Tuesday, March 09, 2010
Homesickness does not get any easier. Everyone says, "Ha but you 3rd time already still like that?" and I don't know how to reply except to give the -_- look. How unsympathetic.
Yep so the past 2 weeks have been the sort of homesick spate. I did mean to blog then, when I still had the emo-ness. However, laziness got in the way. I guess coz the past 2 weeks have been relatively slack so I have had time to think too much. Now that Phase 2 has officially started for my block I should revert back to my long disappearances in no time.
Sooo so far has been introweek... 1st week of MSK block was only lectures that ended early.. blah dee blah.. And TODAY........ was my official 1st day wearing smart clothes and going to the hospital as a Phase 2 student. Eeks. I suppose it is not really counted as a day of looking smart coz I had started for only 10 minutes before I was told to strip to unflattering blue gowns and shower caps :( So much for looking cool and chic in Phase 2.
It was a full day of theatre today, which I knew and so should have expected. Not exactly overwhelming but not the biggest confidence booster either. I still don't know how to make friends with ang mohs :/ The consultant and registrar and anaesthetist were quite nice but it was still a generally awkward 1st day coz I was a wooden block in the way of all the busy people in theatre. Once I crossed the red line into the forbidden zone and another time my gown brushed past the sacred blue sterile cloth -_- It really isn't as easy as I thought, keeping away from the sterile zone. It is a bit like playing a video game, whereby once you touch an invisible force field, you lose. Good thing I milked my 1st day 1st block new baby medical student status for all it was worth and got a few 'awww' s when I shyly announced that it was my 1st day coz although the people gasped and shrieked a bit when I crossed the force field they recovered quickly and nicely told me not to worry after that. Normally they take it really really seriously and people really do get scolded for that.
I don't think I can keep up the bluff for much longer tho. While some staff were taken in by my innocence and as a result asked me relatively basic questions and explained relatively basic things to me (to which, of course, I feigned ignorance and fascination), I have a suspicion that the main people in charge of my academic life for the next few months know what we know and so are gonna challenge us more.
Tomorrow is another day in a foreign land groping my way around in Phase 2 after which I will be (happily) off to Alice In Wonderland (2D) with Tim Burton and gang. Wish I won't be such a stone tomorrow.
Yep so the past 2 weeks have been the sort of homesick spate. I did mean to blog then, when I still had the emo-ness. However, laziness got in the way. I guess coz the past 2 weeks have been relatively slack so I have had time to think too much. Now that Phase 2 has officially started for my block I should revert back to my long disappearances in no time.
Sooo so far has been introweek... 1st week of MSK block was only lectures that ended early.. blah dee blah.. And TODAY........ was my official 1st day wearing smart clothes and going to the hospital as a Phase 2 student. Eeks. I suppose it is not really counted as a day of looking smart coz I had started for only 10 minutes before I was told to strip to unflattering blue gowns and shower caps :( So much for looking cool and chic in Phase 2.
It was a full day of theatre today, which I knew and so should have expected. Not exactly overwhelming but not the biggest confidence booster either. I still don't know how to make friends with ang mohs :/ The consultant and registrar and anaesthetist were quite nice but it was still a generally awkward 1st day coz I was a wooden block in the way of all the busy people in theatre. Once I crossed the red line into the forbidden zone and another time my gown brushed past the sacred blue sterile cloth -_- It really isn't as easy as I thought, keeping away from the sterile zone. It is a bit like playing a video game, whereby once you touch an invisible force field, you lose. Good thing I milked my 1st day 1st block new baby medical student status for all it was worth and got a few 'awww' s when I shyly announced that it was my 1st day coz although the people gasped and shrieked a bit when I crossed the force field they recovered quickly and nicely told me not to worry after that. Normally they take it really really seriously and people really do get scolded for that.
I don't think I can keep up the bluff for much longer tho. While some staff were taken in by my innocence and as a result asked me relatively basic questions and explained relatively basic things to me (to which, of course, I feigned ignorance and fascination), I have a suspicion that the main people in charge of my academic life for the next few months know what we know and so are gonna challenge us more.
Tomorrow is another day in a foreign land groping my way around in Phase 2 after which I will be (happily) off to Alice In Wonderland (2D) with Tim Burton and gang. Wish I won't be such a stone tomorrow.
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