New semester, new possibilites!

My final in microbiology is completed, and I'm waiting for my results any day now. It felt very good after this one, despite I had to leave three questions open. One of them was anyway about pharmacology, not microbes, so I'm not that sad..

Anyway, some fun facts about this spring semester: I've taken up speaking czech again. I have forgotten most of it, it seems, but I remember enough to make me self understood by one of our new international students in class; Lucie from Brno! We are also in the same casegroup, thus I'll be able to practice a little czech every now and then this coming 5 months.

Subject for this semester is by the way pathology, a step further from our basis in anatomy, histology, physiology and microbiology. We will be digging us down in diseases, patient tests, symptoms and death. I'm really looking forward to know to learn about all this!

This weekend has been quite good at the personal level. I got my laundry machine on friday, no more laundry drama in the basement for me! Due to the arrival of this gigant machine (my bathroom is only 145x155 cm, the machine 60x60) I had to do some redecoration of my bath. A new shower curtain and some new towelhooks are bought and on the way to be installed. I'm also working on my 1 year old plan of painting the bathroom door.. Hopefully it will be done.. sometime! And then, finally, I went skiing with my brand new skies today. The snow was perfekt, the temperature was perfekt.. and it felt good! 5 kilometer is not much, but it is a good start for me.

Tomorrow I'll start revicing my old ECG-labs from HK, thus on tuesday we will have an ECG-lab.. :)

Kebab for lunch

I'm back in Czech Republic again, that means that I from now will use my school-english (mixed with some international errors) again!

I've been here since saturday, revicing for my exam next week. It's slow progress in my work, but there is still hope that I might pass my two finals. The most important thing for me is not to read everything, but to remember everything I read. I use 3 different histological atlases plus the handbook of practical classes, and youtube. There is, luckily, a professor (or something like that) who have commented about 200 slides of histological preparates, and put it out on the internet. It's very helpful to see what I missed out when I read the texts. It's also easier to learn how to identify different cells and structures when somebody points them out for me and explain their function and apperance. So for you medicine students who are terrified for your histology or histopathology final:
http://www.youtube.com/user/WashingtonDeceit

Another nice thing is that there is a brand new kebab-store on the hospital area. The owner of the restaurant actually know what "halal" means, so it is good news for my malaysian classmates too. The kebab itself is loaded with chicken meat, salad, fresh onion, chili, other vegetables of your choise... and it tastes really nice! The price is 75 Kc, about 20-25 norwegian crowns. I was supposed to take a picture of it, but I ate it before I had time to do that.. Yummy!