Dot Da Da Dah! The Begining

The ethnography is interesting in a couple ways. First off, I have been thinking a lot about being a funeral director, which is directly correlated to me being in mortuary science. This project lets me critically analyze the field I am going into. This just recently became important to me because I am also in a Communication Across Cultures class where I am writing a paper dealing with the conflict between FCA (Funeral Consumer Alliance) and the so called funeral industry. The teacher in this class suggest writing the paper from the critical approach in intercultural communication. Making this the perfect way to critically analyze my career and the topic for a paper I am currently writing. Thanks for the help big sis! 

Also, this is a good way for me to be a little part of something I'm not typically inclined to choose. English, writing, literature, and other things along these lines are not really my strong suit but I don't let that discourage me, it just takes the right encouragement to get me started. This is definitely for a good cause; higher education. Not only higher education for one person but for many people. This could bring an interesting angle to a topic that is hardly disgust. 

As for some other information, my answer is ongoing in regards to why I want to be a funeral director. I toss ideas around as to what I want to do with my life. Right now mortuary science looks good but I'm not sure what I will do with my major. I could become a funeral director in Illinois or go back to Indiana, I could continue my education and eventually become a pathologist, and there are a couple other ideas bouncing around. I basically got into mortuary science because I like biology (dealing with body preparations) and psychology (dealing with families). 

The classes that are involved with my major are pretty diverse. I have taken a funeral history class, a funeral psychology class, and now I am in mortuary regulations, microbiology, and anatomy. Some other classes I am looking forward/have to take are embalming and advanced embalming, cosmetics, pathology, an mortuary law/ business.  For the most part my classes are really cool.