The last Humanities course for my senior year is called Endurance. In this class, we focused a lot on certain challenges and learned how to endure them. More specifically our own personal challenges and goals. The second unit of this course is called Katabasis. The definition of this word is diving into the underworld, while the hero is in a strange land, while danger surrounds. We learned a lot about journeys that people go through, and how they have endured them. The hope is that their stories and experiences inspire us while we go through the planning of our personal missions. For the action project, the class was assigned to work on our mission for 12 hours. Our mission is whatever we find ourselves passionate about. We just have to put it into action. It was pretty easy to pick my mission because I have already thought about this before. It was just hard actually conducting it. After I got through that though, I had a lot of fun putting this together. It came out a little longer than I expected, because every hour was important to completing my mission. Even the smallest details. I hope you enjoy going through my mission with me!
I want to be a pediatric nurse, so I’m going to be around a lot of children. Sick children. Of course I’m going to make sure that they’re getting the best care physically, but it’s also my mission to make sure that they’re feeling good mentally as well. I want them to feel safe whenever I’m in their presence. I also want to make sure that they’re having a lot of fun. Part of that means I’m going to spend a lot time trying to distract pain. My patience has to be worked on, because right now, it’s not the best. In order to achieve my mission of improving my patience, I am going to be babysitting. My aunt, who is in nursing school right now, is working as a nanny in the moment. She knew a family who was in great need of a babysitter, so I thought this was a perfect opportunity to work on my mission.
