So Frustrating!

So this really doesn’t have anything to do with my adventure in Nicaragua but it does have to do with things that happened to me in Nicaragua. So on Wednesday, February 1^st I got an email from one of the schools I had applied to saying that my application was not complete yet and that if I did not send in a reference form that I would not be considered for the program. I contacted all my references and found out that my former supervisor at Covenant House had not sent in my recommendation, had not even written it yet. His excuse was that he has been really busy, and that he thought that the other school was my first choice. I informed him that he was wrong and that the reference was due a week ago and that I really needed him to complete it asap!

I then got in contact with the school and was informed that if my reference did not get his shit together and send the recommendation letter by fax by the end of the week I would not be considered priority and may not have my application considered for the MSW program this year. After I got this information I then tried to call my supervisor again but he was in a meeting and then left for dinner. I left a note with my coworkers to give to my supervisor and then left a message on his answering machine. At this point in the afternoon the place where I was using wifi was closing and I had to leave. That ended the possibility for me to try and contact him again that evening. I had to wait and hope that he would send the letter. I plan on trying to contact him again this afternoon.

When I got home to the place I am staying I ranted to one of the guys that live here in Spanish about all my frustrations. It was not as easy to vent angrily in Spanish as it is in English. And I even went back and forth from Spanish to English a couple of times. Ugg! I was so frustrated!

So I have been having digestive trouble and about every night I wake up at about 4am and have to go to the bathroom because I have intense intestinal pain. Well after I got up this morning I could not get back to bed after I got up because I was thinking about the letter and my supervisor and getting into school. So I took a look at the recommendation form I had given my supervisor, and clearly at the bottom of the recommendation form it says that it needs to be postmarked by 1/27/12. This really got me mad and hence why I am writing this now.

I am sorry to anyone who did not want to read about my frustrations, but writing is my form of venting and getting things out of my system. 

I found out this morning that my supervisor did end up sending the letter of recommendation by fax last night. Thank God! Now I still have a chance of getting into the program.