Hallelujah the German test is over!!! I think I actually did very well. The classes are getting more demanding and tests are getting harder. But I am still having a ball.

I had to go back to the infirmary for a blood pressure re-check. How many students do they see for that I wonder? Anyway I saw the same doctor which I feel we had a great connection. I told her about the mixup and confusion I had had with the immunization waiver -- which they still were trying to clear up. Another one of my new friends, who is a young Marine wife, was unnecessarily harassed since she had already sent in her shot records, was very upset about being dropped. She wanted to file a grievance about the way things were handled. I told the doctor about this to her horror she apologized and said they had had problems with their staff they were trying to rectify. I said this young student's husband is deployed and her mother lived in Connecticut and I felt so bad for her so I became a mother figure for her consoling her. The doctor told me I had been placed here for a reason. Well, of course I had I thought. Immediately I thought, for me! But then I realized she meant for the kids. I think some of these youngsters do look to me as a mother figure. I forget they are miles away from theirs.

At my heart I will always be a Mom first. Then a student.

But I sure am loving being a student.