Start of Module 2

We started the second module yesterday. I am on equine for the next forf weeks, starting off with orthopedics. I feel so useless; somehow I always manage to forget all the material that I had learned the night before. At least the clinicians and redidents that we've been working with are nice.
Today was exciting since the new build had it's official grand opening and Princess Ann came. I didn't get to see her, but the event was in the news. It's always exciting when royalty comes round.


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Sunday

Went into the city today to work on our neuro presentation. We ended up talking about our weekend more than working on the presentation; hopefully we do ok tomorrow.

Afterwards, I went to Sainsbury to pick up food for the week and some more clothes. I need to go try those on soon. Spent most of the evening cooking food for the week so that I could have proper meals. So far I've made chinese vegetable soup, spicy 'sausage' sauce to go with pasta, creamy butternut squash and sage sauce to go with gnocchi (which I need to get), and roasted some butternut squash and onions to make more soup tomorrow. I also have stuff to make thai 'chicken' green curry and eggplant lasagna. I'll have to make those Wednesday.

Tomorrow starts my last week at the small animal hospital; next stop is four weeks at the equine hospital. Have to do a lot of cramming for that next weekend!!!! At least I won't have to dress nicely for that since we have to wear boiler suits.


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Crazy Night

As usual, my neighbors were very noisy and banged lots of doors when they came home (drunk) last night. A little while later, somene kept buzzing to be let in. I finally got annoyed and let them in, and they promptly started to clump about and bang on all the hallway doors. I thought it was the drunk neighbors' drunk friends that didn't know you had to open the hallway door so to get to the flat doors. They eventually figured it out and started banging on my neighbors' door. From the sounds coming out of the hallway, I thought something was up so I went to my door to look out the peep hole.

To my amazement, there were two cops in my hallway!!!! I opened the door to see what was wrong, and they started asking me about my neighbors (if they were home, who lived there, what kind of people were they, etc). I told them that my neighbors had recently gotten back in, and they were a young couple with a kid and a big dog. Cops said thanks, I said you're welcome, and then I went back into my flat and locked the door while they went back to banging on the door and looking through the mail slot. The cops started shouting that they could see my neighbor's shadow and that she needed to open the door. She shouted back that the cops needed a warrant.

I quickly went to the living room, to be as far from the action as possible. A few minutes later, I looked out then window and saw a taxi, two cops cars and a cop van. There was a lot of shouting, walkie talkie talk, and guarding of the hallway door before the lady cop was able to convince my neighbor that no warrant was required and she (neighbor) had to open the door because she (cop) needed to make sure everyone was ok.

Long story short, the taxi driver noticed the couple arguing in his cab and then saw blood when they got out. He called the cops reporting a possible assault. My neighbor claims that they had gone out drinking with another couple, and that at some point she fell and busted her nose. They did have a fight in the cab, but she was not assaulted. And now her partner was passed out in bed and she was fine (swollen eyes due to the drinking). I don't think the cops were convinced, but there was not much else they could do except inform child services that the police had been called there. That led to another tear fest and more arguing. But the cops have to involve child services whenever they are called out for domestic issues, even if the child was not present.

All of this drama started around eleven and finished just after midnight. There was more shouting and banging coming from my neighbors this morning; lord only knows what they were up to. So glad that we won't be living here too much longer. Have already lived next to crazy neighbors with domestic issues (chick was CRAAAAZY and eventually arrested), and don't particularly want to go through that again.


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Count down

Just bought my plane ticket for my Christmas holiday. I shall be in the States 19 Nov - 6 Jan. Only 63 days to go!


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Woot

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Getting familiar with my new iPad2. This should make blogging from school and stuff much easier. But we'll see. I am not very consistent with these things, lol. Also, please forgive my typos when I post from the ipad since I've turned off autocorrect.

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