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Tomorrow will be my first day at another new clinical placement. I’m much less nervous than usual, at least I have a better idea of what to expect now. I’ve set out my scrubs and packed my backpack to maximize the amount of time I get to stay in bed early tomorrow morning. It’s going to be so cold!! Vancouver has been going down to BELOW FREEZING lately! :P

I spent the whole weekend doing homework so that I don’t have a lot of work to do during the week/next weekend. Worth it? I don’t know, but I definitely enjoy relaxing after school/work instead of having to do school stuff. And there is skeleton next weekend…

We did go out for sushi on Friday. It was a Groupon dinner. It was ok, but nothing special. I’d rather go to Broadway Station Sushi and that is cheaper too. You will be able to see what we ate tomorrow because I will be posting my first set of dinner pictures! I haven’t missed a day yet!

PS I AM REALLY EXCITED ABOUT L.A. AND FIJI COMING UP IN LESS THAN 2 MONTHS.

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I just realized I totally forgot to blog about NYE, Cirque du Soleil, or the duck. I know it’s all old news now so I’ll just quickly show you some pictures.

We went to our friends apartment for New Years Eve. It was fun. They had crackers that had sweet gifts inside like luggage tags and paper clip holders. One person got a camera tripod!

Cirque du Soleil (Amaluna) was awesome. The tallest guy in the whole tent sat in front of me but I just creepily leaned over towards the stranger on my left so I could see the stage. I let Scott have the good seat because it was his first Cirque experience. He liked it.

I liked: the flexible water tub girl, especially when she swam out of the tub directly into a handstand (I HAVE TO LEARN THAT!!), the tight-rope girl (not the guy), and the see-saw flipping guys. The balancing branches thingy was neato. I wonder if she has ever had it fall down during a show. I wonder how fast she could set it up if she wanted to.

I didn’t like: the bars act, I don’t think it was special enough to be part of the show. We’ve all seen the Olympics! (I know I am a tough customer.)


It’s not burnt, it’s caramelized honey I swear

I decided I wanted to try to roast a duck because they were on sale at Superstore. By the way I really like that Superstore has pages of foods on sale that are for non-white-people holidays. Good on them for realizing that Vancouver has so many people with their own holidays that they should be able to celebrate with as much ease as people that celebrate Christmas.

Scott made scallion pancakes and we chopped up some green onion and cucumber to eat with our duck. It turned out pretty well! Most of the fat drained off the duck onto the pan below. (So much for trying to save some scrubbing… the fat all went underneath the tin foil). I don’t know if I’ll ever cook it again but it was fun to try. PS did you notice that our duck was missing one leg?

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English Bay, Vancouver on January 1st, 2013

Scott and I (along with 2,231 other people) did the polar bear swim again in English Bay in downtown Vancouver on January 1st. This was Scott’s third time doing it, and my second time. It was cold!! But since it wasn’t raining it was pretty easy to warm up again afterwards.

Every year we are better prepared, like this year we both brought flip flops because standing on the cold sand is actually the worst part!!! Next year I will NOT leave my towel by the tables because it got trampled by everyone rushing to get their buttons after coming out of the water. Doh!

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School started today (boo). We were lucky to only have a short day though (yay). We got a bunch of labs and met a new teacher. Everything seems to be pretty much the same as last semester (yay), except we won’t be having Friday’s with the other set any more (boo).

Three new years resolutions:

  1. Take a picture of my dinner every day and post them here every second Monday
  2. Improve my grades, dazzle at clinical, get hired somewhere
  3. Be less lazy (same as last year)

Scott and I are going to see Cirque du Soleil’s Amaluna tonight. I am excited!

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Winter break is almost over. :(

We’re going to a friends house for NYE tonight, then tomorrow is the polar bear swim. I’m still undecided whether I will actually swim or not. It’s supposed to be nice and sunny, which is good, but it’s also supposed to be around 4°C! It’s snowing right now!! BRRRRR!!!

I bought our tickets to L.A. in March. Scott and I will spend two nights there together, then I fly to Fiji and he flies home. We’ve already planned to go to a basketball game, and to go to Magic Mountain, but other than that I have no idea what to do there or where we should stay. Any recommendations?