The semester is just whizzing by! One month and ten days left before I get to go home to a Winter Wonderland. It's been raining almost nonstop for the past two days. I haven't seen the island this bleak since I got here. The sky is just a solid grey.
I saw the movie Escape Plan with some friends the other week right after pharm block. It was very gripping and intense and by the end it was like I was holding my breath because there were so many close calls. I can't wait for Catching Fire to come out and to watch it in the theatres here!
We started our patient-doctor IV course this week. It takes place in a separate building about 2 mins away from the school. So far it's a very easy-going course and the prof is so sweet. Each of us will have to do an individual presentation worth 30% sometime during the semester, and then there will be a final evaluation at the end worth 70%.
I feel guilty for not cooking much this semester even though my place comes fully equipped and there's really no excuse not to be cooking. I think I've maybe cooked three times this semester so far, and two of those three times it did not come out well. The third time I made mussels with white wine sauce. That was my first time trying a recipe like that and I actually really liked it! (Recipe here) I made it a second time and added pasta to it and this is how it turned out:
Mussels and linguine in a white wine sauce
Currently studying for my final path II block, which will be covering renal, male and female, breast, and endocrine pathologies. Fingers crossed the prof won't destroy us on this block.
POSTED ON Thursday, November 1, 2012 AT 6:23 PM \\
Nov 1
It’s November!!!
Where did October go?? Oh yeah, it went towards studying for Block 2 exams, which was this Monday. So our new professor for histology just made us write the most ridiculous exam ever. Like. Ever. The entire class failed, except for 2 people. I won’t go into the details of the exam here. But it was ugly. Well that puts everyone in the hot seat now. Anatomy and Public Health were easy-breezy in comparison to Histology. But the end of Block 2 exams marks the beginning of the home stretch! Exactly one month and ten days until the semester is over. One more set of blocks right before the shelf exams.
On Monday I went snorkeling with some classmates. Unfortunately, my excitement was dampened when we got to the beach and saw that the waves were extremely strong. Trying to get into the waters was difficult because every two seconds there would be a strong wave that knocked me off my fins – I mean feet. It was so bad that at one point my fins actually slipped off and I lost one to the sea. After that I decided to call it quits. Plus my feet and ankles were getting rubbed raw by the rocks and rubble at the bottom of the waters. I would still love to try snorkelling on a day when the waves were calmer.
Halloween was on Wednesday, and since I didn’t have a costume prepared I decided not to attend the Halloween party that was happening at the Old Gin House. Instead I went to play ultimate Frisbee. Wishing I got candy on Halloween though.
The weather has been the usual sunny skies and humid air. I'm just glad we're not seeing any more hurricanes. I've already had my share of wet weather to last me the rest of the year!
That’s it for now! Just waiting for the weekend to come.
The semester is just whizzing by! One month and ten days left before I get to go home to a Winter Wonderland. It's been raining almost nonstop for the past two days. I haven't seen the island this bleak since I got here. The sky is just a solid grey.
I saw the movie Escape Plan with some friends the other week right after pharm block. It was very gripping and intense and by the end it was like I was holding my breath because there were so many close calls. I can't wait for Catching Fire to come out and to watch it in the theatres here!
We started our patient-doctor IV course this week. It takes place in a separate building about 2 mins away from the school. So far it's a very easy-going course and the prof is so sweet. Each of us will have to do an individual presentation worth 30% sometime during the semester, and then there will be a final evaluation at the end worth 70%.
I feel guilty for not cooking much this semester even though my place comes fully equipped and there's really no excuse not to be cooking. I think I've maybe cooked three times this semester so far, and two of those three times it did not come out well. The third time I made mussels with white wine sauce. That was my first time trying a recipe like that and I actually really liked it! (Recipe here) I made it a second time and added pasta to it and this is how it turned out:
Mussels and linguine in a white wine sauce
Currently studying for my final path II block, which will be covering renal, male and female, breast, and endocrine pathologies. Fingers crossed the prof won't destroy us on this block.
POSTED ON Thursday, November 1, 2012 AT 6:23 PM \\
Nov 1
It’s November!!!
Where did October go?? Oh yeah, it went towards studying for Block 2 exams, which was this Monday. So our new professor for histology just made us write the most ridiculous exam ever. Like. Ever. The entire class failed, except for 2 people. I won’t go into the details of the exam here. But it was ugly. Well that puts everyone in the hot seat now. Anatomy and Public Health were easy-breezy in comparison to Histology. But the end of Block 2 exams marks the beginning of the home stretch! Exactly one month and ten days until the semester is over. One more set of blocks right before the shelf exams.
On Monday I went snorkeling with some classmates. Unfortunately, my excitement was dampened when we got to the beach and saw that the waves were extremely strong. Trying to get into the waters was difficult because every two seconds there would be a strong wave that knocked me off my fins – I mean feet. It was so bad that at one point my fins actually slipped off and I lost one to the sea. After that I decided to call it quits. Plus my feet and ankles were getting rubbed raw by the rocks and rubble at the bottom of the waters. I would still love to try snorkelling on a day when the waves were calmer.
Halloween was on Wednesday, and since I didn’t have a costume prepared I decided not to attend the Halloween party that was happening at the Old Gin House. Instead I went to play ultimate Frisbee. Wishing I got candy on Halloween though.
The weather has been the usual sunny skies and humid air. I'm just glad we're not seeing any more hurricanes. I've already had my share of wet weather to last me the rest of the year!
That’s it for now! Just waiting for the weekend to come.
