Because sometimes life doesn’t go to plan!
So since October of last year I have been studying Natural Sciences at the very fine University of Birmingham.
My whole life I have wanted to be a teacher but I decided I’d get my undergrad degree in the subject I love – Biology!
Getting into uni and coming back to England was a big step for me; full of expectations, nerves and faith. But also a lot of fun!
However, after having completed a semester studying the anatomy of insects and memorizing countless formulas for various wind patterns, I came to the conclusion that Natural Sciences wasn’t going to be the right program for me after all and perhaps I should follow the gut instinct I had been feeling for a while – to become a nurse.
Don’t get me wrong, what I learned during my first term was all fascinating, but the prospect of learning more (rather pointless) pieces of information for another three years didn’t exactly ‘excite’ me! PLUS I would be required to memorize the whole of the Phylogentic Tree (and for those who know what it is – it’s pretty large!), the body parts of grasshoppers, the reproductive nature of birds and many, many more things.
After a lot of deliberation, I decided that I should spend my three years and £27 000 of tuition fees in a different and, dare I say, more productive way!
Thus I took the plunge and am now in the process of waiting to find out if I have been given a place to study the miraculous human body – in the form of nursing!
It was scary changing my mind as it had taken so much work to get into the Natural Science program (and even harder to convince my parents to let me move away!) but handing this form in felt like the right thing to do!
So now I am currently unemployed and stir crazy until September! I am looking for a job to keep me sane and to re-build my suffering savings account, but this all takes time!
In the meantime, my eating has suffered a bit as I am all out of routine and my days do not have much structure. (I may have to blog often to keep myself occupied! – Sorry!).
BUT, hopefully things will work out and I will successfully move on from being a crazy science student…..
To Nurse Ruby! …
*P.s, It looks like I’m already destined to be great – when you type in “super nurse” on Google this pops up! :
Ruby The Registered Nurse! – Has a ring to it, huh?!
I never thought I’d become a nurse, as I said, I was going to be a teacher, but I feel really settled in my decision and I am grateful for this ‘curveball’ life has thrown me!
Don’t get disgruntled if life isn’t going the way you want it to, everything happens for a reason and you are on your own custom-designed yellow brick road!
As a quote once read on the wall of my Grade 12 Chemistry class:
“If life throws you lemons, make lemonade … then take the molarity of it!”.
Haha!
Peace and Love 
The Honest Life 