Hello MTV, welcome to my crib

Despite the fact that I have an exam on Tuesday, I just can't seem to be able to revise. I was so desperate today that I actually cleaned my room. You blog readers will actually get some photos of my room now that it doesn’t look bombed anymore. My plan was to get up early today and be very productive and work my way through the cardiovascular system and cells. However, people decided to drink yesterday and the noise made me go out of my room and join the party. It was Lorraine’s birthday and the Norwegian birthday song was very much appreciated even though it must have been painful to listen to my singing. I made up my mind that I would not drink, but I still stayed up until 3 with the girls. We also got our nurse uniforms yesterday. You'll get a photo of that the moment my face decides to actually look nice on the photos I'm taking. So here is my room in A. K. Davidsons halls 5th floor east side

And here are some photos of the kitchen

and finally some photos of last night

Placements

On Saturday I ended up going out clubbing again, but it ended up as a quiet night since the fishbowls made me go all helicopter head. Then when I woke up on Sunday I started my X-men marathon that was briefly interrupted by cake on the 7th floor.  Yesterday I went for basic life support at Forth valley hospital before I got on the bus to Edinburgh. Today I'm a happy panda. I was finally told where I'm going on my first placements. St Ninians Health Centre. It's a GP office and I'm super excited. CBA writing any more =D

Study studa stuka stdka sodka vodka

Despite my serious plans of revising yesterday it just did not happen. After my lecture on communication I took a nap and woke up and almost died of boredom. After walking around wondering if I would be more entertained if I jumped out of the window, some of the girls mentioned that they were going out clubbing. I quickly got my dress, heels and makeup on and after a few drinks we were ready to go. I'd love to tell yous all about my night, but I think photos are a better idea. That goes faster so that I can roll up in bed and try to recover. 

Just a waste of time

I decided to study today. I had no lectures and no plans. However the internet didn’t let me. I got distracted by Gary tank commander, Facebook, funny cats and just internet in general. I did however take some photos of me pretending to start studying. I tried to take a shower to see if it would help, but after a traumatic experience with the lights turning off and a spider trying to eat me I simply gave up and decided to Skype a bit with Sandra and Tanni. Apart from that I’ve been eating chocolate. A lot of chocolate. For those of you that doesn’t know I have an exam the 25^th of October about SO MUCH STUFF. 

Clinical skills

This week has so far been a very practical week. On Monday I had a lesson on Therapeutic management of violence and aggression. Basically what we did was learn what to do if we get attacked by a patient and how to avoid being attacked. We learned some fancy moves on how to loosen someone’s grip without in anyway hurting them that were quite funny. However I'm not sure I'll remember the "six steps" if a patient tries to strangle me. The coolest thing we learned was that we are most likely to be attacked by a 75 year old woman. Yesterday I had a lesson on moving and handling. The most important thing i learned was how I under no circumstance can lift a patient. I got a go at being the patient, and I could really feel the difference between the different methods used when it came to moving a patient. It really got me thinking about how careful you have to be. I still almost rammed Lorraine into the headboard of the bed when we used the slide sheets (not on purpose of course) 

At night we went to the students union to watch Scotland – Spain game. I have to say that Spain crushed us, but I still had a lot of fun. The union was filled with super enthusiastic football fans and I have to say that they got me involved as well. I was a good girl and only had two beers and left right after the game. I wish I could say the same about the people living in my hall. While making myself a night snack the one after the other started rolling in to the kitchen drunk. The best entertainment ever is Ellen with her gymnastic moves. Priceless

Today we had a lesson called clinical skills. It has been by far the most interesting lecture so far. The best part was when we learned how to take someone’s blood pressure. It’s not as easy as it looks. My blood pressure is 100 over 60, so I have quite a low blood pressure.  I need to practise more on taking other peoples blood pressure though, because according to me Lorraine does not have a pulse and Laura is barely alive. We also feed each other. We took turns on being blindfolded and then the other person was the nurse feeding us some yoghurt. It was weird being in that situation, but I now see how uncomfortable it must be if the nurse doesn’t tell you that the food is coming and what food you’re getting. We also changed sheets and learned how to properly wash our hands. 

I got to run now. We’re watching a movie in the TV room =D

A little bit of home

The weird thing about living in Scotland is that I have several homes. "I'm going home" can mean Stirling, Edinburgh or Oslo. For all of my Norwegian readers I have good news I'm going home, Oslo home that is the 20th of December. I'm expecting a queue of people on the airport to line up with all my Christmas presents, just so you know. It's going to be good going home and just be with my family again. Mom, dad and my little brother Tobias are going on a holiday and coming back the 24th, so for the first time my sis and I will make Christmas dinner. I'm pretty sure we'll end up drinking too much wine, burning the food and ordering pizza. We're also going to buy the Christmas three and decorate the house. Mom and dad are going to get a big surprise when they get home! Apart from being excited about going home I'm back at Stirling after being in Edinburgh for 4 days. After going shopping on Saturday, Connor took me out to the Filling Station. Since I'm such a proper blogger, of course I took photos of the food.

A little bit of shopping

Stirling seems to have a needle fetish. They certainly love sticking me with them. After getting stabbed in the arm with my hepatitis vaccine I got on the bus to Edinburgh to spend the rest of the week with Connor. Yesterday I went shoe shopping. My favourite hobby. I got a lovely new pair (and with a 20% student discount I entered happy mode). Despite Connor's warnings I let the house thinking it would not rain. It was rather silly of me, I must admit. This is after all Scotland. Luckily it didn’t rain for long, so I could take some lovely photos of my favourite city on the planet earth. 

Take me out

Finally the episode of Take Me Out where Nora and I were part of the audience is here. In Norwegian the show is called Dagens Mann and it translates to Man of the day. I'm quite happy that you can barely see us once or twice during the show, since the times you actually see my face I want to die. If you want to see the episode the link is -here- and you can read the post from when I was there -here-

Yesterday some of the girls from my floor went down to watch Scary movie. After laughing our ass of for an hour and a half we all ran upstairs to get our blankets and pyjamas so that we could sleep in the TV room. I backed out at 12:30 and decided that my bed is more comfortable than the chairs or the floor. I think it was a good idea since the girls that did sleep over got yelled at by the morning porter. I love university. I’m off until Monday, so I’m going to clean my room, shower and pack to go down to Edinburgh tomorrow. 

yar har fiddle dee dee

After bugging Connor for ages, he finally got a haircut! =D I should probably get one as well, since I have so many split ends. Right now however, I'm not bothered at all. It takes ages and I'm not in the mood for some stranger to be fiddling around with my hair. The barber was called Hydra and the woman that cut his hair would not shut up. I don't think I've ever heard a hairdresser talk so much in my life. Tonight we're all going out to a Chinese restaurant called the Dragons Way for Lee's birthday.
Since it’s the blogger thing to do, here are the before and after photos: