This is a list of the people I will be spending exorbitant amounts of time with this year, in the Princess Alexandra Hospital:

I only know a few of them, and they are good, so I hope the rest are just as good.  Jacinda and I were in the same group last year!  I understand they try put pairs of people from old groups in the new ones, so there’s a little bit of carry over from before, and a lot of new.  I will sit in a room with these peeps for about 5 hours each week working on problems, sort of set up like this Small Group.  Also, half of them will be in my Clinical Coaching group which also meets for maybe two or three hours a week to learn practical skills.  Then after that, if we haven’t seen enough of each other, there’s “Practicals” which to me really means labs, including Anatomy, Pathology and various Physiology Pracs.  Also, there are one-off things to do like Clinical Skills… intubating, injections or life support.  Needless to say, you get to know your PBL group fairly well.

Hopefully it’s a good one!

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Here we are again, in the land of gross black tar with hot water on it.
Seems weird to have Christmas cups in 30 degree heat.

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I am still homeless and looking for an apartment too.
I recently discovered I am looking for roommates as well, since I’m now looking alone.
Hopefully something good comes around!

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I arrived in Brisbane today, a little disoriented and a lot tired. My flights were good, but very long. It was insanely hot on the plane and I was dying of thirst for a good chunk of it.

To start things off, I fell asleep with orange juice on my tray, only to wake up an hour later and try to slam my tray shut, orange juice and all. the cup broke, and dumped all over my lap and legs. I tried to drink the rest out of the cup, but since it was broken, I only ended up pouring it all over my shirt. Then I lifted the tray again, to find the little cup dip was full of juice and dumped more on my lap. I sat there soaking wet, looking like I peed my pants, waiting for it to get sticky and gross.

I’m sick, so I was coughing the whole flight, and now I feel like I did 1000 situps.

All that said, the good thing is that things look fairly familiar, and hopefully I’ll get up to speed again soon.

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Here it is!  2009…  Hopefully people are having a good new year, whish has already started in the City of Brisbane, but not here yet.

Each year the date always sounds so futuristic, and the old one sounds so commonplace.  It’s that weird feeling that the furniture finance companies take advantage of to make a date that is actually 13 months away, sound like forever away.  January, 2010.  Sounds far, but it’s really only 13 months.  November 2011 sounds a lot further still… it’s 35 months, but will be a good 35 months, that I’m looking forward to.

It’s not long now till I’m back in Vancouver, then on to Brisbane once again.  But until then, it’s good Alberta fun and family!

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