specialty training but it's all worth it at the end.

I liked seeing all the perspectives of all the types of medical workers: Doctors, medics, and practiconers. They all had to go through the same struggle of being what they wanted but in a matter of different types of schooling or years. Some went to school for over 12 years and some went to school in a rush because of its qualification for the job. The medical field does have its "dissapointing" and "real world" side. There are a lot of pains, impatience, and struggles when your part of the medical field. "My kids didn't even want to be a doctor because of the stress they know I faced. Like thinking about a patient all the time or what is right for the person and hoping all goes well"- Dr. Elizaga. "Theres the ugly side too. Like cleaning up after a patient for example: a 300 pound patient. Or seeing a dead body, or ill and injured people coming back from Iraq. It hurts but you need to be strong and face it. It's the medical field.

But I think i'm ready for the pain, struggle, and schooling because the medical field is something I want to be part of. I want to be able to make a difference in someone's life, small or big. I feel that if its something you really want and you know you have the feeling and capability of doing it will go through.

Hospital doors and meds aren't unfamiliar to a girl like me. I am always surrounded and influenced by anyone or anything that deals with the medical field. Ever since I was young I remember always waiting anxiously for my mother to get out of the surgery room. I was taught to give her medicine because of her kidney problems she had all her life. I was taught paitence and carefulness when my mother's health problems got worst. When it came to giving out Tylenols, temperatures, and blankets I was the one to nurse who was sick in the household. I even helped my sister give birth in the delivery room at tripler and stayed over at the hospital for over a week to help her recover from an infection. Even as I get older I still learn more and I am influenced by the field. I proudly watch my brohter, a medic in the army to go to school to become a medical practicioner. I watched my sister who tried the profession of the medical field. I watch my relatives as they move to foreign countries like Dubai and Singapore to treat the ill and I start to meet people that are high ranks and are respected in the profession. Even though it may sound weird I feel that the medical field is my passion in life. When I grow up I would like to be a head registered nurse or a doctor's practicioner and when I am at a successful point I would like to travel to 3rd world countries and help impoverished familes with free medicare.

Dr. Elizaga, a doctor of internal medicine came from a humble home in the Philippines came to America by passing a difficult board exam, which led him to the practice of medicine in Baltimore and led him to his office in Hawaii. "As a doctor of hospitals and medicine I am the one to help cure patients and prescribe the right type of medicine for them. To become a doctor is no easy work. Its a long process of schooling: 4 years undergraduate, 4 years of med school, and 3-5 years of specialty training. There were times when I wanted to give up. Not getting to go out with friends and party, I was doing my homework during the weekends and plus the work was hard and fustrating. But it's worth it because you get the heart warming feeling when you know you helped a patient. It's the best and noble profession out there. Even if your not a doctor, the medical field is the best profession out there. What kind of profession gives you the power of saving or helping someone's life?". My brother Edward Reyes is a medic in the army and helps people in a immediate, "first responder" way. "I am a medic in the army rank of E-6. I am assigned to train people who are about to be deployed in Irag, Kuwait etc to be their own combat life saver. By means, if they are injured and there are no signs of help for them they can help and nurse there own selves till help is on the way. I also do their checkups to make sure there ready for war. I am also assigned to work at Queens and Tripler Hospital as a medical specialist. To get this job offer I had to take 3-6 months of EMT schooling and army training in Texas for a year. What I like about the medical field is that I get to work with many different fields of career oriented people. And the fact that I am making a person's life better and giving them a second chance at life makes me feel better about myself. Darwin, a doctor's practiconer travels to 3rd world countries like Taiwan and the Philippines to help nurse sick children and parents in rural areas. "I am like the doctor's manager but a nurses's boss. I am told what to do but advise the ones below me. Since my doctor works around certain countries I get to do the same and travel to places like the Philippines to help with sick people who cannot afford medicare. It's a wonderful and heartfelt expierence. The schooling was hard: 2 years of undergraduate, 2 years nursing program and another 2 years of specialty training but it's all worth it at the end.

I liked seeing all the perspectives of all the types of medical workers: Doctors, medics, and practiconers. They all had to go through the same struggle of being what they wanted but in a matter of different types of schooling or years. Some went to school for over 12 years and some went to school in a rush because of its qualification for the job. The medical field does have its "dissapointing" and "real world" side. There are a lot of pains, impatience, and struggles when your part of the medical field. "My kids didn't even want to be a doctor because of the stress they know I faced. Like thinking about a patient all the time or what is right for the person and hoping all goes well"- Dr. Elizaga. "Theres the ugly side too. Like cleaning up after a patient for example: a 300 pound patient. Or seeing a dead body, or ill and injured people coming back from Iraq. It hurts but you need to be strong and face it. It's the medical field.

But I think i'm ready for the pain, struggle, and schooling because the medical field is something I want to be part of. I want to be able to make a difference in someone's life, small or big. I feel that if its something you really want and you know you have the feeling and capability of doing it will go through.

Journal 1: Learning and Research Process

My passion: I feel that my passion is the medical field and someday working for it and being part of it. I have had a handful of expierences of being at the hospital, meeting people who are part of the medical field, and taking care of my mother who is ill and has a panic disorder. I am also known in my family for always taking care of people when they are sick and I am usually the one who help gives my mother her medication. This passion came to me when I had to help my sister at the hospital when she had an infection while giving birth. I remember witnessing her give birth and watching as many nurses and doctors pass by to help her. I remember when i would remember all the medication given to her, when the nurses would come to do their daily check up, and when my sister's medication was given out. Helping my mother out was also another reason why I wanted to be part of the medical field. My mother has a panic disorder and she always had a problem with her kidney. I remember since I was 3 my mother was always in and out of the hospital.

What rescources will you use for your learning?
My brother Edward is a medic in the amry with a rank of E7. he can help me get a tour of Tripler hospital and let me meet some of his other medic friends. I can ask my doctor, Dr. Jacang who is iwlling to anwser any questions I have. I can ask Dr. Elizaga who I will be interning for in August doing clinical work. I can ask my older sister's friend who is a nurse who travels all over Asia such as Taiwan and the Philippines to help others in need in developing countries.

What questions do you want awnsers in your research and learning?
I would like to know the college and highschool requirements to become a nurse or doctor. I would like to know these people's past expierences and why they wanted to be part of the medical field.

How will you take action on your passion?
I think I already did. But as of right now and the future I will continue helping my mother, and since i dont have a job at the doctor's office till August I will make appoitments with other hospitals so I can do community service and volunteer to help with other paitents.

Journal #32

Describe a memorable learning expierence?
The Sweet 16 competition for the STN convention at Anahiem California was truly a memorable learning expierence. The sweet 16 was a competition where broadcast journalism students from all over the US had to create a package using a word from the 16 words given to us. We had 16 minuites to pick the word and we had 16 hours to create a package. It felt like the iniation to being a broadcast journalism and it was super intense! Being around students who were doing the same thing you were doing!! Even though it was my first year I learned a lot from making a really good pacakge among all the pressure my group and I were facing.

Ideal school?

My ideal school would be a school that took out all the subjects or classes we do not need. A school where we learn what we really need to use in life. I would want a school where for some students who know what they want to do when they grow up can pick courses that will help them prepare for the career they want. Or maybe they could have programs like how menemac does but for like people who want to be in the nursing or business program. I would learn the best if I was learning whatnI really needed to learn and to not be rushed by teachers! To be given time to do the work in class and not be shame to ask for help cause I might sound stupid

Journal #31

My passion is writing. I feel that my passion is writing because I am actually good at it and its an alternative to expressing how i feel and giving me good grades at school. I absolutely love to write: When it comes to poems, quotes, venting on my tumblr as well. I also like finding out others people's writing as well like on tumblr so I can excel in my writing skills. Writing soothes the pain and makes everything feel better for me. Sometimes when writing a vent or piece to myself or on tumblr it acutally sounds good and interesting.

I believe essay draft

High school; Where education is priority, freinds are made, and where life lessons are gone through, taught, and learned. High school is pretty much life. High school teaches everything you need to know in life when it comes to passing classes, finding a job, or being a good friend and student. I believe in high school and the traditional American school system; 5 days of school in a week and 4 years of high school that includes freshmen, sophomore, junior, and senior years. I am happy about the free education America has given to its potential world leaders (students). Students in America can go to school for free and absorb all the things we need in order to succeed in life. But controversy over new school policies in Hawaii will make me appreciate school so much more.

"Its Furlough Fridays at Moanalua High school Now." Is what I kept hearing at school around the begining of last year October. It was actually Furlough Friday for all public schools in the state of Hawaii and it would be going into effect at the end of October. Hawaii's government had cut off one day of school to help with budgets for the economy. That would not mean not having school on Friday for certain weeks of the year. That would mean a student's day at school cut off, a student's learning and education as well. But there's more than that. Hawaii is also thinking about having 3 years of high school and cutting out our senior year. Horrible isn't? We already have one day less of school on certain weeks then your going to cut off another year as well? Where will all the learning go? Where will all the education go if you cut off even more?

I believe in high school; I believe in a failing grade but improvement. I believe in taking tests, raising your hand in class to anwser a quedtion. I believe in high school events; Going to home coming games on Fridays, dances, winter fans, and the famous junior and senior proms. I believe that students are the up most potential leaders of the earth. I see us as rocket scientists, lawyers, ministers, business people, entreprenuers, singers, actos, and models. I see us making a change in life. I see us finding a cure for cancer, saving earth from global warming, and finding peace in the Middle East and giving help in developing countries. But cutting opff more time in school won't let us achieve these wonderful dreams.

journal #30 brainstorming

I would like to do my essay on my Flipino Culture. We believe in hardwork and determination and I can base my story on when I went to the Philippines in the summer of 08