My NEW MOON review!!!
MAJOR SPOILERS BELOW. You have been warned. Wow. What a drastic difference this movie was from Twilight. I’ve read that the budget wasn’t really that much more. I think Twilight had about $35M and New Moon had about $50M. Not sure how true either of those numbers are but

Clinical Assessments
As you know, I'm interning in Adoptions, which is definitely a field of Social Work that I'm very interested in. Many of my Social Work classmates, as well as close friends and family, are very aware that I'm not interested in the Mental Health, Addiction, etc. side of the profession. It's not for me, and I have no interest in it. I'm way more interested in the Macro side of the profession (lobbying, advocacy, prevention programming, community organizing/building, etc), as well as working with refugees, teen mothers and obviously, children! That being said, It has been a bit difficult for me to really see the clinical side to the work I've b

Wow. I have so much to update...
This post may be long. I really need to take the time to write more often. :/My internship is going to be over for the semester in 4 weeks! I can't tell you how much I've enjoyed working at my internship, and I can't rave enough about my awesome field instructor. I couldn't ask for a better relationship between the two of us. We have similar personalities and views, so we get along fantastic. My field professor came in Friday to meet with us and we both sang each other's praises. It was a proud moment. :)Last week was crazy bu

BUSY!!!!
Today I got to sit in on the Adoption Team Unit Meeting, which was hysterical, to say the least. Those women (and their token male colleague) are a hoot! They are planning a holiday party in December for their foster children and prospective families, and I got talked into teaching the kids dances like the macarena and electric slide. LOL! :) I am also helping to plan the crafts, which will be lotsa fun. Next Monda

Bridges out of Poverty
Today I attended a training titled Bridges out of Poverty. The training was developed by Ruby Payne and colleagues at aha! process, inc. The piece of poverty that this training focuses is the economic piece, which is certainly a big part but doesn't cover everything. The economic status of someone is only one thread of their quilt, ya know? There are many other threads that make up that quilt - age, martial status, sexual orientation, location, gender, religion, r