when i grow up..

                When every child was little, if you asked them, “what do you want to be when you grow up?” The main responses were to be a firefighter or a teacher. But not from me, I always wanted to be a nurse, I would play nurse with my sisters and act like they were sick or hurt. I would bandage them with band-aids and wrap them with cloths to look like a cast. I would take temperatures and give them tablespoons of juice to substitute for medicine. I never understood why everyone wanted to be firefighters and teachers. Being a firefighter to me as a child was a very dangerous and scary job. And why would you want to be a teacher? No one ever liked the teachers, especially when it was nap time or u got in trouble for telling Johnny to “shut up”. Shut up was always a “no no” back then. We always got gold stars taken away or we had to sit in time-out for 20 minutes. Nobody liked teachers. I’m pretty sure everyone had a good excuse for their career choice, and I doubt that if you asked them now, that their answers would still be the same. But for me, being a nurse has always been on the top of my to-do list. Not only did I enjoy helping my sisters when they were “sick” but I always loved helping others and telling them what they should do to stay healthy or to get rid of their cold. All this I learned from my dad. He did everything he could to keep his children healthy and away from diseases.