today, i was as busy as a bumble bee..
ok, corny..
so my day started with heading for practicals..we were supposed to prepare for SLE cos alexander borisovich was gonna ask us questions about it later today..
since i came back home quite late from the park outing, which by the way was awesome!!! we went all the way down to the river and back up again..talk about burning calories, i musta walked at least 6 kilometers yesterday..seriously..it was a very very looooooooong walk..and the wild flowers that grow abundantly there are soooo PRETTY!!!
yeah, so back to the topic..as i was saying, i was burnt out after the park outing so i slept and got up a bit earlier to prepare for SLE..went to the hospital, chit-chatted with the doctors and i have to tell you, that i have discovered yet another way of drinking coffee..
the steps :
1) get a mug
2) add your usual amount of coffee grains plus 2 cubes sugar
3) add hot water
4) add a dash of cognac for the extra effect
REALLY!!!!! COGNAC WITH COFFEE!!!!!
wow, if that helps to boost your spirit everyday and keeps you running like a clockwork mouse, heck i’d take coffee with cognac any day!!!!
i shud try it perhaps…wonder if it works with vodka though..must ask 2moro, hahaha..maybe i’d get a mug too, hahahahahaha…
so after that, we checked out a few patients, after which me and xiang bin sat and discussed about SLE while waiting for the teacher to return..
and then all of a sudden, andrevna pops in at 1115am..
andrevna : would you like to join the conference on nephrology?
2 inostrani medstudents : errrr…wat time?
andrevna : now, 1115…
2 inostrani medstudents : errr….where??
andrevna : in semashko hospital..it will be very interesting..you shud come..we can discuss about it 2moro..
2 inostrani medstudents : ooookkkkaaayyyy..how now?? aaahhh, davai ony!!!
so we quickly packed our stuff, said goodbye to alex and off we went, 2 medstudents and 4 doctors to semashko..surprisingly it was a very short journey and we were there by 1130..
the conference..cant say that i enjoyed it much..naturally it was all in russian..the 1st one by that guy, i have no idea wat it was about - partly becos we missed the first part and partly due to his unflattering drone, something about peritoneal dialysis versus hemodialysis bla the bla bla bla..
the 2nd lecture was more interesting though, by a lady on UTIs which was quite informative if it were not for the fact that she was rushing becos there wasnt enuff time..and the 3rd one was on anemia which i didnt sit thru, it was freaking boring..
so there we were for 2-something hours, listening quite intently to those lecturers while all the other big-shot doctors were curiously glancing at the both of us furiously scribbling something in our notebooks..the language was quite simple though and personally, i think our lectures are as informative as theirs..these people are from moscow doing some research and they had lots of tables and graphs and charts which no one was actually interested in..
then came the Q&A session which was really irritating, becos some crazy old hag in front was shooting down everyone who dared to question and she was quite sarcastic about it too..i mean, okay, maybe your greying hair does represent the years of experience that you have but that doesnt mean that you have to be rude about it..you can at least listen to them, even if they are wrong, and then try to explain in the nicest way possible what you think is right, isnt it??
halfway thru the last lecture, we made our bold escape ( andrevna was lurking around ) and headed to fantastika, had shaurma and then went window-shopping around..saw quite a few things and basically i have an idea of wat to get later once the sale kicks in good and proper..got myself a nice black ( again!!! ) blouse..
so 2moro, after practicals, we will be heading to minina cos xiang bin wants to check out the bookstore and after that, go for a loooong walk along pakrov til the other end, treat ourselves to a nice shaurma near mcd and head home..talk about window-shopping eh??
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