Kavi has headed off to orientation for a new volunteer gig — she’ll be working in Rush Hospital’s Emergency Room. Essentially this is a candy-striper type of thing, and I find it funny because I did almost exactly the same thing when I was 16 at my dad’s hospital.
They’re pretty serious about their volunteer commitment — Kavi had to interview for it, and commit to 50 hours minimum. She’ll be doing Sunday morning shifts from 8-12 from this weekend through the fall.
Hopefully this will help Kavi figure out if she really does want to be pre-med; she’s thinking that right now, and I think she’ll like the patient care aspect, and be good at that, but I’m not sure Kavi understands just how hard she’ll have to work on the academic side — I hear O-Chem is particularly brutal…
Well, we’ll see. For now, she’ll be a smiling, helpful face in the Emergency Room, and that can only be a good thing. 
She’s got her uniform shirt on (girls get pink and boys get red, sigh…), along with new dress pants and comfortable sneakers, per their directions. So professional! Off she goes!
(The hospital is a two-block walk from us, conveniently!)
