slept through the summer, did I?

*performs immediate CPR on my blog* 30 counts, 2 ventilations - yeah, at least I know that one.

First aid test last week was absolutely dreadful. Dreadful in the "damn, why didn't I study that font 1.5 subtext" way. Absolutely painful. The only thing that made the test slightly better was the fact that people were whispering the answers all around me in the most audible manner.

"Ay, where the hell are we supposed to put the fracture ah? Above or below the fracture?"

"Er, neither. At the knee!"

*nods* Got it. B.

In other more interesting news, my orientation group just ballooned to about 10% of the medical student population! Many new additions because of the "friend of a friend" connection. And it just happens that people in my og have a lot of friends who belong to that dark void because they didn't come for the medicamp.

SEE? I told you guys to come.

It's just quite a pity I'm not too chummy with my og...they're fun to hang out with, really. And most of them are very nice people. It's just that well, sometimes, you just can't beat old friends. Lois seems to agree with me. And to prove my point that I'm not the only oddball around who fits into the og like some badly made jigsaw puzzle piece, Lynette's there to concur as well. YAY.

For now, lectures have been absolutely manageable and I've been such a saint - I already read through the first two chapters of my physiology textbook! That's 2 and a half hours work, mind you! Definitely not late night reading, unless of course you consider soporific content suitable material...to which I've nothing to say. Personally, I prefer to read reader's digest. And oh. I'm trying desperately to keep up with my reading of intellectual books in order to fulfill the great Intellectual Book Quotient for the year, so recommendations please! =D Harry Potter, most unfortunately, does not count. Neither does this nor this.

My violin lesson is coming along great! I'm on to my third lesson next week, so hopefully I can start bowing straight instead of all over the place, which explains the spine-tingling screech of the violin - which pretty much sums up how I sound like now. I shall aspire to reach grade 8 before I graduate! AHHH.

I learnt so much at church today! The lesson today was on "Difficult passages in the book of Genesis". Sounds really esoteric but it's really quite easy to understand and many new words today like "Christophany" and "anthropomorphism". Hm. Shall have to read up more. I'm still not convinced of said bear-mauling incident of the youths (yes, Lois, I know they're aged 25 or so) in response to the mocking of Elisha.

I mean, MAULING TO DEATH?

The week beckons with many lessons! First aid on wednesday and thursday, which sounds like a total pain in the ass, really. 8.30am to 6pm. I can imagine all the 30 ventilations and 2 breaths already...times 100. Not good.