Sophomore Futures

    Looking around high school for something else I could join, I opted for the Future Nurses as it was the closest match to my aspirations of medical school at the time. The school nurse was in charge, and in looking at the yearbook now, I see that there were officers – president, treasurer, etc. But the only thing I remember about Future Nurses is that at the first meeting of the school year, the school nurse asked how many of us were sixteen years old – because that was the minimum age we could be for candy-stripers or other hospital volunteers. Getting to learn skills and volunteering at a hospital sounded very exciting, but I was a month shy of my fifteenth birthday!

     There were probably other options for the members of Future Nurses, but I don't recall any – I just felt disappointment that I could not be a candy-striper that year. Someone with more ambition would have researched on her own what else a 15 year old could do but that someone was not me.

     The picture in the yearbook of the Future Nurses has me right there in the second row. But I am not sure if I ever went to any more than that first meeting, and after sophomore year, when I finally turned sixteen, my class schedule was so full that I chose not to continue with the Future Nurses deciding that studying would be better than trying to get transportation to and from candy-striper venues.

       My extracurriculars were not looking too good.

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