Busy life!

September has flown by and has been slinghtly boring. Project Search started and that was the biggest highlight. I am really enjoying the program so far and loving getting to know the people in my clas and the people in the departments I work in. For the first internship rotation started on Monday. I am splitting my time up between two different departments IT and the Oncology Front Office. :) :) Go to my blog www.projectsearch.blogspot.com for more infoMy computer crashed last week so I have been spening lots of time getting my computer back to prime working order. I lost all my documents and itunes music. I was lucky with the documents because I had everyhing but my itunes was awhole different story. What a pain!The past couple weekends have been busy... October is busier though. Labor Day I spend the weekend at Matt's house in Wellsley and we went into Boston to take a walk on the waterfront. The weekend of the 11th there was a break in my busy social life because I had a Milford Cabinet Article. Last weekend Matt and I went apple picking on Saturday during the day then we went to NEC to go see As You Like It. The show was great! <3 my NEC theatre friends. Sunday we went to the Currier Musuem of Art with Sonya which was fun, After the musuem we took a walk in Downtown Manchester which was nice. Last night we went to the SHS football which the Sabers won 36-15. WOO HOO! 4-0! :) Yesterday I went to the gym in the morning and then Heather came over and we cooked her a nice dinner for her birthday. After that we hung out and watched The Ring which I wasn't ultimately crazy about it.

TTYLJanine
Upcoming Events NEC Alumni Weekend, Milford Pumpkin Fest, Warner Fall Foliage Fest. Ithaca Family Weekend

Next Update 10/11

Sports Scores 9/18-25

Saturday scores added on Sunday 9-26 at noon

High Schools

SHS

Football 9/17 W Goffstown 41- 27 9/24 W vs HollisBrookline 36-15

Girls Soccer 9-21 vs Nashua South W 3-2 9-24 vs Con-Val w 5-1Boys Soccer 9-21 vs HB T 3-3 (OT) 9-24 vs Con-Val W 2-1

Field Hockey 9/17 vs Portsmouth T 2-2 9-24 vs St Thomas W 2-1

Pentucket Regional

Field Hockey T -0-0 9-21 W 2-0 vs Mascoment

Proctor Academy (Andover NH)

Boys Soccer vs Lawerence Academy L 2-0 9-26 vs Hebron Mr L 3-0

Burlington

Football vs Stoneham W 42-0

Colleges

UNH

Football 9- 18 vs URI L 28-25 9-26 vs Lehigh W 31-20

Volleyball 9-17 vs Dartmouth W 3-0

Field Hockey 9-26 vs CMU W 4-1

NEC

Womens Soccer vs Nichols L 3-0 9-21 vs Regis W 8-1 9-26 vs Anna Maria W 6-2

Mens Soccer 9-22 vs Regis W 6-2 9-26 vs Anna Maria W 2-0Field Hockey vs Thomas 6-0 9-21 vs Plymouth St L 5-3

Plymouth State

Volleyball St Joe's Conn W 3-0 Western Con St W 3-2 9-21 vs River L 3-0 9-26 vs UMASS Dartmouth W 3-0

Football W 17-0 vs Bridgewater St 9-26 UMASS Dartmouth w 33-9

Mens Soccer vs Keene L OT 3-2 Keene State Womens Soccer 9-22 vs Clark W 2-0 9-26 Eastern Conn and St Mike's W 3-0Field Hockey vs Framingham State W 3-1 9-22 vs Trinity W 2-1 9-26 vs Stonehill L 4-0

Volleyball Vs RI College W 3-1 vs Westfield St W 3-0Mens Soccer 9-26 W 2-1

Babson

Women's Soccer T 0-0 vs Wellsely 9-26 W vs Smith W 2-0

Mens Soccer W 3-0 9-22 vs Framingham St W OT 2-0 9-26 W vs Brandeis 2 OT 2-1

Field Hockey 9-21 vs Bridgewater St W 3-2

Volleyball 9-26 Salem State W 3-0 WNEC W 3-2

Tennis 9-26 vs Springfield W W 6-3

Wellsley

9/22Field Hockey vs Wesleyan L- 1-0 9-26 vs Mt Holyoke W 2-1

W Soccer vs Bates L 4-2Volleyball vs Springfield W 3-1

Ithaca

Vollleyball W vs Johnson and Wales 3-0

Daniel Webster

9-22 Field Hockey W 1-0 9-26

Mens Soccer vs Lesley L 3-0

Volleyball St Joe's Me W 3-0ST AS 9-22 Volleyball L vs SNHU 3-19-26 Field Hockey vs Stonehill L 4-0

AIC

Volleyball vs Stonehill W 3- 0 vs NY TECH W 3-1

Football vs Stonehill W 14-129-22 M Soccer vs CW POST W 2 OT 3-2

Please note With the exception of NEC , Plymouth State, Ithaca AIC, Babson, Souhegan Pentucket Regional and Proctor Academy I don't necessily follow specific schools because of people I know that go to the school. For the most part I follow a bunch of different local colleges and high schools just for the sake of variety.

1st week of rotation one in review

Aside from initial job placement stress the first week of the first internship rotation of Project Seach went well. I am very excited for the weeks to come. I am splitting my time up between two different departments, IT on Tuesdays and Thursdays in the mornings and the Oncolgy Center front office on Monday Wednesday and Friday and Tues and Thursday afternoons. In the IT department I do data entry work and make sure that databases about the computer systems through out the hospital are up to date as well as get the mail. In the Oncology Center front office I do filing and also take the mail to the mail room and pick up the incoming mail and distribute it in the different doctor's mailboxes. The people in both departments are very nice. It's going to be a fun and busy ten weeks. Very well worth it. :)

Thinking aheas the the next rotation I already have a definite of my first choice for an internship site and that would be Marketing. It didn't pan out this time around because there wasn't enough work to do. If those don't end up working out my back up choices are either staying in the departments I'm in currently or working ih the Breast Center or at the Front Desk.

The snafu has passed

Okay so you're all probably wondering what I meant by a snafu in the process of finding an internship in my last entry Let me elaborate

I had an interview last week in the Pharmacy for the first round of internship. Based on the interview I thought it would work out fairly well. Part of my disability is a vision impairment and one thing I struggled with when I worked at Target last year was lining things up on the shelves neatly. My strengths mostly lie in data entry and computer work so I worked hard with the job trainers to find something else to do since I figured there might be a possibility the Pharmacy would not work out well for me. I am going to spliting up my first rotation between the Oncology Center Front Desk and the IT department doing data entry. I am excited and slightly less stresed because I didn't think I would find anything.

I look very foward to Monday and Tuesday.

A new blog for a new direction

Hello
My name is Janine Leffler. I am 25 years old and live in NH. I am currently involved in a job training program for young adults with disabilities called Project Search at St Joseph's Hospital in Nashua NH. The goal of this blog is to educate people about the program based on my experience and hopefullly get people interested in enrolling for next year.

I have been in Project Search for two weeks which has mainly consisted of orientatrion and getting acquainted with the layout of the hospital. We filled out surveys of interest in regards to what areas in the hospital we'd most like to work in. I have run into a small snafu with my job placement but I am working that out over the course of the next couple days. My main goal for being part of this program is to get full time work so I can move out and live on my own with in the next year. I also hope to get more public relations experience to add to ever growing resume. I think it is important for me to get public relations experience in other areas besides theatre because it will give me new insight to how a different professiom does public relations work.


I will update this blog as often as I can given my current computer isssues. I recently got a virus on my computer but hope to get that fixed soon

Thanks for following this blog!

Janine

Starting over fresh

Since my birthday I have been thinking a lot about how I want to change my life. Last year was most definitley a transitional year for me in a lot of ways but now I think I am at point where I can start over fresh. Here is how this year will be different from last

• Job Stress: My job training program at St Joe's Hospital Project Search started on the 31st. After the first two weeks I can honestly say I am going to enjoy it though the worksheets we have been doing have been a bit tedious. The main goal of the program is that particiapants will be placed in a full time jobs at either St Joe's or another hospital or healthcare facility in Nashua. This week my process for interviews for internship rotations started off rough. I have an interview in the Pharmacy on Monday and yesterday I met with the supervisior in Medical Records and they may have a position for me there too. By this time next I am hoping to have a full time job and living in either Nashua, Concord or Portsmouth.
• Barn Playhouse Depression: My biggest struggle last year was overcoming the obstacle of my depression related to the theatre I interned at three years ago the New London Barn Playhouse. In regards to that two main things I had issues with was emotional attachments to the experieence I had there (rollled into that is having issues accepting that the Barn was changing as a whole) and anxiety related to drifiting apart from the people I interned with at the Barn. I had an idea that I was going to be forgotten about and anxiety that people were going to hate me from not being able to move on from the Barn. Nobody hates me or has forgotten about me.(No, not even Will Porter who I thought hated me for the longest time) People have just moved on. I am not less liked by people because it took me so long to move on for the Barn. I am actually a stronger person for having gone through this situation. I understand fully that people were frusturated with me and I don't blame them at all. If the roles were reversed I would feel the same way. I realized recently that my biggest issue was moving on and I was unhappy for the longest time because I was still stuck in the past. Working at the Barn was a great experience that's for certain and I will always remember the good time I had there but it was 4 months out my summer and four months out of all of theirs. We will all share those fond memories. People have gone their seperate ways and I have actually lost touch with a majority of the people I worked with at the Barn. They all knew I was struggling with stuff related to the Barn and I hope they all eventually realize that I am doing better.
• Offstage Drama: Another significant thing I dealt with last year was stress related to drama between my group of friends at NEC. There really that much of a group anymore and that makes me sad. I beleive it is best not to dwell on this too much because it makes me frusturated to say the least. The fall out started the winter of 2009 and slowly started to get worse as that school year went along. I mostly heard the info second hand from my friends that were still at the school and was for the most part out of the loop. In the long run I feel this was beneficial because it kept my more focussed on my own life and not getting so wrapped up in trying to fix other people's problems. While I sometimes get a little sad about the split of our group I am happy that I haven't lost tough with the main people I was close to (Erin,Stacey, Cooper,Jon,James, Laura, Leanna Rae, Moriah and my boyfriend of two years Matt) Keep those who make you happy close and eliminate those who cause tension. That's the main thing I took away from this situation
• Blogging Practices: I have had a livejournal ever since I was a freshmen at NEC. I used that as main outlet to keep in touch with my friends from high school before facebook was created. Since Facebook was created I use that as a main outlet to keep in touch people and use livejournal and this blog as a secondary way to keep in touch with people. A majority of my friends from high school who have livejournals either no longer update them because they have moved on to other blogging sites or just totally deleted it all together. At this point I mainly use lj to keep in touch with a few friends from college who update their journals every once in awhile but other than that I have mostly outgrown LJ and feel it is mostly for high schoolers. I have been crossposting most of the entries from my lj into this blog with the hopes of eventually making the full transition over to blogspot and eliminating livejournal completely due to lack of purpose in keeping it updated.
• Writing: As far as my writing is concerned I have been working on compiling an anthology of poetry and short stories that I have written since my freshmen year at NEC to the present. This has been a work in progress for two years and I am hoping to complete it in January or February. Christmas was my ultimate goal but work pretty much consumes me and I am pretty busy every weekend so I have little to no time to work on it. I have been writing a lot of fan fiction which has been a new experience. I am also going to be collaborating on writing a play with my mother based on her Children's book Princess K.I.M . And The Lie That Grew. This is going to be a fun project and we are working with people at Riverbend School of Theatre Arts to get it performed there in 2012. Very excited about this!
  
  
  
  New Years may not be til January but for me the New Year starts now. New Experiences. New Friends. New Beginnings. New Lease on Life.

Transitions

Well another birthday has come and gone.

As I reflect on my 25th birthday I see my 24th year as a year of transition. It has been a year of much emotional struggle for me but I am a better and stronger person for all the hard times I have been through.. I am blessed to be supported by a loving family great friends and an amazing boyfriend.The first transition was the issue I was having with all the drama with my NEC friends. What I have taken away from this situation is that people are not always what they seem to be and you never truly know what goes on between people when you're away from them. You wish you could fix things but ultimately you can't. That is honestly how I felt when all the drama first started to happen. I felt torn because I wanted to help people but not get so involved because I wanted distance myself from other people's problems as much as possible. As an end result.. as most of you who read this livejournal know paths have diverged and some people are no longer friends with each other. I sometimes wish I could go back and figure out what caused so much tension between people . infomation that I would discover way after the fact once signifcant damage had been done. Hopefully people can reconcile with each other but at this point I wonder if it's too late to hope for that.The second this is sligthly more recent. My sister left for college on Monday. That transition is still fresh. I know I will still talk to her on the phone and through skype but it won't be the same as having her at home every day. I am also going to really miss her friends and their prescence in my house. They've become almost like extenstions of my family and it's going to feel weird with not seeing them so often. They are spreading their wings and moving to different places and I am excited to find out where their paths from Amherst will lead them.The 3rd transiton..is really still in the process of transition. This transition is looking for a job. Largely I habe been out of work for two years though I have had lots of temporary jobs..not substanial enough pay to pay back my loans form NEC which has been a pain. I have a freelance job with the Milford Cabinet but that only pays $50.00 an artcile which amounts to $50.00-$100 a month depending on if I write one or two articles in a one month period. This summer I have been working at the Boys anf Girls Club of Greater Nashua doing clerical work. Combining these skills together with the skills from my job and my volunteer job at the Chamber of Commerce which ended on Augut 2nd I think I will have great experience that will help me to succeed in future positions. I had Project Search orientation on the 17th and I am both anxious and excited about this new endeavor. I can't wait til Tuesday New people. New experiences. All very exciting.
The final transition is of course my Barn Playhouse depression. This has taught a lot about friendship and how being obsessed about things can really not be a good thing. I was so wrapped up in being paranoid about the Barn Playhouse and wanting to fix things I couldn't control that I didn't really realize how it would have a long term effect on my relationships with people from my group at the Barn Playhouse. I mean I wasn't really close to half the people in the group anyway but despite level of closeness we were still a tight knit group of people. I thought that people would hate me because of the way I was acting about the Barn and it toook me FOREVER to realize that that was never the case. Looking back over old emails I kept from Caroline Kittrell and Maggie Politi I realized that I was being foolish. The biggest wake up call was when Maggie Politi emailed my mother in April about how her and the rest the people were concerned about me. I hope she realized how much that email meant to me because it helped me to believe something I had trouble trusting mostly because I was clouded by doubt that Will Porter hated me. Memories are not forgotten but that summer was four months out of my life and four months out of all of theirs. A mere stepping stone in all of their acting careers and I am honestly amazed at where people have ended up since we left. Broadway,national tours and quite a few people have worked at Summer Theatre in Meredith Village or other summer stock theatre in New England. All my friends from Amherst and NEC have put up tirelessly with my spazzy emails and freaking out about stuff related to the Barn and I appreciate all of them putting up with me. Now that this transition has fully passed. My summer at the Barn will now simply be in memories and the memories of that summer are quite lovely. From now on though In the past they will stay.. they should have remained in the past the second I left the Barn. I think I would have been a lot better off emotionally that way and I would have had to put myself through a lot less anxiety being able to trust that people hadn't forgotten about me or memories we had that summer.
25th year Onward and upwards to bigger and better things. Can't wait for what this year will hold

Moving on to the next phase

It's August already... wow this summer has sure flown by. 18 days til NY and 29 days til Project Search starts. I am currently at work at the Chamber of Commerce waiting for the assignment of my next task..figured i'd update while I had a little downtime.

This summer has been so busy. I've been mostly occupied with my job at Chamber and my job at the Boys and Girls Club. Last weekend was my mom's bday. We went to see Pursuit of Happiness at Milford Area Players on Saturday night. The play was really good. Sunday night we went to dinner at a Mexican resturant in Manchester. Typically I do not like Mexican food but this resturant was particuarly good. This weekend I went to the movies with Matt on Friday night. We saw GrownUps which was a fairly decent movie. I'm a realtively big fan of any movie with Adam Sandler in it. Saturday Matt Sonya and I spent the day in Meredith. We first went bowling at Funspot.. one of my lowest scoring games ever then we did some window shopping in Mill's Falls Marketplace and met Nancy Barry, John Baker and Brandon Santoro at Town Docks for dinner. A realtively inexpensive alternative to Gisueppe's where we usually eat. Then we went to see Chicago at Summer Theatre in Meredith Village. Maggie Politi Matt Rickard and Christina Giordano were both in the show it was really great to see them again. All signs point to my Theatre is My Life blog for a review of the show.

I am excited about Project Search starting. I have been growing frusturated with finding a job and I am hoping the skills I gain from this program will help me to get a full time job. My goal is to move out of my house by next year and move to Nashua or Concord. Of course it depends where I find a job.