Here are a few more photos of the place that I’m staying temporarily.
It is a good place to be temporarily, but is definitely a dorm, complete with strangers everywhere, loud music and late loud talkers.
It’s cheap tho! Depending on where I end up living, it is about half to a third of what I will pay for my own place.
This is the green bridge, the link between campus and the other side of the river.
It’s suprisingly long, and once while crossing it I saw a dolphin playing in the water below.
It’s going to be a much bigger part of my life this year no matter where I live, since half of my life is on one side, and half on the other.
Monday afternoon here, and I’m still searching for an apartment. The only difference now is that it looks like I’m searching alone again. I was looking with a guy in my class and a friend of his, but now it looks like they will probably just live together in the place she’s in now.
I am moving into a dorm on campus for temporary accommodation though, so that looks like it will work out well for the interim. I suppose I’ll just get a two bedroom alone and see what I can do about a housemate. Seemed to work out last year.
This is more or less a test post to see what it looks like when I send a video direct from my phone… Let me know if it comes though ok.
I have been sending photos through, just not video yet.
This morning I decided to crack out the roller blades for the first time since moving here, and it was good… The roads could be better but the weather’s just right!
Time to take back the rental car I have had for a while now! Sad…
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We’re back into the program now, and we’re going through a bunch of boring topics like fire safety and how important it is to go to the prac sessions.
The pathology guy came and made a good appeal to students to not just try and navigate for the exam, because there’s much more required to be a doctor and, more importantly, a steward of your patients’ safety than a passing test score.
The photo attached is just one of the many spiders that hang out with me when I go near the library for a plug-in.
This is a list of the people I will be spending exorbitant amounts of time with this year, in the Princess Alexandra Hospital:
Shaun Dooley |
David Robert Graff |
Andree Laherty |
Ian Law |
Sebastian Le Feuvre |
Meghann Leahy |
Michael Lee |
Nele Lenders |
Jacinda White |
Emma Whittle |
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!
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!