Friday, September 4, 2009

So many areas, what to choose

So I am new to this whole blogging thing. I would like to have just one blog, but the areas of my life i would like to write about are all over the place. Yet to me they overlap and in the future will overlap even more.

What am I talking about you ask? Well, I am a nurse by profession. I am married to a wonderful man from Honduras. My husband has/had many issues with immigration here. We want to move back to Honduras to raise our kids and I am crossing my fingers that I can find a good job as a nurse down there. I have wanted to move out of the US since I was abut 13 years old. I don't hate the US or anything. I just feel so much more comfortable in Latin America. Some people think I am crazy for wanting to live in a place where the power goes off almost everyday. I love the importance of family and the more laidback lifestyle. It was when I traveled Latin America that I found myself and decided what to do with my life: improving health care in Latin America. I love my family here also, but I know they will come visit for extended trips. Honduras does have amazing beaches and food.  So I hope you can follow as these life roads of mine overlap. I hope that my experiences will be helpful or amusing to others.

Rebe

Friday, August 7, 2009

I'm a nurse!

I passed my nursing boards! Take that- NCLEX! And I never have to take it again. And I start work Monday, eek!

This is the first step, of many, to get us back to Honduras. I am still clueless how I will get a job as a nurse in Honduras. I don't have doubts about my ability to do it all in Spanish, but from what Noel tells me hospital nurses are not nice. I will likely need more training, like becoming a nurse practitioner, to get a nurse career in Honduras as Noel tells me there is only one type of nurse as opposed to our levels of ability here (nurse specialist, nurse manager, pediatric nurse, nurse practitioner). I would love to run a clinic . . . but first to master the basics