Hello all

So it's been a week since the days of sitting around all day with nothing to do, not a care in the world. Back to reality. This week has been pretty laid back, actually. With only 2 classes a day, and 3 on Friday, it's been pretty chill. I've had a lot of time to get studying for finals in 2 weeks, but unfortunately I have found it hard to get a significant amount of studying done. I am just not in the mood to study and pretty much anything distracts me. But I have been studying all day today and a lot yesterday, so all is well.

So the week before Thanksgiving break my phone decided that it was going to slowly start dying. The buttons quit working one by one and then finally quit on the drive home from school, and is now dead. So I had to use Mark's old phone for the week, but he didn't have the charger, so I had to use Mom's. Not a problem until i get back to school and have no charger. It was fine, though, b/c there was a girl at school with an old iPhone that she was going to give to me... about a month ago. Then she didn't see her parents when she went home, for some reason, so she couldn't get the phone from them blah blah blah. Whatever, a free iPhone is worth waiting for. I sent her a text on Thursday (thanksgiving) making sure that she would remember to bring the phone back to school with her. I get a text Sunday from her saying that her dad already sold it. COOL! So now when I get back to school I have to get a phone asap. I ended up getting the iPhone 4, and yes, it is awesome. It was just about 100% more expensive that the original plan that I had. Oh well I now have a working phone and her parents have more money.

That was Tuesday. Wednesday my computer decided to die. I knew it was coming because it had been giving me hints for a while now that it wasn't going to make it much longer. So during Physio lecture on Wednesday it froze, so I shut it off and restarted it. However, it did not restart. So I left at the start of Micro (the next class), went home, pulled the hard drive, put it in my external case, went back to school, rented a laptop for a week, and got back in time for the latter half of Micro. I know I'm pretty awesome. So now I have another job over winter break: find a new computer at a reasonable price.

Other than that it's been a pretty awesome week. Even those events weren't too bad. I mean I have a new phone, a new computer, and all my data. All is well. Also, it snowed an alleged 8.5" Friday night/Saturday morning. Best thing ever. I went to Jenna's Friday night after coming back from the gym at 7:00 (where I had been since 4:00 climbing, running, and lifting). I got back to my apartment at 7:00 when there was not a single snowflake on the ground. I went over to Jenna's at like 10:00 when there was like a bagillion snowflakes on the ground. Now, I love snow. Love it. So this made me very happy. How it had snowed like 5 inches in 3 hours is beyond me, but it was awesome. The roads were super sketchy and I could barely see out of my car windows, but it was awesome. Also, the next day I was going to park my car and came across a girl who looked like she had done a 360 in the street and slid into the curb, almost into the stop sign. She was in an SUV, which was only rear wheel drive and therefore sucked in the snow. She had no idea if the car had 4 wheel drive and actually pushed the cigarette lighter b/c she thought it was a switch to turn on 4wd. No wonder she was almost driving into the stop sign. So I stopped and helped her get her car out and sent her on her marry way, although I feel like a similar situation would happen shortly down the road for her.

Tomorrow I have a meeting for Bienester, a program that I will be most likely doing this summer that consists of a 4 week stay in Ecuador working with doctors. It is different from my trips to Honduras, though, b/c it's not rural clinics. It is work in hospitals and even scrubbing in for surgeries. I also heard from past participants that we could get the chance to do some suturing in the ER. Good thing I had that suturing clinic. As long as these people's wounds are like scalpel cuts on frozen pig's feet, I'm totally going to rock it. It does sound really awesome so hopefully I do get to go. I am also the "president" I guess you could call it. I am in charge of setting up the trip and basically doing everything for it. I also heard that the person in charge gets a discount, although I need to find out more about that.

Here's a picture of a cat licking a snowcone. 

See ya!!