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last night i learned how to do a proper breaststroke and immediately i felt faster...then i practiced flip turns.

i'm glad i decided to give this whole real swimmer idea a try. we will see how cut out i am for it at the meet next weekend. it feels great being in the water and challenging myself again in this way. and ya know what, as much as i miss diving i never would have put myself up to this challenge if there were diving boards here so there's one more reason to be smiling tonight. :)

just to share

im going to see Jimmy Eat World tonight which i'm quite excited about. it's my first show in a long while and im going with beechwood roomie Andrew who's a huge Jimmy fan. i can't wait!

on a school related note...the other day i was picked by the instructor to take a patient (actor) history in front of my entire class. this was quite ironic because i had just been chatting with Greg before class how i might die if i had to do a history with everyone watching me and that if i did get picked he should trip me on the way up so i could hold me 'broken' nose and run out of the room. well all i have to say is that it must have been payback or something but with all eyes of the class on me i walked up (without being tripped), was handed a microphone and my first thought was just don't faint, seriously. i hate public speaking and have a real phobia of microphones (do not ask me to do karaoke!). somehow I did pretty well and even got a few compliments from classmates. apparently the microphone must have hide the shakiness in my voice and friends said i didn't even look nervous! woah, maybe all this really is sinking in. maybe now taking any real patient history, without 50 people staring at me, is going to seem like a piece of cake!

do i really...

need a 2 hour lecture on professionalism? hmmm

1/8th of the way done!

update and pictures coming soon from my 2 week break in france.

also, just quickly, i passed all my first semester exams and had a meeting with the directors of the program when i got back from break. all they wanted to talk to me about what how i was liking living in Dublin compared to San Diego...exactly how the perfect post exam meeting should go.

looks like i'm on my way!