The First day part one

The best place to start a story is the beginning obviously. So for this post I will describe how I got to volunteering at Indiana University Health Arnet Hospital.  It all started in class the day of February 8^th. That was when it really hit me that maybe now was the time to get the service or risk not having enough time to get it all. So I spent the entire class desperately looking for somewhere to volunteer. I tried to look at St. Elizabeth’s but on the volunteer page there was a sign in big red letters telling me that they were not accepting any more volunteers. So I kept looking. Eventually I found the request for volunteers from Arnet. It asked for anyone to go to the main hospital and sign up for the program. So I emailed the person in charge of the program and it was set. For that coming Friday I was to go to the hospital and sign their sets and such. I thought it would be an easy process. However I was wrong.

To get to the hospital was not as easy as I expected. I thought it would be a simple bus ride to get there. However the truth was that getting there was no simple task. It takes three bus rides and a 2 mile walk to get to the hospital from my dorm. On that first day as luck would have it, it started to snow. It was so bad that I did not see the hospital as I was walking until I was less than a quarter of a mile away from it.

The hospital is on top of a very steep hill overlooking the highway. With the fog from the snow I could not see it and thus was surprised when I stumbled into the hospital. I will describe the hospital in the next post.