bonjour brightside

we had group osce practice today, and my osce partner randomly said ‘holler atcha boy’ to someone else and i immediately iit up and exclaimed ‘oooh i know where that came from!’ i love the phrase, it’s so catchy hahaha. yes and if you know where that came from then we share a bond. holler atcha boy!

anyway exams have officially begun, i am one down and two more to go… major ones too. :s certainly sucks that everyone else is done and having fun in the sun, while i tear my hair out and study myself silly. even my brother is squeezing in weekend escapades to france and belgium on top of juggling a new school term!! oh well. i shall not whine further. c’est la vie! i’ve given it all i can, given up so much for this…. so what’s a little more to give? i am nearly there. nearly nearly there!!!

p.s. i can’t wait to go home i miss you all soooo much. family + friends = my sustenance for exam madness.   LOVE xxx

H: I saw your ‘favorite’ friend today- S. aka my michelle 0bama. Nah i was cold for you, cuz i was like ‘wot a ho!’

E: Don’t be hating! But thanks though, you know i love you for that UGH I’ve been sick the whole day!! I always fall ill during exam time

H: You need my powers. you know i shoot IgM out from my eyes and IgA from my hands? I’ll save you!

yeah sometimes i need some saving……. like now. maybe, you’re gonna be the one who saves meeee

sometimes when i feel like i’m falling apart, i think of you and reminisce about the happy old times. i wonder if you still remember me

today i visited a patient in his home as part of a community palliative care visit. he was battling a terminal illness and was in a lot of pain. but he managed to smile at me and even offered me lemons from his lemon tree. he blew me away with his generosity, even in his difficult circumstances- so i accepted. we took a walk in his garden, towards his blooming lemon tree and he said i could pluck as many as i wanted. his wife gave me a plastic bag to put the lemons and so i gingerly tried to pluck 2 or 3 lemons but he stepped in to give me a hand. so we plucked lemons together and he made me take 11 lemons home. later he showed me his prized orchids, his empty aviary (he had to give his birds away), everything in his garden that was meaningful to him. he smiled at all these beautiful things and i genuinely believed that for that moment, he was happy and not in pain.

naturally i have this amazing ability to procrastinate just days before my exam. i feel like i have to blog more during exam times because it helps take away the stress when i write it down. anyway today i spent 9 hours in the hospital! amazing. like J said, i could camp there and no one would know. i had osce practice with this bunch of really committed medicos, we’re a good mix of international and local students and it helps that everyone is really nice and encouraging. we couldn’t find any available room to practice in, so we went to the outpatient clinics and used it as our venue! which i must say, worked really well!

then i bought myself a huuuuge slab of sticky date pudding from the cafe. i said ‘hi can i have a slice of sticky date pudding’ and the guy who served me was very cheeky. he said ‘how much are you willing to pay?’

i laughed and said ‘for as much it’s worth’. anyway i was pretty pleased with my sweet treat (it was actually my breakfast and lunch) and devoured it within an hour. and ended up feeling a bit sickish…

i finally left the hospital at 930pm and just as i left i heard a helicopter! and i thought OMGGG a helicopter is landing! so i ran towards the helipad with my bag and books in tow and there it was, dazzling lights and revolving huge blades… a helicopter! it was exciting. possibly the most interesting thing that i saw in this week, apart from last tuesday when i sat for my paper and saw a jockey riding his horse when i looked out of the window.

ok exams in less than 48 hours! press on! i’m off to traralg0n for the osces! i hope i get lovely examiners. i’m excited i can’t wait for exams to be over. i’m already making my things-to-do-after-exams list. haha!