Cold

Officially the coldest weather I've ever been in.  My family and I were once in teeth degrees in Mammoth years back, but this is a different story.

A screen shot from my weather.  Tustin.. 70 degrees.  Poznan 10.  Ha!

Weekend and Snow

Did very well on my quiz today.  slept for a few hours then went to the gym, not need to make food and do some more reading then finalize my polish studying for that quiz tomorrow.  

First snow of season

At The Lizard King

food was not very good, but it was fun.  similar to a polish hard rock

cafe that reminded me of something my mom and sister would enjoy

wine with pepsi

it snowed most of the day today

SNOW

woke up to snow everywhere.

pretty cool


how long until i get sick of it?

over/under?

1 month/30 days

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!

Busy Busy

Its been a busy couple weeks and will be until the time i head back to california.  Some tests are coming up along with the other weekly quizzes so its keeping my blogging and anything other than studying pretty limited.  

Last friday i went bowling.  they have one bowling alley here in Poznan and it is a hybrid between a club, bowling alley, and pool hall.  I watched a ducks game this weekend, nice own goal corey perry.  

Today was the first day of snow!  It has been coming down for a couple hours now.  It was raining for much of the morning and due to the wetness it is isnt really piling up.  I think this is the point where it begins snowing A LOT.  This weekend will be filled with studying.  There is this new school library down the street from me which has been useful.  Unfortunately it closes at 3pm on saturday.  We also lost power in the dorms for a few hours two days ago.  I just got into bed to study biophysics and the power went out.  i waited for a half hour for it to come back on, it didnt so i figured it was a good excuse to just go to bed.  

Histology class awaits

Supporting the local football Team, Lech Poznan

Friends (L-R: Rahul, Gosia, Ola)

We watch football together

Focused

The Group

(Can you find me?)

all these pictures were from Ola, gave her my camera all night, maybe I'll do that more since girls are better at pictures than boys

Dzien Dobry

Good day today.  Lots of class, lots of studying, got a lot done!  Have a histo test in december and an embryology test as well.  mixed in the gym today too.  also got an email saying all students need to present stool samples.  3 cups you need to get from the pharmacy and you need to do 1 sample 3 consecutive weeks.... um what???

how strange.. not sure what they need to look for in ALL students.  that's going to be a shitty job...

maybe ill have a bunch of jalapenos before....

biophysics then much needed sleep!!

ive begun to feel more awake with less hours of sleep each night, maybe good, maybe bad.

Bed

Nothing too much to report.  Did purchase a bed topper from a friend for 40zl.  It's almost like an entire new mattress as it's like 4 inches thick!  It has been a dream sleeping on it.  Today I made some food and I purchased some "Nachos" to put in it.  They were actually jalapenos with a weird name, but I needed some spice.  Dennis has a sweet America shirt that has this huge eagle on it and a ton of R W and B.  A bunch of studying today.  During PE these two guys play table tennis very well also so it has been fun playing against some competition.  The equipment they have is all really great too.

Dennis with a glimpse of his shirt and matching scarf

My life during the week

Nachos aka Jalapenos