First week of nursing school, DONE!
Well, not really, because my brain is buzzing. I think everybody is like this except the high IQ ones.
Information overloaded. I need a long train but not a truck in my mind, really.
Until now, haven't figure out what is what. But I am sure it will get better soon.
The new school is so much smaller than before. But I love it. I live at the dorm now. What did I do most this week? Other than long-time classes, I always went upstairs to my dorm and took a nap. And then I came back downstairs to have another class. How convenient and awesome it is!
What's nursing school?
Nursing school is__
at least 2-hour lecture, 3-hour lab
weird words
thick books
full schedule
exams
no fun things on calendar
These are the answers from my week 1. Sounds dramatic? Maybe so.
But I do like the pathophysiology and my labs. My health assessment lab just has five students, which is awesome! I get more attention then. :P Just kidding. But it IS better way for me to learn. Actually I just found out today after class. I realized that I asked questions, in ENGLISH!!! which I have never done in a large group of people. Thanks to Chinese education system, we are not used to question everything and teachers. Under the same system for over 20 years, my brain probably has already become a robot.
Trying to figure out what I should do and how I should do. :) It will get better. ^^
Friday, January 18, 2013
Sunday, January 6, 2013
Last day in Silver City
Today was absolutely fabulous!
The dinner at 1zero6 of Silver City filled me up soooooooo much and my stomach extraordinary happy. It really doesn't matter that my buttons of my T-shirt were gonna pop out. Can't resist the yummy, delicious, awesome, and mouthwatering food!!!!! Rempa Ayam as mince of chicken opened our stomach. :P Jo ordered three different entrees: peces de jengibre (salmon), khmer krom pork, and jungle curry (chicken). I ate all my stuff and plus dessert!!! I don't usually have dessert after the entree, but this time, couldn't miss out the oaxacan chocolate torte with bailey's irish creme!!!! It just melted in my mouth and I have no other words to express how good it was! My eyes might pop out, my mouth kept watering, and my hands couldn't stop sending that dessert to my mouth! It sounds very exaggerating, doesn't it? BUT IT IS TRUE! Come and have a try. You might be more exaggerate than me. :P The chef travels different places and learns something new and comes back to cook from Friday to Sunday. Such an unique restaurant.
My last dinner at Silver City, my friends Jo and Eric treated me so well!! Well, they have been treating me SUPER SUPER well all the time. I alway get spoiled by them.
Eric took me to have trail ride today. It is an unforgettable experience. Before riding the horse, I was worried that I wouldn't have a whole piece of body to go back to Illinois tomorrow. I always imagine that horses go crazy and kick me back to China (teehee, maybe I could save one-way ticket), or horses won't listen to you. You know, they are thousands of pounds.
HOWEVER!
The horse I rode was such a sweetheart. Her name is Dancer, from Canada. Maybe I am from another country also. Dancer knew how I feel and could understand me...Oh, wait. Canadians speak English too...Well, both of us are away from home then. Haha. So we had three-hour trail ride. It was such a good experience. At the very beginning, I was still too chicken to control the horse. I guess I looked very frozen with the bridle at the same spot with sleepy Dancer. Finally, I figured everybody was ready to take off and I couldn't be awkwardly staying there anymore. Well, Dancer started to follow other horses anyway. :P I think that might be a good idea. Haha..She knows more than me..SO...gradually, I fell in love with Dancer who didn't go crazy or whatever she was not supposed to do. Riding horse is pretty fun except horses are still huge..Life is like riding a horse. If you don't even try to use the bridle, how are you supposed to know which direction you are going? You are the one control the horse. hmmm..trying to sound very smart, but I feel like it doesn't make sense..at least in English.. it probably makes more sense than that in Chinese..:P
Last night, Jo and I talked for a while. This is one of my favorite parts of this trip. Talking to her makes me feel like I am more artistic and smart. :P Actually, it is the time to get to know each other more. I am so happy.
Tomorrow will be Eric's 4th time to go to Tucson airport in one month...It is just super nice and sweet of them! Can't say any other words. because I am running out of vocabularies to express my thankfulness and heartwarming moments.
Goodbye Silver City. I will be back, for sure. ^.^
The dinner at 1zero6 of Silver City filled me up soooooooo much and my stomach extraordinary happy. It really doesn't matter that my buttons of my T-shirt were gonna pop out. Can't resist the yummy, delicious, awesome, and mouthwatering food!!!!! Rempa Ayam as mince of chicken opened our stomach. :P Jo ordered three different entrees: peces de jengibre (salmon), khmer krom pork, and jungle curry (chicken). I ate all my stuff and plus dessert!!! I don't usually have dessert after the entree, but this time, couldn't miss out the oaxacan chocolate torte with bailey's irish creme!!!! It just melted in my mouth and I have no other words to express how good it was! My eyes might pop out, my mouth kept watering, and my hands couldn't stop sending that dessert to my mouth! It sounds very exaggerating, doesn't it? BUT IT IS TRUE! Come and have a try. You might be more exaggerate than me. :P The chef travels different places and learns something new and comes back to cook from Friday to Sunday. Such an unique restaurant.
My last dinner at Silver City, my friends Jo and Eric treated me so well!! Well, they have been treating me SUPER SUPER well all the time. I alway get spoiled by them.
Eric took me to have trail ride today. It is an unforgettable experience. Before riding the horse, I was worried that I wouldn't have a whole piece of body to go back to Illinois tomorrow. I always imagine that horses go crazy and kick me back to China (teehee, maybe I could save one-way ticket), or horses won't listen to you. You know, they are thousands of pounds.
HOWEVER!
The horse I rode was such a sweetheart. Her name is Dancer, from Canada. Maybe I am from another country also. Dancer knew how I feel and could understand me...Oh, wait. Canadians speak English too...Well, both of us are away from home then. Haha. So we had three-hour trail ride. It was such a good experience. At the very beginning, I was still too chicken to control the horse. I guess I looked very frozen with the bridle at the same spot with sleepy Dancer. Finally, I figured everybody was ready to take off and I couldn't be awkwardly staying there anymore. Well, Dancer started to follow other horses anyway. :P I think that might be a good idea. Haha..She knows more than me..SO...gradually, I fell in love with Dancer who didn't go crazy or whatever she was not supposed to do. Riding horse is pretty fun except horses are still huge..Life is like riding a horse. If you don't even try to use the bridle, how are you supposed to know which direction you are going? You are the one control the horse. hmmm..trying to sound very smart, but I feel like it doesn't make sense..at least in English.. it probably makes more sense than that in Chinese..:P
Tomorrow will be Eric's 4th time to go to Tucson airport in one month...It is just super nice and sweet of them! Can't say any other words. because I am running out of vocabularies to express my thankfulness and heartwarming moments.
Goodbye Silver City. I will be back, for sure. ^.^
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
First day of 2013!!! HAAAAAPPPY NEEEEEW YEEEEEAAAAR PEOPLE!!
So I had my first Christmas in this country, with my wonderful friends. Now, I had my first new year with same wonderful friends. It was simple, but enjoyable.
When I got up yesterday, China already entered 2013. I got to know that most of my friends back home went to count down in Shenzhen from weibo. Weibo is a popular social network, kind of like facebook. They left me message and told me they were going to have fun or some sort of the stuff. Then I thought,"what am I gonna do today to end my 2012?"
Eric was making waffle, however, the machine didn't work out well. Everybody was confused by the waffle machine, which didn't have any problems before when it was in Illinois. Maybe the machine is not used to the high elevation weather. So we went out for brunch. It was snowing off and on yesterday. I absolutely LOOOOOOOOVE the snow! Forgive me, I am not from a cave, but I am from a city where never snows. Even though I have been here for two years and five months, every snow is new snow to me. So I wandered around the cute little downtown again. The beautiful snow stopped me on the road. I might look like a girl insane of taking pictures on the street, laughing by herself, catching the snow, and completely lost in the snow. The picture below was from yesterday. It is the Silver City Museum. I couldn't really take a good picture of the snow by my phone, but my memories were there.
So I had my first Christmas in this country, with my wonderful friends. Now, I had my first new year with same wonderful friends. It was simple, but enjoyable.
When I got up yesterday, China already entered 2013. I got to know that most of my friends back home went to count down in Shenzhen from weibo. Weibo is a popular social network, kind of like facebook. They left me message and told me they were going to have fun or some sort of the stuff. Then I thought,"what am I gonna do today to end my 2012?"
Eric was making waffle, however, the machine didn't work out well. Everybody was confused by the waffle machine, which didn't have any problems before when it was in Illinois. Maybe the machine is not used to the high elevation weather. So we went out for brunch. It was snowing off and on yesterday. I absolutely LOOOOOOOOVE the snow! Forgive me, I am not from a cave, but I am from a city where never snows. Even though I have been here for two years and five months, every snow is new snow to me. So I wandered around the cute little downtown again. The beautiful snow stopped me on the road. I might look like a girl insane of taking pictures on the street, laughing by herself, catching the snow, and completely lost in the snow. The picture below was from yesterday. It is the Silver City Museum. I couldn't really take a good picture of the snow by my phone, but my memories were there.
AND!!! I made my first little snowman yesterday!! I made it on the top of Eric's van. Well, it kinda looked ugly...BUT how excited! I had never made a snowman before. It was really...cold.....:P BUT FUN!!! This really makes me think that I should let me future kids (if any) live the places where snow. That's so much fun with seasons. Colorful fall, white winter, green spring, and hot summer...just kidding, maybe...humm.icecream summer. Anyway, after walked in the snow and touched the snow, I went to Javalina coffee shop to look for Eric and Dr. Murphy. So camarel latte after the snow, actually, it should be having hot latte and watching the snow dancing outside of the coffee shop. Such a lovely time!!
Later evening, we went to a cute restaurant to have New Year Eve dinner. It was so delicious!!! The chocolate mousse was the highlight for me. It was SO SO GOOD!!!! You can tell how much I like chocolate... :P
After we got home, we watched the Doctor Who Christmas special episode and Christmas story. It was fun. :)
It was superduper sunny today! 1/1/2013!! I didn't step outside at all. I read a little bit before the brunch..and then chose to take a nap on the New Year Day! Shame on me...but it was so cozy...so that's why I am still up now and typing this blog while others are all sleeping now. @.@
Other than my lazy first day, something happened.It was superduper sunny today! 1/1/2013!! I didn't step outside at all. I read a little bit before the brunch..and then chose to take a nap on the New Year Day! Shame on me...but it was so cozy...so that's why I am still up now and typing this blog while others are all sleeping now. @.@
Look at the beautiful bright Christmas tree. It was our first time to cut our own Christmas tree. It did look barren than the perfect trees at the store, but it was still nice. It was fun to cut out own tree actually, but more work for sure. It was Eric and Jo's first time to do this also. They were so nice to wait for me to come from Illinois and cut and decorate the tree together. They always make my heart warm and melt.
We put up the tree on the Christmas Eve, but it fell by itself on the New Year Day...So tree, you just couldn't wait to come down??!! Everything went strange..waffle machine didn't do its job and neither did the Christmas tree. The tree came down while we were all watching TV and talking. It came down without any thinking, straight on the new hardwood floor. Water and ornaments were all over...Many ornaments broke, so did our hearts. They are JoAnne's 41-year collection. :(( Sorry. Other than this, I really can't think of anything.
Good thing was that we were not having dinner at that time. If not, it could be worse.
So this was what happened on our first day of 2013. BUT, I think 2013 will be like the broken glasses, blinking every piece at every corner. It will be a good year. It will be unforgettable year, at least, our first day is, but in a special way.
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