Hello all, long time no chat.  For those that didn't know I am in my senior year at Morehead State University and am doing my practicum (work study) at the local nursing home.  It was supposed to be at the VA, but that did not work out.  Talk about blessings in disguise.  The VA would have been group counseling that I really could only observe.  The nursing home is a lot of one on one interaction and I am learning a lot more about social work as a whole.  My biggest fear starting out was how would I interact with the residents.  Now it is paperwork.  Compared to that the residents are cake!  I'm at a loss sometimes because in conversations with both residents and staff they freely express their beliefs (religious, political, etc) but I just don't feel that my beliefs and opinions would be welcomed, but I really can't just put that on the facility, because that applies to everyone and everything down here.  Anyway, it is a great site and the people there are just wonderful, and they have already approached me with considerations of me staying on there after graduation.  I'm excited about that opportunity because then I have the chance to get more experience and make some moola while I work toward my Masters.  Really the thing that has me worried and stressed right now isn't my practicum site but my 2 research papers and my 30 page agency paper...