Identity Crisis Averted

I've been having a blog identity crisis for awhile now.  I've been wanting a blog but I've had a hard time committing to a theme of sorts.  Those of you who have paid attention to my blog in the past may have noticed that I even deleted all of my old stuff.  Now I realize that I think I always knew what I wanted to do, but the time wasn't right.  But now it is.  I'm going to share the cool stuff that I'm doing in the field of nutrition.

As most of you know, I'm studying Nutrition and Integrative Health at Tai Sophia Institute and I'm about to begin my 2nd (and final) year next week.  It's very exciting.  Part of the program is to complete either clinicals or a practicum and I've chosen the road less traveled, the practicum road.  On top of designing and implementing my own practicum, I also have to complete 1000 hours of service (in addition to taking an exam) to become a CNS.  Because this means I'll be doing a lot of self-guided projects,I thought it would be fun to use my blog as a medium to share the fun things I have going on with my family, friends, and classmates.  And it doubles as a nice resource to share with prospective employers when I graduate.  I suppose after earning 2 degrees in education, the idea of not making a portfolio as a culmination doesn't even seem like an option.

I'll wait to share with you my practicum idea, but just know it's gonna be good.  I've had a million ideas, and knew as soon as I came up with this one that it was the one.  But you'll have to wait.

Next month is National Farm to School Month and October 24 is National Food Day. To begin working towards my hours, I've decided to host a small event at my work.  I teach a class called hospitality and run a pretty legit cafe with my students teaching job skills, cooking skills, work readiness skills, and some social skills for good measure (though one particular student with Autism often informs me that I'm the awkward one, so...).  We feed about 75-100 people a day who work on the campus.  We have a school garden that the horticulture class runs.  I don't use their produce as much as I should, but I'm going to use these two events to showcase our school's garden through a special breakfast and farm stand in my cafe.  I'll also create some type of literature to share with my customers about farm to school and it's importance.  I'll be sure to document the event and post some pics and all that good stuff.  I mean, that is the new direction of my blog after all.

I'm excited.  This is a fun first little project that will play to my strengths and interests and get the ball rolling for my development of great projects.  It should be an awesome year if I can combine my school into my work. I'm looking forward to sharing with you all!

If you want a glimpse of what I do at work check this out:

http://blog.kennedykrieger.org/2011/08/running-the-show/

or this...

http://blog.kennedykrieger.org/2011/06/a-big-heart-goes-a-long-way/#more-248