Blog #5

Finally, My Wedding!

            Well, we made it through the wedding and the only time my nerves started to get the best of me was when we had to walk outside to get on the quite small airplane taking us into Key West. Everything went smooth overall; we arrived in Key West Saturday evening around seven and were married the following day at one o’clock. The weather was perfect; the sun was shining with very few clouds in the sky and it was the only day of the week where the humidity wasn’t overbearing.  Our timing couldn’t have turned out any more beautiful. After the ceremony and pictures, everyone went out to eat at an awesome, Italian restaurant called Abbondanzas. Early Monday afternoon a few of us went parasailing. That was kind of an adrenaline rush, but very worth our money; the scenery was gorgeous and the water looked the perfect blue color from 400 feet in the air. That same evening, twelve of us went on a twenty-six mile jet-ski tour around the island. As we came around to Mallory Square, we stopped to enjoy the dolphins that were swimming so gracefully throughout all of our jet-skis. That experience was so amazing, even though we couldn’t touch the dolphins, just being out in the ocean, in their natural habitat with them just topped my vacation and I’d only been there for two days! On Wednesday, six of us went out snorkeling. That was my first experience swimming out in the open ocean. Seeing all of the colorful schools of fish and barracuda was definitely an eyeful, but being stung by twice by a jellyfish wasn’t as enjoyable. After we were back on the boat, ready to head in, we were lucky enough to witness more dolphins. They came right past our boat with a baby leading the way; it was so cute.  In between all of the big adventures, we did a lot of shopped, swam, ate, played cards and soaked up the rays by the pool. This has, by far, been my best vacation ever and I am so ready to return!

My Research Blog: Dental Assisting

           

          My research paper will be filled with information on my future career, dental assisting. Some of the topics that I am including in my paper are the job outlook, salary, job duties, and the technology in the field. I’m not really sure what it was that sparked my interest to enter the dental field because, personally, I hate going to the dentist. There is not one thing that I like about dentist appointments, but it seems like the lady helping the dentist or hygienist always do a good job of making the setting a little more comfortable. As an assistant, that is part of their job, along with prepping the patient, handing the dentists instruments and materials, sterilizing and disinfecting instruments and other equipment and many other duties that I will talk about in my paper.

I am starting out with dental assisting to get into the field and see what other options are there that may interest me more. I don’t think I could ever become a hygienist because I wouldn’t be able to handle actually cleaning other’s teeth. Now, I’ve never had braces before, but my siblings and a couple of my friends have, so I’ve been back in the orthodontist rooms. Visiting those orthodontists is what really pulled me into the dental field. Those assistants actually get hands on experience with the patients and their braces. When I went with my siblings to get their bands changed, it was the assistant who did most of the work in the room. The two different dental offices have totally different environments and job duties. After gaining experience as a dental assistant I would love to move to the orthodontics field.