Studying Med in the White and Red: Almost Done

So the weather has been pretty good lately which has been quite nice. It was actually nearly 80 last week and should be around 80 this week. It only took about a week or so for the plants to bloom entirely, quite a spectacle. The last 2 weeks was spent getting prepared for the dreaded biophysics final exam, on which I did well. Each of the last 2 weekends we went to a concert in the Eskulap (dorm) club. The first was this dubstep DJ named ….Pavilion. For those of you that aren't familiar with dubstep, it is basically the sound of the deceptacons transforming but amplify that by 1000 and add some breath sucking bass. It was actually pretty awesome. Fil and I had never been to one of those shows before so it was fun to get into that scene a bit. The week prior a bunch of us went to an ATB concert at the Arena down the street from the school. ATB is a DJ who is ranked about 5th in the world. That show, in comparison to those at club Eskulap, was enormous. Valerie and I met some sweet polish people and spent a good while hanging and drinking with them when we got tired of jumping around. A couple days ago we all went to see Beardyman. He was the guy that Fil, Mikloj, and I went to Warsaw to see in October and it was funny that he was playing not only in Poland again, but in our school dorm club.

Speaking of beards, I have been growing my playoff beard. No, I'm not growing it for the hockey playoffs because the Ducks are out and I don't support any other team, but it is the playoffs for the school year. We have our anatomy second and last exam next week, along with our histology practical. After those are done, we have 2 weeks before the histology final and that is basically it. There is light at the end of the tunnel. It shouldn't be too difficult as the long hours I spent during the year is definitely paying off. It is also pretty sweet that the hours of light during the day is different than I am accustomed to. The sun rises around 0415 and it gets dark at 2130.

On Friday, Michal came into my room and asked if I wanted to be in a school video. I said sure and threw on one of the wild shirts I had joined. It is basically a promotional video for incoming students. They filmed us doing various things from simply walking to studying in a dorm room. It was quite funny when they filmed us studying. My grabbed my friend's anatomy book and flipped it open and they guy started filming. Of course I had flipped it open to the Levator Ani muscles. The anal muscles that form the floor/base of the pelvis. As their name suggests, on contraction they raise the pelvic floor and are part of the anus. So there will be me studying anal muscles in the video. After that they wanted us to go to the Rynek for some more filming. I was quite tired and wasn't too into that but then they said that if we went they would buy us beer so mind quickly changed. We walked around for a while and then got a beer at one of the outside restaurants. Later we went to this other bar where they were giving free beers to those who attended this conference. We didn't go to the conference but the red wrist bands we had on said otherwise. Post free beer we got sushi and basically called it a night since I hadn't slept for a couple days for that biophysics exam. During the shots down at the Rynek I changed shirts to my Lakers jersey. I had a sweatshirt on but had it unzipped enough to see the top half so it would be easily recognizable to those who knew.

I had a Polish test today and it went quite good and later a biology quiz.

month ago

last week.. pretty cool

typical Tim dinner, colorful

Rynek

Outside patios open

Michal getting interviewed during the filming of our video, funny

the camera crew

Michal and clock tower

Filip

Yum

In the Men's bathroom

Toilet paper?

"I am an old lesbian"

In the 'old movie theater bar'

Free drinks

Cool fountain

sorry fil

Fil and Ola when the power went out

Dinner with the crew

Ola tackling the Bunny, too bad it was hard plastic

Christer dancing with a creepy old man

Before ATB

Drink tent at ATB

Asbjorn

ATB

Polish couple that were hilarious. Val and I hungout with them quite a bit. I think here he is saying, "fucking Iphone.. I have a nokia!" He was a bit jealous.