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My Occupational Therapy fieldwork was the same as student teaching. We had to do 6 months of full time work, sometimes relocated to a different state, and pay full time tuition for it. It stunk. One of mine was a home health care placement so I had gas and car expenses on top of it! They didn't even pay me mileage. Thankfully, I was living with my (then) future-in-laws free of charge. I was supposed to be 5 minutes from my parents' house for the second one, but it was cancelled two weeks before my placement. I was put in another place where they gave me a free apartment (had to pay phone and groceries only) but we had roaches and one night, a bat got in the apartment. AND, it was on the grounds of the state mental health institution which was also right next to a max security prison. Boy was that an experience. I was lucky that my parents could help me financially through those.
Dee
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