Of Keystone Dental Seminar and Second year first semester.

Howdy good folks?!
     Its been a short while since I posted something here. Short while? Right!
Anyhow I hope everyone has been doing great and thanks for stopping by.
Finally made it out of second semester of hygiene school alive....kidding! Its not that bad. The oral pathology 2 was over yesterday and same for Dental pharmacology. I promise you I had fun with Dental Pharm! Same can't be said of the Oral Pathology.  But I ended up doing better in Pathology than Pharm. Happens all the time.

Last week I had a chance to attend the Pennsylvania Dental Hygiene Association Keystone Dental conference. This was held in Lancaster, PA. The 5 hour drive was no fun but the event was. I had a chance to meet a number of people who are followers of this blog. I had the chance to meet one of my mentors in this field. It was first time meeting her in person .I'm talking about Speaker and writer  Jasmin Harley. The owner of 'Beyond the Prophy LLC and another podcast called MOMgienist. You can follow and listen to the very informative podcast  here and you can check out the Beyond the prophy here. She had a talk to present so we didn't have a lot of time to talk but we had time for a quick chat and a photo.

Bottom Left,Jasmin, Kelly and I

 I didn't present my project as it was not among the top 3 that were to present from our school. Kelly and I manned the sales desk and we sold a number of things. I think Kelly is in the wrong profession. Why!Anyone who made a mistake of stopping by our sales table ended up buying something. Now, anyone who can sell candy and chocolate to Hygienists and other dental professionals can sell anything! Way to go Kells! You know with such a a talent you don't have to be trapped in the dental operatory.

Kelly and I repsentin'

 My other classmates rocked the table clinic presentations. Maria with her fluoride project, Nikki and Ashante with Electronic Cigarettes and Sara, Catherine and Laurel with their project on Hypophosphatasia

 

Nikki and Ashante rocking!

 

Maria was ready!

Catherine,Sara and Laurel were all set.

In the evening I  attending the talk hosted by the nationally acclaimed motivational speaker Linda Larsen. Very inspiring talk on "Staying the Right Side up -When everything's Upside Down". By the time for the "Get your Glow on Party" at 7PM all my classmates and left  and was already tired. I went out to see Lancaster Night life and the first Irish pub I stopped right next to where the conference was held, the first thing I saw was "Kenyan Food and Music". At first I thought someone was playing a very bad plank but on getting inside I was in for a surprise. Kids from  Kenya were performing and singing. Most of these kids are orphans and come from very poor single parent families and live in a group home called Maisha.This is Swahili word which means life. I ended up meeting a lot of people from Kenya and had a great evening of food, great talk and some great dancing to traditional Kenyan music. A lot of people from Lancaster came out to support the kids. The event was dubbed a Night fro Africa and I bought a T-shirt to show my support. You can check out their website here  and support them if you can.

 The Maisha Kids

Special thanks to our program director Mrs Dana Shaffer for working tirelessly to make the event happen and for being there with us all though to make it sure everything went on as planned. Also shout out to Kelsey and Kailee from our sister school-Fortis Scranton for being faithful followers of the blog and for finally meeting you in person! We forgot to take a picture but next time...there will be many pics!
Let me enjoy my one day break before getting back to start second semester tomorrow.
6 more months to go till done with the program! Let the count down begin.