As Nelson Mandela said, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” This is my absolute favorite quote. This is because it’s so true and it has made me want to do more with my life. Throughout my life, I have always pushed myself to be better and to become more educated. It started when I was young with sports. It wasn’t good enough that I was a good dancer, so I became a 12-year-old competing in the senior category (16 and up.) For baseball, I was always at the highest level and would go sub for the older girls when they needed help. In curling, I started and within one year I was picked up by a team to train for 4 years for the Winter Games. It was nothing new for me to push myself harder to become …show more content…
I plan to graduate in only a couple months. After this, my goal is to become accepted into this Dental Hygiene Program. It will be a tough three years however I plan to work just as hard as I did with Dental Assisting to become just as successful. Going back to my quote. I do not want to stop my education. Robin McKay Ganshorn has inspired me to go back to school after Dental Hygiene and do night classes to eventually once when I’m ready and would like to leave private practice, become a Saskatchewan polytechnic Dental Instructor for either the future Dental assistants or Dental Hygienist. As I am in no rush to leave private practice I would do this over a span of years as did …show more content…
As I was getting closer to graduation I was unsure of my plans for the future. My sister Kayla was currently working as a dental assistant and going back to school for her first year of Dental Hygiene and I found myself continuously listening to her Dental stories, opening up her textbooks and manuals when she wasn’t watching and being jealous that she was always wearing scrubs. I found myself curious and very interested so I asked if I could shadow her. At that moment was when I found myself extremely interested and decided to apply into Dental Assisting knowing I’d like to apply into Hygiene