My name is Jenny. I was born and raised in Georgia. Since I have been at Berry, I met and got married to my wonderful husband, Ackley, who is a Corporal in the Marine Corps. It has been very hard to be apart from one another with me being in Rome and him being in Jacksonville, NC, but we do make the most of it and see each other every chance we get! He just got back from a 9 month tour in Afghanistan, so I am very thankful that he made it home safe and is back on US soil! We just got a miniature pinscher puppy, and we named her Harley because my dad was in love with motorcycles. She is staying in North Carolina with Ackley to help keep him company while we are apart, and I miss both of them very much. I am a bartender at Bella Roma Grill, and I have been working with Bella Roma for the past 2 years to help pay my way through school.
I am a senior Exercise Science major and Psychology minor. I am applying to graduate schools this semester to hopefully get into either a Doctorate or Masters Degree program for Occupational Therapy. After going to OT school, I want to work primarily with children. I have done 2 internships in the past. The first internship I completed was 2 summers ago at a place in North Carolina called Jacksonville Physical Therapy. This was an orthopedic clinic that I volunteered at for the first half of the summer then got hired as a technician for the second half. After that experience, I realized that maybe physical therapy wasn’t for me…or at least physical therapy with adults wasn’t. It was not hands-on enough and seemed too impersonal as far as the patient-PT relationship goes. My last internship was this past summer at Infinity Children’s Services in Rome. I absolutely loved it! I got to sit in on Speech, Occupational, and Physical therapy sessions with the kids, and by the end, I decided that Occupational Therapy was a better fit for me than PT. To me, OT just had more options on what the therapy activities could consist of and was entertaining for both the patient and the therapist throughout the whole session. At Infinity, the children are primarily part of the special needs population, and it was a great experience to meet and build relationships with the kids.
