horrible flight, delayed and i had to sit next to this woman who kept complaining to me and kept harassing the flight staff and waking me up from sleep ):
but all that matters is that im here now!
i have another 2 flights to go before reaching Michigan and it's gonna be another long day of travel for me.
four flights in two days, i feel like a jetsetter already!
by the way, im staying in Columbia Uni halls and the rooms are so run down. makes me appreciate Elms a lot more, but seriously, the campus is FREAKING huge and it is really THE most beautiful campus i've ever ever seen.
there are huge roman pillars everywhere and the brick lanes are all lines with huge trees. i'd LOVE to study here.
but anyway, i gotta go and not sure when i'll get to blog/email again so take care and i'll see ya! (:
*btw i thought i packed quite heavy but you should see some of these girls with their 30 kg wheelie bags and there are some wearing highheeled boots. hello, you're going to CAMP.
i FORGOT to wear gloves while during the urine analysis. who does that?!!
bleargh!
and then also i finished my chest examination and was standing there waiting for the next station then i remembered 'oh freaking crap i forgot heaves and thrills!'
so i ran back and asked the guy to please take his shirt off again cause i forgot something.
i am no longer living in my little pokey room in halls and i'm now living in a proper house!
ALSO, i have a double bed (: the only thing is, my comp can't connect to the wireless network so i'm at the library now ):
well, another reason for me to buy my Mac!
anyway, moving was really crap. somehow, i arrived in the UK with one giant bag and now, i need one large luggage bag, one 65L backpack, and six giant trashbags and another two large boxes for my stuff.
how did i manage to accumulate so much?!!
half of my stuff, we had to transfer stuff twice.
half of my clothes on the bed. the pile looks deceptively small here, but trust me i almost died lugging it up and down the stupid stairs.
after months of endless planning and paranoia, i've got my visa and all my flights are booked!
so this is what i'm doing this summer.
yeah i'm not coming back.
i *did* book a one way flight to the UK after all.
so anyway i decided to do something really different cause i really didn't want to go home and sit there doing nothing for 4 whole months. it's nice and all, but seriously what am i going to do?
and when i graduate i'm never going to get holidays and breaks all that much so i'm determined to do it all while i can.
in ten days' time, i'll be flying to the US alone to work in a summer camp as a camp counselor for eight whole weeks (:
yeah i really *do* miss YF camps that much! i'll be working in Michigan and to me, the best bit is that it's a Christian camp.
then after that, i'll be doing a backpacking/camping trip with some people whom i've never met before from New York to Miami for two weeks. (see map below!)
yup, i'm going alone and i don't know who else is going. but hey, isn't that the exciting bit? and also, i came to UK alone so i dont think US is going to be a far stretch.
and i think another great thing about this trip is knowing that all the expenses are selfraised. all that freaking hard work for the past three months (and a few more after the trip) will be all for the trip of a lifetime (: so i won't feel guilty spending my parents' money.
anyway that's in ten days and before i go, i still have to study for physiology/medical stats/ individual in society/ epidemiology/ OSCEs, take two more papers for the exams, move all my crap from my tiny room in halls to my NEW house (yay!) but that's going to be super hard work cause somehow i've bought so much crap since i've been here, and then buy all the things i need for US, AND lastly pack for the US.
no more Gray's Anatomy for the next four months! (:
and i tell you, after reading that book everyday for the past week, i really can't think of anything better.
anatomy was okay today, i really love how the Brits structure their exams.
it always seems like it's some kinda obstacle course or something because the exams are always in a few stations and you are shuffled from one stage to another in these mysterious staircases and waiting rooms.
and today's one was actually quite fun. there were so many specimens around the room an everytime the bell rang, everyone moved one step to the right.
it really was quite funny. and a few times i would forget that there were two questions on the table and remember it just before the bell rang so i hastily scribbled something relevant to the structure and pray i was right.
i've never seen so many hearts in a row. it became really hard to orientate myself after awhile because they all look the same!
but anyway i'm glad that's over and it's another 6 days to the next ):
seriously wei all this studying is really getting to me.
went to some anatomy revision class today where they had all these plastic structures and i realised how stupid i am.
thought i was on pretty good standing until i saw all the muscles that i still need to know and seriously, there are names for EVERYTHING.
some people are really too free one. like there are these few holes on your bones hor, when you look at it from the front one name, look from the back a different name one!
grrrrrrrrrrr. the only good thing is that it's something i actually enjoy studying, not like physics or what.
there's going to be a self-imposed ban on Everything Fun and Time Wasting for at least two weeks from today.
my anatomy exam is in a weeks' time and i still have SO many names of the arteries and veins to remember!! summore hor, they have the most ridiculously long names EVER.
it is *so* difficult to study when everyone is frolicking in the grass outside, playing football, lying on the gardens talking and laughing while i look on from my sad little window knowing that i still have to memorise names of each small nick of a particular bone.
and i can never concentrate cause it's so bloody hot in my room! >.<
