Week 4

Wow, I can't believe that I'm starting my 4th week in England already. Dang! Time has gone by really fast. Not a whole lot to tell about this week, but I'll summarize it anyway.

I already did Monday in last week's entry, so Tuesday. I had my animal anatomy class on Tuesday morning. It was run a lot better than the human class. (In defense there are only 16 of us in animal anatomy and 56 in human) We got into groups and put together some animal skeletons. My group got a dog. Other groups had a cat, a sheep and a deer. We then compared and contrasted the skeletons of the different animals. Mostly carnivore versus herbivore, but also some differences within the categories. We have pretty much free range in this lab as we are the only class using it. We have the door code so we can go in whenever we want to work with the bones. The human lab is much more restricted because there are a lot of forensics classes here that need to work with those skeletons.

So on Wednesday I didn't have any classes, but I planned to join the choir, which meets at 5pm. I went to campus early and went to the animal bone lab for awhile to do some of the work that our prof had left for us. It was actually pretty easy and I felt good about it, but sheep are a lot like llamas, which I spent weeks working with in Bolivia a few summers ago, so we'll see how other species go when we get there. Then I headed off to choir rehearsal. They didn't have enough copies of the music because they didn't expect so many people to show up and then they gave us just the words to one song and no music. So that was odd, but it was fun overall and I'm planning to go back this week.

Then on Thursday I went with some other girls to the human bone lab to work on that for awhile. We used a plaster skeleton so that we could see how all of the parts are suppose to look when they are whole. It was good to get an overview, but I'm pretty sure we're starting with the skull this week, which will be really hard. There are so many bones that compose the skull its ridiculous. Ah well, I'm sure I'll learn it. After being in the lab for about 2 hours I went to the library to get some more books to read over the weekend. I have checked out my limit of 12 books. I feel so student-like. I haven't even opened most of them yet, but I have them and that's what counts I think ;)

On Friday I didn't go in to campus at all. It was raining again, as it had been every day this week, and I didn't have anything that I needed to do there, so I stayed home and read some of my books and colored some pictures of human bones so that they are easier to reference.

On Saturday we had "Canadian Thanksgiving" Apparently Canada has Thanksgiving this Monday and there are two Canadians that live down the hall so they invited everyone over for a feast. I brought green bean casserole and an apple pie. We also had stuffing, two turkeys, home made gravy, sweet potato casserole, mashed potatoes, salad and mixed veg. It was really good. After dinner we went to Bournemouth to go dancing. As most of you know, usually I wouldn't dance, but I figured I needed to get out of the house and I'm sure work is going to start coming in this week so there will be far less fun to be had after this weekend.

Today I slept late and then had to run and get a birthday present for my friend whose birthday is today. We're having a party for her at 1. Then tonight I'm cooking dinner for my flatmates. One has the flu, so she won't be able to eat, but the others should be around. If not, I'll just eat it myself :) I'm making stuffed chicken breasts, salad and ice cream sundaes since Two Rivers, WI is the home of the ice cream sundae.

On a funny note: My flatmate was going to visit his girlfriend this weekend. So he left on Friday night, but when he went to put gas in his car he put diesel instead of petrol. So he didn't get to leave on Friday. He ended up leaving Saturday, but I really didn't get an explanation of how that happened. Its not like he just got the car.

Well, I guess that's all I have for this week. Shoot me a comment on here or an email. I'd love to hear from you. Until then...