Another week gone by the wind

I got a lot of catching up to do and a lot of pictures to publish – so let me begin.The last week has been hectic with a lot of course material grinding and presentation drilling.
We did manage to complete the mission thou – to pass the second oral course exam in chemistry.
I, Jeanine, Jackie, Degol, Arani and Niyat got together a couple of day of the week to sit in the park and go over the materials whenever the weather was good. The last days of the week we also went early to the office in order to use the whiteboard to drill presentations.



We figured that having our own whiteboard in the future is going to help a lot and more or less decided that it’s a good idea. We even stayed after school to study. Ambitious, you might say? Totally necessary, is my response.The material of the chemistry is not as wide as the Anatomy and Physiology but it’s harder to structure and keep separated into the different categories. That goes especially for organic chemistry which we’ve dedicated loads of hour to repeat. It’s not much understanding, just a lot to drum into one’s head.

Considering the fact that Dr. Moshe STILL hasn’t got back to us and the time to send in the applications for the different universities are closing in everyone have been kind of stressed up lately. Budgets are being discussed along with living conditions and the choice of school. It’s a lot to think about and we really would like Dr. Moshe to be here to answer our questions.
When we try to contact him all we get back is pretty much “just stay calm and wait for me...”
That’s exactly what we don’t want to do due to the lack of trust established lately...

Still, I think mine and everybody else’s progress is, as mentioned before, going great(!).
Everyone seemed to pass the oral exam today and that really makes me happy.

The oral, unprepared presentation exams are quite funny actually. It goes like this:
The day before the exam we get a time that we’re expected to show up. When we arrive we get a subject, obviously hand picked by Dr. Moshe (I guess he still have a hand in it), and twenty minutes to prepare a presentation. We cannot use any notes or other accessories than a piece of paper, a pen and our brains hopefully containing the knowledge about the subject. After that we have to conduct the presentation smoothly covering as much of the material as possible being able to answer questions give both during and after the presentation.

Before you get your subject it feels kind of a medical roulette. You’re both nervous and excited at the same time. You just want to know what subject you’ll get so that you can focus on one thing and not the whole course material.

Once the subject is revealed all tension is gone and you focus to the maximum level possible.and I must admit I nailed it pretty good. I was actually hoping to get something from the organic chemistry since we’ve drilled it so much but still, it went good and I’m more than satisfied.
Claudia, our teacher, was really not holding back with the questions and she got me doubting a few times but that’s just a good thing.

Now I’m at the train back home and a lot of things need to be done this weekend.
I got to finish my application and all the attached documents such as passport copy, upper sec. school grades translations, passport photos and a short essay answering the question: "Why do you want to study to become a physician?"
I also have to clean and move the last stuff out of the apartment since we're leaving it next week.

"Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy"
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko