What's new

Well kids, it's been a crazy couple of weeks since my last post (a thousand apologies for taking so long!). This may sound confusing, but so much has changed and yet so little has changed. I think the biggest thing that I feel has changed is that I finally feel I am settling in (took long enough). I still spend copious amount of time studying, but I'm learning to not sweat so much under pressure. I remember how at the beginning of the semester I would get freaked out when I heard people talking about stuff I didn't know and now, I walk by them and smile:-)
It's finally getting chilly down here (well, I actually have to wear a jacket now, let's just say that), but no frost (don't know if they actually get that here....hmmm). I am so looking forward to being done with this semester, although I know that it's probably the easiest yet most hard semesters of my career, simply for the life adjustment factor. I think I'll probably be coming home mid-December. I must also apologize for the fact that I didn't get a chance to see people when I came home last weekend. It was a crazy weekend. I don't like American Airlines at all and I was so pooped from the whole ordeal that after the wedding, I just crashed.
It's been exciting around here this week because it was the first week of interviews for the Class of 2012 so that was very cool. Man, I hope I didn't look that nervous when I interviewed, although I probably did:-)
That's about it for now. Later!

Things

Things annoying me right now:

1. People who don't say hi when you say hi
2. People who suddenly quit being nice to me (what on earth did I do? I sit racking my brain and come up with nothing!)
3. My loud muffler (dang brick wall that was too low to see, but at just the right level to smash my muffler)
4. Gloomy weather:-(
5. Tests that I know nothing about....

Things I'm grateful for:

1. God and His awesomeness
2. My wonderful family
3. My sister Rachel, Angie, and Keri for calling me and cheering me up last night (even though I didn't get to be there for Angie's bachlorette party, sniff sniff)
4. Good food (California pizza kitchen anyone?)
5. Going home in 12 days!!!!!!


Okay, back studying.........hmmmmmmmm

What a weird yet wonderful feeling

Sitting at Panera studying developmental anatomy of the heart for the next anatomy test, I am suddenly struck by this sudden thought that I'm actually in med school. Yes, silly I know. After all, I've been talking about my experiences for the past several months, but sometimes I just have to pinch myself and realized it's not a dream. It's such a weird thought. Okay, so I can't help but people watch while I'm here. A very diverse crowd comes and goes. From the little children begging their parents to carry their own tray of food to the young teenage girls discussing the latest new drama in their life (it's funny to think that life doesn't change much as far as what we experience- just different variations of the same general concepts I suppose) to the old couples looking so sweet together, I am surrounded by life! Where am I going with you might ask- oh, I don't really know, except to say that life, of all varieties, is wonderful! Even while I go through what everyone around me deems misery (I myself even feel that way at times), I still feel privileged to have this life, to experience it, to taste it, feel it and live it. I just got an email from a friend in Ethiopia that I met this summer. He was telling me about all that is going on there and I couldn't think about how blessed I was to be sitting at Panera eating a bagel, drinking coffee, and studying for my test:-)