Well I hosted another end of year party for my class. It was fun, everyone came except for one, plus Brian and Scott. We drank way more this time, oh jeeze. After 11 finals I guess that’s ok though. After like 6 hours at our house we went downtown to dance it up, which was pretty fun too. I like my class.
TO BLOG:
I had an epic weekend!! So much fun. I can’t wait to blog about it all but I took over 200 hundred pictures and that is going to take another day to sort out, and I’m gonna have to split it up into a couple posts.
For now I can tell you that my first day of work was good! We got a big tour of the department, met lots of people, saw a bunch of patients, and got introduced to the fifty million programs they use on the computers. We spend two weeks on each on a different camera, shadowing whoever is scheduled to work on that camera. We had a bit of extra time today so I got to have a bone scan (no injection obviously). That might seem a bit silly but it was interesting to see how the patients might feel when they come in and hear all the strange noises and get a big block camera put 1 cm away from the tip of their nose by a total stranger.
Okeedoke. All for now, I want to go to bed early tonight. More tomorrow!!
I wrote one more exam this morning and have another this afternoon. I just thought I’d post now because I am getting kind of giddy about this weekend and need to get it out of my system. PERMA GRIN!!!
I think I’m gonna be having another class party tomorrow after our last exam. I wasn’t sure if I would be able to because I thought we were leaving for camping on Friday night, but now we’ve decided to leave Saturday morning instead so I can DO IT ALL. I don’t have time to make a cake or anything fancy but it will be very good to hang out with our class one last time before we all leave for our summer placements all over the place.
I am very excited for camping. I haven’t been camping in a tent in ages!! Maybe since Australia before I bought my van I guess but that didn’t even really feel like camping because I was actually LIVING out of the camp ground. Or the white water rafting trip with Natasha, Rosemarie and Sarah Swan!? Or maybe the last was the night at Corkstown with Catty and all her friends? AHHH WHATEVER I LOVE CAMPING.
We’ll also be doing some rock climbing and games playing and stuffing our face with camp foods. We’re bringing smores stuff of course and I want to make toasted subs in the fire. I’M SO EXCITED!! I’ll try to take lots of pictures.
It’s raining. I’m not going to complain about it though because we had FIFTEEN straight days of sunny warm dry weather here in Vancouver. Man it has been nice lately. Studying outside, walking to school again, not wearing a jacket…. so nice.
Hopefully it doesn’t go back to 10°C and rainy until the last week of August like last year.
I still have five exams to go, but they are less stressful ones thankfully. Last week sucked.
I liked this pretty blue bird we had on our balcony. Scott identified it as a Stellar Jay, British Columbia’s provincial bird (thanks internet). I like his mohawk!
Homemade chicken banh mi and potato wedges for dinner last night. Delicious. Love the crunch of the pickled carrots and daikon.
Today was rough. We wrote two important and difficult final exams. Both of them didn’t go very well for me. :/ They didn’t go well for anyone, really. We’ll see what happens when marks start popping up. Fingers crossed for bell curving.
We also got our work schedules for the summer. Oooo boy, a lot of 7 AM starts for me. Please keep in mind that WE ARE NOT GETTING PAID. Actually I shouldn’t complain too much about my schedule because VGH has some of the latest starts compared to the other hospitals where they have to be there at 5:30 or 6:00 AM sometimes. The earliest I have to go in is 6:45 AM. ANYWAY the moral of the story is that I am going to be tired this summer.
How much longer is this program?? Ugh.
SIX MORE FINALS TO GO!
Tomorrow I have to go scrubs shopping. I’m thinking head-to-toe neon yellow, yeah?