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Today we leave for my grama's surprise 80th birthday party. I'm not too worried about ruining the surprise by posting this on the net - let's just say that I had to explain to my grama how to move between two windows on a computer. It was about at that point that she gave up completely!
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Since I just finished posting all the photos from my trip to visit my family in South Asia, this youtube video is fitting, and also SO funny. It's "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" like you've never seen before!
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Speaking of funny Indian music videos, this is a hit song from Punjabi singer Daler Mendi that my friends and I found during college and I still find absolutely hysterical. The hand motions just kill me.
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On my theology blog I've been talking a lot about Catholicism and now also Eastern Orthodoxy. This week I heard about a family that moved from the conservative Evangelical world of Moody (my alma mater) to Eastern Orthodoxy. All of these thoughts are driven by conversions of friends and family and what I see as the longing of evangelicals for the sacred. Last week it drove me to go back and review my history of the Protestant Reformation to remind myself what the actual issues were in the Protestant/Catholic split.
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On Wednesday night my dear husband got two hours of sleep. Poor guy! He wrote three papers in a row. The past couple of weeks have been pretty draining for him academically, and he's had several very late nights. It's a good thing he's passionate about church history and has a clear vision for what he's called to do with his life, because the stress of a four-year ThM degree certainly pushes you to wonder if you really want to finish the program!
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Have you seen the hilarious video of the cat and the faucet? I LOVE love love this video:
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Last weekend Isaac and I went out for a movie and dinner (free tickets, woohoo!), and watched Nine. It is really well-illustrated and the music rocks (literally). We both felt like it was a good movie, but it had potential to be an awesome movie and fell short. It was a little like a graphic novel - filled will powerful images and dramatic statements, but never taking it to the depth of metaphor that could be there. Yeah, it was somewhat shallow, but still interesting.
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Friday morning and I'm adding one more! The New York Times posted a fantastic article this morning about a group of newly-arrived Bhutanese refugees and how they are adjusting to live in a big American city. The Bhutanese are a small and new refugee group, much like the Kareni people are. Tee Reh and Soh Meh, the refugees we meet with weekly, fit the description of the Bhutanese in the story.
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Really, Kac? 3 minutes of a cat drinking water off of his nose? I watched the whole thing, thinking there was going to be something great at the end...=( But I do remember the Indian music video, I think the best part was watching you laugh at it!
ReplyDeleteWhat? NO appreciation for how hilarious that is, you dog-lover you. Everyone I've shown it to has laughed and actually sent it to other people! It cracks me up again every time - cats hate water!
ReplyDelete9 used to be a short film. I can see how. When they made it feature, they should've added more than action sequences. 9 actually had the tenacity to DEPRESS me at the end, lol. I guess I sympathized with the characters enough to hate that they were given an agnostic, hopeless ending and told to be happy about it. I would not want their fate.
ReplyDeleteYep, I totally agree with that, Jaimie. I had hope until the end and maybe it's just the judeo-Christian ideals in us, but Isaac and I were really hoping for this bodily resurrection instead of souls being sucked away to somewhere or nowhere. Booo.
ReplyDeleteN and I saw Nine the day it opened. N wanted to see it because of the music. I agree with mostly what you said, except the part about hope. kind of. I thought the green stuff in the raindrops at the end was like - the souls became single-cell organism that would grow into humans someday. So there was hope for humans - but the little stuffed guys were screwed. No hope for them. I didn't like it, but I didn't dislike it. ~ L
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ReplyDeleteI do indeed have an idea of what agencies look for when they hire case managers!
The case manager position is a unique one because there isn't really a therapy/clinical component to it. Case managers can make referrals, but a case manager in the resettlement period (90 days after DOA) and the adjustment period (91 days-3 years after DOA) are mostly concerned with "logistical" issues....that is, picking refugees up at the airport, getting them their food stamps and medical card, assisting them with problems in their apartment, short-term crisis intervention, orienting them to the American system etc. If you are interested in working with refugee children as a case manager helping children get into the school system, there is more of a clinical component to that for sure.
For refugees, the case manager is often "managing" their clients' lives. For this reason, agencies are looking for someone who can truly handle this "managing" while maintaining an empathetic balance. It's an extremely administrative role, so the ability to bang out paperwork is huge!!! You must be organized and able to multi-task. Job experience in some kind of management or administrative position is a big one here. For the empathetic piece, anyone who speaks a foreign language (multi-lingualism is one of the biggest factors these days), has lived in another country, or is a foreigner themselves is going to stand out in a pool of applicants because they understand what it is like psychologically to make the transition from one country to another (you are an MK, no? This will be a huge selling point.)
As far as the degree is concerned, I would have to suggest an MSW if you are thinking about case management. There is much more preparation for the bureaucracy of social services in an MSW program. I think with an MA in counseling or psychology, you would miss this...though of course you would have a broader "clinical" background. If you are interested in doing therapy itself, then of course the MA is the better choice. I may be biased, but I think an MSW would give you a broader base for work with refugees and that an MSW would be more marketable. If you are still in Dallas, the University of North Texas has a good program, though it is a bit of a drive!
Good luck! If you have more questions you can email me at sarahgatti@gmail.com.
I love3d the videos, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and the cat. hahahaha
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