I spent today at the beach, which was pretty great cause it’s starting to get hot enough. It was even a bit too hot. Anyways, most of the time was spent just lying there reading and talking about our exams etc. It was good to get out of the house.
There also was some pretty crazy lightning in the distance, but it didn’t really do much close by. It was hitting pretty fast, but a lot of it was behind the clouds. I took a clip of it and you can see it after the link.
Just studying a little here, it’s grey and cloudy. It rained this morning but hopefully it will dry out over the day because I play footy tonight… We’re not very good but we do have fun and it’s good to run around a bit. Despite thinking I was going to die the first time I played, I now could go for a bit longer games, I just start getting into it and it’s over.
Here in Sydney still, yesterday on the bus ride we went from Darling Harbour to the Rocks, Lady Macquarie’s Chair, and up the south bank of the harbour to the top of the Gap.
Today we got up and hit the ferries over to Manly, a beach on the north side of the mouth of the Sydney harbour. The ferries are sweet here and there are lots of them, and for good reason, they were packed full.
Now we are headed south to the highlands to Wongabri. It will be strange to be there again!
I am currently in Sydney, which is really neat to be back. I am on a bus tour of the city with my parents and we are just waiting to get started.
I have no internet connection at home and it makes a lot of things very difficult.
I am supposed to be able to connect my laptop to my cell for internet, but it doesn’t work. What’s worse, it worked once. Not the first time. It was about the tenth time. It made me think I had solved it, and then hasn’t worked since.
Literally more frustating than typing a post on nine keys… At least this is working. Hopefully it stays working since it’s my only link!
It’s my brother’s 25th Birthday today! It’s crazy to think of him that old, and with every birthday he has I can’t believe it. It’s another one of those normal things that I think about and that doesn’t seem to phase him at all; he’d say it’s just normal. It seems like just seconds ago I was there, and then a flash, and it’s him. Hope you have a great day Mike! Don’t take it as a sign of disrespect when I sleep until at least noon! (It’s only 6 am for me!) and anyways, you’re sleeping away right now… it’s almost 4 AM for you!
It was the first day of actual sessions today and it felt like a long one. There were a few different speakers in the morning that were fairly accomplished doctors, I understand that at least one of them had two Ph.D’s and some of them were part of some exciting stuff in the med world. It was a pretty good feeling to sit in that room, and made my head spin to think that just a few weeks ago my plans were so much different.
PBL starts tomorrow morning, so I ‘ll get a good idea of who I’m hanging out with in a small room for hours on end, for the next year. It was much the same as the international orientation and aside from a few Canadian/Australian jokes they could have just done them in the same day. We were in a lecture hall that seats around 450 and there are 421 of us, putting that air con to good work.
Anyways, my general feeling is excitement, I am a bit surprised to see how much I love hearing about people talking about caring for people, but what strikes me most is how intentional it seems. The fact that it is years of effort to learn to not only recognize and understand disease, but also to skillfully deliver care is one that makes me look forward to this challenge.
To make things easier for me to change my site, I have started… this. Don’t expect enlightenment, just plain, boring, normal things, as [my brother Mike pointed out] those often amaze me.
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