Here are reflections from Julie Pihl, an OSM student who has just finished her second quarter of massage training. To read her musings from the end of her first quarter go to the April 12 blog.

By Julie Pihl
Tonight is my last final for this term. It covers the respiratory system, integumentary system and the urinary system. I have been studying diligently as usual. Yesterday was my last final for Kinesiology upper…..Now that class has taught me a few things about the previously mentioned systems. All the quizzes, tests and oh certainly the practical have affected my rate of breathing, made me break out in a rash and yes I beat down a path to the restroom! I have been in the class for 10 weeks struggling for some sort of understanding about so many things working together.

So busy trying to memorize so many things and understand what they do and waiting…waiting for it to come, and then about a week or so ago it started to sink in just in time to prove I understood it all. Great! (Sarcasm here.) Why couldn’t this have happened sooner? Kinesiology will probably be my most difficult class…no doubt…and possibly the most important one for me. So I am appreciating Instructor Paul’s patience this morning. I keep thinking am I really done with that class? Did I really survive it? Yes. But I imagine that somewhere Paul is thinking the same thing…

Now Massage Upper with Kitty, that class could go on forever and I would be happy. Down the hall in what we call Womb “D” the intention and birth of understanding coming from that room is beautiful. Learning there is unmistakable, even though it shows itself for everyone in different ways. I have made a lifelong friend while in that room. We jokingly call each other “twin” but now as I think of it all, it makes sense, our delivery into that room was perfectly timed.

So this morning I was in my garden looking at all the little red onions popping up, asparagus shoots, and flowers and I was thinking to myself, we students are a garden, first term we were watered well, this term we sprouted, and now we will draw in the sun for awhile during break. Soon our gardeners will be back to tend to the seeds they have planted and the beautiful plants which have emerged. My thanks to Gay, Kitty and Paul and OSM.

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