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Thursday, March 17, 2005

Today is freaking cold. The weather here is so annoying!For the whole of last week, the wind kept coming and it was pretty chilly!So I thought that meant the start of autumn and the end of summer..then the beginning of this week was super hot. So I started wearing skirts and stopped bringing sweaters to class..then this morning I stepped out of my college and ran back in to change into jeans!Plus it was even raining today!:P Crazy Sydney weather. My classmate says its possible to experience all 4 seasons in a day here.

Its been a couple of looong days at school. But the week seems to have flown past. It'll be friday tmr and the end of week 3! then week 4 and easter break!:) feels weird to be having hols so soon after school has started.

Anyway, its been a busy but fun week. The medicine international students dinner was great!the vietnamese restaurant was near Uni of Sydney, about a half hour's bus ride away..the food was so good!there was green papaya salad, spring rolls and rice wraps for starters, then curried chicken noodles, seafood and deep-fried tofu and mushroom squares!!dessert was caramel tofu in sago:) It was the first meal I've had in sydney where I've had decent tasting plain white rice:) The rice at creston college is always either crunchy or too soggy. haha yeah so I enjoyed the food but the company as well..I went with 3 other Singaporean girls but met quite a few other people...it was a medicine faculty international students dinner so a lot of malaysian and asian people there..somehow I felt more comfortable around them..

We were talking about doctor-patient relations in class again today..I think its really good that they teach us about doctor-patient stuff..but sometimes I feel like they concentrate a bit too much on it. But I guess I only feel this way now cos we're still doing foundations..the real work hasn't started to come in yet..and they also teach us to reflect a lot about stuff as well...for example, in the 10 minute presentation I had to do the other day..more then half of the time is allocated to reflections, problems encountered and the thought process. Only a small portion is the information and research stuff. And in the upcoming group project that I'm working on, 15 minutes out of the 30 minute presentation should be alloted to reflections. Yep so they emphasise a lot on reflections here. I guess they're training us to reflect more cos as doctors we should reflect and whether or not our actions were the best course of actions. I think it feels weird now I'm just not used to the learning system here yet. But I guess I'll grow to like it once I get used to it:)

alright gotta get some work done now!tata people!:)

~me~ at 8:50 PM

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Thursday, March 17, 2005 Today is freaking cold. The weather here is so annoying!For the whole of last week, the wind kept coming and it was pretty chilly!So I thought that meant the start of autumn and the end of summer..then the beginning of this week was super hot. So I started wearing skirts and stopped bringing sweaters to class..then this morning I stepped out of my college and ran back in to change into jeans!Plus it was even raining today!:P Crazy Sydney weather. My classmate says its possible to experience all 4 seasons in a day here. Its been a couple of looong days at school. But the week seems to have flown past. It'll be friday tmr and the end of week 3! then week 4 and easter break!:) feels weird to be having hols so soon after school has started. Anyway, its been a busy but fun week. The medicine international students dinner was great!the vietnamese restaurant was near Uni of Sydney, about a half hour's bus ride away..the food was so good!there was green papaya salad, spring rolls and rice wraps for starters, then curried chicken noodles, seafood and deep-fried tofu and mushroom squares!!dessert was caramel tofu in sago:) It was the first meal I've had in sydney where I've had decent tasting plain white rice:) The rice at creston college is always either crunchy or too soggy. haha yeah so I enjoyed the food but the company as well..I went with 3 other Singaporean girls but met quite a few other people...it was a medicine faculty international students dinner so a lot of malaysian and asian people there..somehow I felt more comfortable around them.. We were talking about doctor-patient relations in class again today..I think its really good that they teach us about doctor-patient stuff..but sometimes I feel like they concentrate a bit too much on it. But I guess I only feel this way now cos we're still doing foundations..the real work hasn't started to come in yet..and they also teach us to reflect a lot about stuff as well...for example, in the 10 minute presentation I had to do the other day..more then half of the time is allocated to reflections, problems encountered and the thought process. Only a small portion is the information and research stuff. And in the upcoming group project that I'm working on, 15 minutes out of the 30 minute presentation should be alloted to reflections. Yep so they emphasise a lot on reflections here. I guess they're training us to reflect more cos as doctors we should reflect and whether or not our actions were the best course of actions. I think it feels weird now I'm just not used to the learning system here yet. But I guess I'll grow to like it once I get used to it:) alright gotta get some work done now!tata people!:) ~me~ at 8:50 PM
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