Medical students NOT in sweat pants

This is going to be my last blog update until after finals mainly because I doubt that I will be doing anything much more exciting than I did this weekend or last. We had the formal on Friday night and it was a really nice event. It was at a venue called the Assembly Rooms and everyone was dressed up really nice. It was amazing how nice you can actually get medical school students to look when they are not studying, and In addition to all the medical student a good majority of the professors showed up as well. There was a student speaker, a professor speaker, and a slide show.

Dr. Mark Williams,our biochemistry, professor who is Welsh was the professor who was chosen to do the honors, and our other professor Dr. Brian Curry (anatomy prof) introduced him (he's British). Apparently the Welsh and the Brits are not huge fans of each other in the general UK population and Curry and Williams are no different, (they actually really like each other and just make fun of each other non-stop and give the other a hard time). They each believe that there subject biochem or anatomy is the more important one during the first term, which they told us in the first week and continuosly thoughout the term. It is definitly a hard choice because they've added embryology to our anatomy course so technically it is worth more credits than biochem, but anatomy is pure memorization where as biochem is memorization, understanding, and application. Anyways back to the formal, Dr. Curry got up and started harping on Williams about when they met down in Grenada and how there friendship has progressed.

Williams got up with his usually Hello FOLKS, he always says folks, and his most famous phrase is "this is important for medical student, folks" or "settle down folks" either way we here it multiple times a lecture, and I don't think he gets that we can't stop laughing every time he says folks. He started with a heart-warming speach about being in medicine and then preceeded to show us embarassing pictures of all the faculty or in some cases just baby pictures.


After the slide show there was dancing in which a few of our professors actually made it to the dance floor and I'm sure all the pictures are wandering around the web by now.

Last weekend I made it down to the coast for some authentic Fish and Chips and it was amazing! I will definitely go back there again!

Study mode is upon me as finals are 3 weeks away, I look forward to hearing how you are all doing, and I will update you as soon as exciting things start happening again!

Pink, Bolton, Halloween, oh my!

I've really been slacking on updating my blog these past few weeks, so I'm going to try to make up for it now and let you know what I've been up to sense Dublin. The weekend after I went to Dublin the we had a school sponsored event called the Pink Party (and all the money we raised went to Breast Cancer awareness), but the best part about the evening is that everyone was wearing pink, even the guys! The event was at a club in downtown Newcastle, and the first person I saw when I walked in the door was Professor Gillateux (our histology professor). The faculty and administration here really do try to come to our events, which I think is nice and really shows that they support us. We all had an amazing night, and there was another girl there who I share a birthday with and she came in wearing that fabulous pink birthday hat. We decided to share that hat throughout the evening!
This is stephanie and I before the pink party!

I've stolen the birthday hat, and am proudly wearing it!

The next friday night I went to see Michael Bolton in concert, yes you heard me right Michael Bolton, and it was a lot of fun. I went with my flatmate (Haley) and we were probably the youngest people there but we still had a blast. We met this really nice local couple before the concert who told us all about living in Newcastle, and where we had to go to get real fish and chips. They also helped us with pronouciation of certian words: Gosforth is gos-futh, metro is met-roe 2 syllables, hiya - hi, and other greeting phrases that i could barely undertand and just nodded my head to.

It took me a long time to decide what to be for halloween, mainly because I hadn't dressed up for halloween for years. Our school hosted a charity event halloween party called party tyne. Our muscial band for the evening consisted of 2 of our professors which was hallarious. I never thought I would see histo Harry playing the drums, and Dr. Holmes on the guitar and lead singer. It was an amuzing night to say the least. At one point they got a bunch of us on stage (including me) to sing Mustang Sally, which I learned while being on stage. The band played a variety of music, and it was just nice to see every one in their costumes. I finally decided to be a cat, but my favorite costume of the night was the oompah loompahs they pulled it off so well, and it was very creative!

This term is going by so quickly, we have 5 weeks until finals and then we are off for a month! I plan on doing a little more exploring in this area before finals, and get that picture of a constable. I did see one the other day, but did not have my camera on me... I hope you are all doing well! Miss you lots!