Dearest G12 Ohona! Hope all is
well with everybody. I am also quite well. Helping me and helping the
community. Well, just immediate after the first semester in Hawaii, I returned
back to Dhaka and I supposed to go to Western Michigan University for the
second semester.
Though I got
substantial funding for working as a visiting fellow at the Western Michigan
University, but finally I couldn’t make it up due to some of y family issues
including my marriage! Ha ha ha…. However, I finally decided to stay in
Bangladesh (for second semester) in my previous job as a lecturer in
Occupational Therapy. Then, after over seven years of waiting I got married in
March, 22, 2013.
I am still in the same job though
I tried (after APLP, through last year) for three different leadership positions
(coordinator of two projects and Rehabilitation Manager) in my organization. I was not offered for two different posts out
of three as I don’t have any masters’ degree yet. I was offered for a position
(early of this month) called Coordinator for School of Orthotics and
Prosthetics- responsible for leading a new academic program first even in
Bangladesh. But I was not able to accept the offer because I need to stay in
Bangladesh for this job at least one year. Actually, I am planning to do my
masters in September 2014.
I have already applied and got
offered from some universities (mostly UK and few in USA) for doing masters in
Health Planning, Policy and Management/Public Health (except Public
Administration at the University of Hawaii). I am now waiting for the outcome
of my scholarship application, which will come through from time between
May-July. I changed my career plan after
APLP, previously, I was focused on occupational therapy teaching which in now
health management/public health.
By the way, I faced some
difficulties (while applying for my masters programs) using APLP as an academic
certificate qualification. Majority of the universities wanted a transcription
of the program but as you know we don’t have any transcription yet for APLP.
So, later on I used it as just a fellowship. It is just a situation with you
all.
Beside my regular job, I am involving
doing and publishing research. After coming back from Hawaii, three of my researches
have been published. Research is limiting my amusement in many ways. I am
sorry, I supposed to post every week but couldn’t due to my boring research.
However, finally, I hope to see
you all in someday, somewhere !!!
