It's the end of my first practical week. Yes, it's only the 1st week, but I felt like I have been doing it for a very long time already. It has been a crazy hectic week for me, with the jams and all. Yesterday the whole of KL was raining heavily. Being smart this time, I told my dad that I don't want to get stuck in the jam and would like to drop by at Willie's to wait. So I hang out with him till 8.30pm. The jam wasn't that bad then already.
Had 3 clients and 1 group already. Thank God that there were easy cases (which I think it's hard due to less exposure) for me to handle. And so thankful that He send people to help me on fulfilling my requirements. Without such people, I won't be able to find a group so quickly as my hospital doesn't conduct group counseling.
My field supervisor is so kind and willing to teach me and supervise me along the way. The truth is, throughout this one week, I found out that whatever I learn in my 3 years of uni. is not applicable at all. Worst still, what my lecturers taught and said is totally different from what I observed and learned from my field supervisor. This makes me feel so inadequate, but I can't help it. It's not like I have no knowledges at all. I have, but it's just so different.
So tell me, what will you do if you were me?
Seriously, I think I spend 3 years of uni. taking courses which are not important and irrelevant to my own major, like my minor and PPIB courses. And after I hear the syllabus of my field supervisor, I feel like a loser. I hardly had any proper counseling practice outside uni. We were always locked down in the uni., having lectures all the time while practical and practice are what really matters for a counseling student to be competent. Looking back, I realise that I don't have any kind of teaching and exposure on conducting a counseling session.
This is such a shame. Thank God my field supervisor is nice.
I hope she won't think that I'm dumb or shallow, for I really don't know.
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