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Highlights of Eurovision

There is Azerbaijan with my new OTP

There is Greece with the free alcohol

You got Iceland with Thor 

Romania with the Dracula and half naked men

And of course Malta with the very happy man

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This is my personal blog

I will continue to post and browse and be active on this blog.
I have created a separate Tumblr account that will focus solely on my social work-related thoughts (and you can read the bio for more info)

http://socialworkmusings.tumblr.com/

As well as a separate twitter from my personal account:
@Savonna_Stender

 I thought about not making a separate tumblr account because I’d still like to chronicle my journey to an MSW considering it is a part of my personal life and will soon consume all of my life.  I’ll continue to do that, but the other tumblr is strictly for social work so I may have other personal musings specifically for sw and it also makes it easier for me to follow blogs with sw-related stuffs so I know what I’m reading and looking at when I log into that account.  Same with Twitter.

Feel  free to add that tumblr and twitter if you have it.

I’ve realized how much I enjoy blogging and that I want to make social media an interconnected tool in my social work—plenty of online social work sites want you to have specific social media geared towards the content they’re already providing to see if you’re a good fit as an intern or guest writer so I’m going to begin building that resume of mine over the next couple of years via these 2 new accounts.  J

Wow, been a minute since I was on Tumblr.  Well, it’s probably only been about 2 weeks (if that) but I’m used to browsing and seeing what others are up to and consuming my daily dose of new knowledge on a consistent basis.

A lot has happened in the last week.  I went back home to San Jose for my Title IV-E stipend interview which was May 14^th.  First, it was really great to get away from my stressful week at work and just be with family and friends.  It’s been 2 years since I’ve been back to San Jose (though I’ve been down to San Diego twice in that time).  Everything felt great.  Of course I wish I could have had my partner there with me, but the away time was still peaceful.

Then there’s my sister… we haven’t spoken in over 2 years for a good reason but it was awkward seeing her.  We would have both been content just not speaking to each other but my Mom made it a point to have her come over to say hi to me.  In my family, we kiss each other… it’s a part of the greeting.  So I had a split-second to think about it and decided I might as well because it wasn’t a commitment to being social with her again, just continuing civility.  She hugs, I go to kiss, she turns her face away.  Well, we know how that all is then lol  We otherwise were around each other with peace over the Mother’s Day weekend.

Besides all of that here came the interview.  There was a written portion and then an oral portion with a panel of 3 was nothing of a surprise because I’d been told this.  The written portion went fine and the oral interview was with a panel of senior social workers in various public service agencies, so really they are those who are in the same game I would be working in after my MSW if I was awarded the stipend.

Let’s jump forward.  I got a call while I was on the plane back to Salt Lake (the day after the interview).  I couldn’t call them back until Friday because I went to work as soon as I got off the plane and stepped right back in to a mess of case management and multiple crises.

I call the coordinator back and I GOT THE STIPEND!!  I thought I might cry right there on the phone.  This was that last piece of the puzzle and now I’m taken care of and so excited to just begin.  It feel even better that not even a full day after my interview they were ready to just offer me the stipend.  I’m glad I made such a good impression through my writing and to the panel.

Here I come graduate school!