Me and Maeve at the Ball

I really like this picture of Maeve and I :) Maeve was on the team (of 3) as the style coordinator for the ball as well as did my makeup too. Not only did she do all this, but she also saved the day when she filled in for the cigarette/chocolate girl at the pre-reception who hurt her back the night of the ball!

2008 Med Ball---check

Just to, for some strange reason, prove that I can chair a ball for 600 of my classmates and get myself all dolled up too.
Me and my housemates, Greg, Andrew and Maeve, RCSI Med Ball. Oh and the theme was old hollywood!

Today I learned...

How to take blood from a person and then, fortunately enough, how to sew them back up when it goes terribly horribly wrong. Awesome right?

It could be just a coincidence but for some reason these two clinical skills are grouped together in one 2 hour session...and now I'm apparently all set to go! ha!

Marilyn or Dorothy?

So the med school ball I'm helping chair is just 3 days away! The theme is classic Hollywood and its gonna be great. I'm really getting excited about it. People are dressing up to the theme and everyone is really happy with it. Oh, and we also had dancing lessons all this week to learn the fox trot and swing (since we are having a Frank Sinatra impersonator and a 17 piece swing band!)

My spring break to Holland and Czech Republic was incredible. I had so much fun and can't wait to share pictures. Besides the awesome amount of hockey I got to watch all cozily wrapped up in the Mexican blanket, thanks to Chris :), some of the highlights were was staying with Johan and Melanie, our Dutch home-stay couple who 'made' us stay out at the bars until we got kicked out two nights in a row and who had an amazing 'magazine quality' house filled with all the things 2 kids on spring break need, the 2Am 'Easter' snowball fight in Holland, being undefeated in the Zoetermeer mugs, learning Czech from Sam (our 10 year old tutor and no 1 fan of the Tournament, 9 of us eating '10 delicious' chinese takeaways in the foyer outside of the elevator on our floor of our 5 star hotel, experiencing rain and snow...at the same time, seeing the real Iron Curtain, loosing the group in Karlovy vary and drinking mineral water from cool little sippy mugs, learning Czech from Sam (our 10 year old tutor and biggest fan of the American team) during the world championships in Klasterec, ordering and eating the best dumplings ever, trying to get Chris' goals on video and getting starred at every time I cheered like the crazy American fan they all thought I was, our very own 1930's convertible Scoda tour of Prague finishing at the Castle during the changing of the guards, running into my classmate Adam in Prague Castle during which we were both supposed to be in class, and trying to find and stop in as many cathedrals and then bars in Czech as we could as we traversed the entire city. Worst part: saying goodbye to Chris and all my new San Diego hockey buddies!

That's about all I can muster for now. I got a perfect score on my last anatomy quiz even with the whole break which I was excited about and today I watched endoscopies (yay fun!) at the hospital. I hope to write more soon and let you know when pictures will be up. Oh, I will be putting up pictures from the road trip with Richie and Seamus around Ireland and on St. Paddy's Day very soon.

Miss you!