Happiness

After a long long day on my placements I finally got home and could sit down and enjoy some candy and Skype with Dad and Tobias. It was so good to see their faces again. I'm really looking forward to coming home and being able to give them a massive hug and of course kick Tobias's ass again. The weather today was awful and I had to wait for 25 minutes for my mentor to pick me up before she gave up on traffic and told me to take the bus to the health centre. A lot of roads have been flooded so the queue was awful. Even though it's been a cold, rainy and windy day I've been enjoying myself. I've watched two catheters, done a few dressings, been in a meeting with a few GPs to discuss some of our palliative care patients and also like always learned a lot of new things. Tomorrow I'm going to be in the treatment room and that's always fun. I've also gotten my midway assessment done and I think I did pretty well. I'm currently on a bubble of joy since my lovely Alexandra Hinterdobler is coming to Edinburgh this weekend. I am so excited to see her again since I haven’t seen her since Hogmanay.

My girl <3

Break time

I know I've been taking a looong break from the blog, but man it felt good! I guess I should update you on the main events. I went to see Breaking Dawn with Tasha, Ellen and Amy from halls. It was a lot of fun even though the film was kind of a disappointment. But that's to be expected with Kirsten Stewart in the main role, seriously, what the hell were they thinking? Then after quite a rough day at work on Thursday I went to Edinburgh and was on the phone with my mom for most of the bus ride because I really needed someone to talk to. After some trouble with my hard drive I got a new one and Anubis is up and running! I love my new computer and I'm bringing it up to Stirling next weekend. During the weekend I didn’t really do much at all apart from on Sunday when I went shopping with Lee. Even though I've been away from my blog for ages nothing exiting had happened. 

True love

My new computer is finally here! He is such a beauty. However I'm still waiting on the screen and one lousy little cable before we can bring him to life. I was planning for my computer to be a girl, since my laptop is a "boy" and his name is Walter. However, after looking for a good name for my computer Anubis - God of processing is what I decided on and he kind of looks more like a boy. So my computer is an awesome Egyptian God. If you're curious about the computer -this- is the sexy new computer I've bought.

More photos will come once I set him up <3

Skype lovin'

So once again it's been ages since I've blogged. There has been a lot going on, so I have my reasons. Now it's update time. My placements have been draining me of most of my energy, but I'm absolutely loving it! One again I'm going to tell you all that I'll tell you all about it later.

This weekend I was planning to stay in Stirling to do my essay. But Connor’s grandparents had their 50^th anniversary! I have to say that I’m so impressed about that. 50 years is a hell of a long time. It was my first time meeting some of his extended family and as expected they were all really nice.  

Lee, Connor's grandmother and Connor's uncle John

Connor's brother Jack, Connor's grandfather and the man himself (Connor)

Lee and John

Being surrounded by family like that made me really miss my own family and I spent the following night having nightmares about never seeing my own family again. No me gusta

I finished my essay in time, even though I have to say that was a miracle! And after my placement the following day I had an amazing Skype date with Eva, Tanni and Karianne. Morgan also joined for a few minutes and showed us his pet snake before he and his mom started talking in French and he had to go. Right now I’m on Skype with Nora topping up on gossip and tomorrow I’m off to Edinburgh =D

Working nine to five

Or 8:30 to 16:30 to be more precise. I've started my placement and I'm out and about in the community with my mentor caring for those who are to unwell to come into the GP practise. I've also been helping (aka observing since I'm not really allowed to do anything yet) one of the nurses in the treatment room. I'll tell you all about my placement some other time. Right now I'm going to tell you a little story that made my day. A while ago a French woman added my on Facebook, she's a relative of mine. Not very close as her mother was my great grandmother’s cousin. I've spoken to her a bit and she met my dad, grandfather uncle and great grandmother when my dad was about 18. Yesterday she found some photos of them when they were visiting her in France years ago and sent them to me. So here is a photo of my dad, uncle and grandfather (in that order)

 And then a photo of Claire on the left, my dad the tall one, my grandfather with the breard, my great grandmother is the old lady and my uncle is the one to the right

5th of November

So here we go again, the second 5th of November I've celebrated in my life. It's been a fun day. I went to IKEA with Connor and Dan. I needed some mirrors, a coat hanger, a laundry basket, and a new wardrobe thing for my room. I ended up getting everything apart from the wardrobe, but instead I got some new shelves. I’m planning to steal the one jack has in his room, so it’s OK. All in all I'm pretty happy with the stuff I got. Photos will come the moment I get it all set up in my room. After dinner (lee made us Norwegian meatballs =D) we went to the firework display at the Musselburgh racecourse. It's amazing how much I love shiny things that explode. The fireworks were pretty good and were accompanied by music. After (not because of my awesome coat) freezing my ass off we went home and just in time for me to see the last few acts of X-factor. I was also pretty excited when I found out that my camera has a "fireworks" mode, so the photos were really good 

Remember, remember the fifth of November, gunpowder, treason and plot, I see no reason why gunpowder treason should ever be forgot.

My mind just sent me on the biggest guilt trip for not updating my blog about my extremely (un)interesting life. On Tuesday I went uptown after university and bought myself a lovely new coat and some shitty white shoes for when I go on my placement. After dying of stress I finally found the post office. Turns out it was hiding inside WHSmith. Silly post office. I was planning to sneak into McDonalds for a nice Big Mac, but then I bumped into Tasha, Amy, Lana, Natalie and Ellen who dragged me to Cape (ok, maybe I didn’t get dragged). Zander works at Cape so we had a lot of fun complaining about the shitty service and the terrible food. We also stole all the tomato sauce. On our way home we met a crowd of girls from our hall that was on their way to see Paranormal activity 3. Ellen and I went with them and got scared to death by the film. Then after a night with a wee bit of gossip with Mel and no sleep because I was scared of the dark I suffered through another day at university and went down to Edinburgh. I've pretty much been doing nothing since I went back to Connors flat. We've been watching Scary movie 4 and Paul, and I've cried my heart out watching Million dollar baby and Brokeback Mountain. Tomorrow it's the 5th of November (oh wait, it's actually today..) so we're going to watch the fireworks. Safe to say that I'm excited.

Halloween

Goodbye October and hello November. My plans of being a ninja for Halloween went down the drain and I went for something scarier. The plan was to not go to any of the party's and just stay in my room, so that when people asked me where I was my plan was to go "oh I was a ninja, it was just a very good costume". What I did end up doing was go in all black clothes and with sucky makeup. I'm impressed with all the good costumes the folks had. I wish that I had planed it a bit better so that I could end up with something awesome as well. I woke up this morning with a sore head and hake up EVERYWHERE, so I decided to wait until after lunch to go to lectures. I have stuff to do, and because royal mail is on strike I need to go into the cash office and explain that “no I can't pay you yet, I just got my funding letter”. I guess that's it. Like always, here are some photos from last night