Chapter 10: The Internship

Nina

“Well? What’s your assignment?” Jessica asked.

“Um… sports medicine,” I replied, handing the phone back.

Jessica looked confused. “I thought you wanted-”

“Surgery, yeah,” I said, grabbing my bag and heading for the door with Jessica on my heels. First thing in the morning, I would go to the dean of the medical school and ask for a reassignment.

“And why do you want to be reassigned?” the dean asked as I stood in front of her desk the next day. She was a curly-haired woman with glasses and a hard face.

I swallowed and tried to calm my

nerves. “It’s just… not the direction I was hoping to take,” I replied. “I don’t

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like sports medicine.”

“You can’t just ask to be reassigned because you don’t like the internship,” the dean said. “And besides, you haven’t even tried it yet. How do you know you won’t like it?”

assignment, and there was no way I could explain the real situation to the

have seen my pained expression, because she sighed and pulled out a form. “Just go to the first few sessions,” she said as she

seeing as how they were the most likely sports team to be injured, but at least I could get out after that. Not to mention that sports

and I exited her office.

she asked. “What did she

“She wants me to try it

cafeteria for lunch. ” I know it’s not exactly what you wanted, but look at it this way: at least

sounded

elbow. “How could you not be excited

I wanted to tell her that I

I wondered if he had something

Jessica and I went home. Lori was sitting on the floor of the living room with a stained

shirt and running over to open

Chapter 10. The Internship

you’re high all the time

but laugh at my

to go and meet my internship mentor for the first time. She sent me an email with her office information; it was located in between the soccer field and the hockey arena. It was chilly out and getting

the door. I opened it and poked my head in to see a pretty woman with wavy brown hair sitting at a desk. She looked up and flashed me a

greet me. Much to my surprise, she hugged

sweaty, whiny athletes all day. In fact, even though she was middle-aged, her bubbly personality made her

finally pulled away from hugging me. I’m so happy to see another young woman working in sports medicine! We don’t usually get female students in here, so it’s always nice to know that there are other women who are passionate about

my feet, unsure of whether I should tell Tiffany that I actually didn’t want this internship or if I should just let her be

expression, though, because she looked at me with concern on her face. “Are you alright? You seem depressed. You

up with my response. For some reason, I felt comfortable being candid with Tiffany even though I was

this, but… I was actually hoping for a

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