I'm updating early today because I want to put off the inevitable studying a little bit longer. I have my first exam as a master's student on Monday. Its a spotter test in human anatomy, which means there will be pieces of bone laid out on tables in the lab and we'll have to go around and identify each one and important parts of it and which side of the body it comes from. In the 5 weeks we've been in school we've only done the cranium, mandible, vertibrae and ribs, so that gives you an idea of the level of detail we are working with. I really do feel like I know most of the info, but I'm still pretty nervous about the test. Its 20% of the grade I believe, so not too much but still enough. So anyway, I have to do a bit more reviewing today and then I'm putting away the books until after the exam. I don't want to be completely burnt out before the test.
Due to the test, this was a pretty boring week. I was in lab every day and studying outside of lab a lot of the rest of the time. A few of us took time out on Tuesday though to go to a tapas bar in Bournemouth. Tapas are a Spanish thing where you order a bunch of small dishes that everyone shares. Unfortunately this place was not very good. Nothing had much flavor and the chorizo was almost like jerky :( Luckily we had gone to Bournemouth early so that we could do a bit of shopping before dinner. I found a really cute dress at a little shop there, so the whole night wasn't a loss.
Wednesday I had choir and we are apparently having a Christmas concert with the orchestra. Its going to be on a Sunday night though, so I don't know if I'll make it. Its hard to get a bus to campus on a Sunday and I'm not paying 15 pounds each way for a cab. We're going to perform once before that though on a Thursday night, so that should be fine. I also have a big paper due the day after the Xmas concert, so it may be a bad time for it anyway.
Thursday and Friday were spent doing more studying. On Friday we got out a box of juvenile skeleton pieces so the skull wasn't fused. That way we could see if we were able to identify the bones using real bones. We did a pretty good job of it I felt. So I'm not too worried about the exam, but still worried......Then Friday night we had a group dinner. Two girls from Holland made us soup. One was pumpkin and the other was zucchini. It was really good. I may have to ask for the recipe.
Saturday I went down to the coffee shop near my house with another girl and studied there for about 3 hours. I now pretty much know the muscle attachments on the back of the skull. Or some of them anyway. On the way home from the coffee shop we had to stop at the drug store, so we wandered through the mall. I'd been told there was a library in the mall so we went looking for that. We found it and signed up for library cards. Then we realized that you have to pay for the movies at the library. They are fairly cheap, but still! I guess that's pretty common, because when we were telling people later, they weren't surprised. So on our way out of the mall we passed a shop with boots out front. I've been looking for a pair of black boots because I have a bunch of clothes that won't go with my brown ones, so we stopped in. And I found some nice ones! They are flat, which is awesome, with just a little bit of detail to make them interesting and not crazy. So I was really happy about that. Then we finally got to the drug store and went home. Because the girls had made so much soup the night before, we went over there to have dinner again. It was still delicious and we still couldn't finish it all, so some ended up getting thrown away. After that I came back to my room and watch tv until I went to bed.
Today I must do a bit more studying and then I have to go find a cool hat. One of the other flats is having a hat pot luck next week. I don't know what this entails exactaly, but it definitely means I need a hat. Too bad I didn't bring any of the ones I have at home. Its kind of rainy right now, but hopefully it clears up this afternoon so that I can go out. Otherwise I may have to put off the hat buying until tomorrow.
Well, I suppose that's all I've got for today. Hopefully next week will be a bit more exciting, but probably not because I have a test in my animal anatomy class next Tuesday. Woo! Take care and I hope to hear from you soon.
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