Thanksgiving

First of all, I'm thankful of my friends, family, and our health!

Another week done, boy do these fly by.  I did well on biophysics today, they changed the syllabus, again, and didn't tell anyone so my partner and I studied the wrong chapter.  They let us take the quiz for the one we studied for and we did the lab of the other.  They have changed it numerous times, and each week people study the wrong thing.  The next few weeks before I go back to the states we have 3 biophysics quizzes, 2 chemistry quizzes, embryology exam, histology quiz/exam, latin quiz, polish quiz.  I will be busy!

Thanksgiving was cool.  Definitely not nearly as great as hanging with the family like I have done for the last 25 years!  So in that sense it was a bummer being away but our school did have this huge formal dinner so there wasn't a lack of food, but not as good as the homemade stuff.

The weather has been below freezing most of this week.  We have gotten small amounts of snow the last couple days.  Nothing too substantial but definitely some flurries.  It seems like it won't get warmer until March sometime.

Friday has consisted of reading over the next chapter of biophysics and writing down all these chemistry structures I need to study this weekend.  I also watched part of Live Free Die Hard with Dennis and now watched the Ducks add to their losing streak.  I'll hopefully get up early tomorrow and spend most of the day in the library.

Lookin good Dennis and Fil

Thanksgiving dinner

More Thanksgiving

Classy

The weekly photograph of Biophysics.  Some snow not too visible on the roof.  

I also learned that the flowers in front of that tree in the middle of the grass is the remnants of a memorial for The President and the others that went down in the plane.  The entire lawn was previous filled with candles and flowers.  Some still bring flowers here.  

During anatomy, we were learning about the scalp and with the accents of the professors people weren't sure what they were talking about.  To clarify, the professor in lab said, "scalp, like scalping the Indians."  I thought it was very ironic because that was Thursday, Thanksgiving.  

Highlight of the month was talking with my family over skype tonight.  Unfortunately I couldn't be at the Contreras' to join in the festivities but I definitely am there in spirit!