Oh the fun I have.

Well I can say that my last oral exam is on Tuesday at 2PM with the non-neurology Professor! Non the less I still have a lot to get done till then. My final exam is Thursday at 12pm. I am so ready for a break!

JUHU GERMANY!!!!!! 4-1 against England. I will say that I think it's too bad that Endland didn't get that deserved goal, but in the end it didn't make the difference. So congratulations Germany, I am excited for whats coming!

For the time being, in English

HELLO PEOPLE!

So, I changed my mind for the time being. No more bilingual for a while. I've decided that it keeps me from posting because the most time is spent translating it and I feel bad that people who actually take the time to follow my blog aren't getting posts (Sorry!). Since it was more of a luxury anyways, it can be taken away for a while until I have more time again (haha, yea right, like that will ever happen).

I just got home from a day in the library. I hadn't really studied there the whole semester because I needed my skeleton at home and my personal library of books and I didn't want to lug them back and forth all the time. A few days ago I had my elective class which takes place in the hospital so I left a bit earlier and studied in the library again, it was so nice that I decided to power it through until this semester is over and spend more time there.

Let me catch up on what has gone on in the last 8 weeks or so. My weeks are about the same every time. I wake up, go to lecture, go home and study until lunch, eat lunch with friends, cadavers class for 2.5 hours, eat dinner and study until I can't anymore, sleep. The funny thing before my second oral exam was that a few days before the exam I was weirdly relaxed. I had studied so much that I felt I could answer anything. Some of my friends had this weird relaxation feeling as well. The weekend before the exam we even took an ice cream break and enjoyed the weather a bit. The exam itself was great. The professor asked fair questions and I walked out of there with the 5 points that I wanted.

The next day in cadavers class, we knew that there was absolutely no time to relax anymore and that the next 4 weeks would be H-E- double hockey sticks. I think it is absurd to expect people to learn the complete Anatomy of the head, neck, skull and neuroanatomy! I am afraid that a lot of the information will just slip right into my short term memory. For the past exams I studied the material until I understood it so that it wouldn't just be memorized. I am trying really hard to do that now but feel that the time is just not enough. I don't understand what the university is thinking while expecting us to do so. Don't they want us to really understand what we are learning, don't they want us to stand in the operation room later on and actually know what we are cutting into, don't they want us to be great doctors? Especially with something like anatomy which is the basics of being a doctor!?!? Well, I can't change it now and will just have to get as much done as possible. I won't lie though, my life is stressful. My best friend is studying law and her life isn't all sunshine and butterflies either. We skyped about a week ago and just bawled our eyes out to one another. There are people who are on the outside and don't understand what we are up against and go and say stupid stuff which just upsets us.  I sent her chocolate the next day and I received some 2 days later. That is what best friends are for.

Even with all the stress, I have had some moments of fun. For instance, there is a thing called Teddy-bear hospital. The concept is from some scandenavian country and its goal is to rid children of their fear of doctors and hospitals. Med students are the doctors and kids come from the local kindergartens to the hospital with their stuffed animals. Our set up had 10 check up stations equipped with just about everything you would find in a regular check up room. We would take one of the children from the waiting area and then check out their animals. I had many come to me with broken limbs, belly aches, coughing, etc. I even had a complete body break, all the bones were broken and according to the kid, so was the stomach! Oh, and both ears, as if they didn't belong to the body :)  One child came to me and I asked what was wrong with the teddy-bear, the answer.....coughing and cancer! I told the child that we would first take a good look at everything before to quickly saying it had cancer. After checking everything and asking the kid about the teddy's habits, I found out that the teddy ate a lot of chips and watched TV all day. I told the child that the bear didn't have cancer but felt so sick because it wasn't living a very healthy life and that it should exercise more and eat a lot of fruits and veggies. We also had an x-ray area with pre-taken x-rays of teddy-bears with coins or screws in the stomach. There was also an operation room where the med students wore operation gear and had all the utensils. Additionally, there was a dentist area and pharmacy. It was so much fun and a nice break from the studying.

For those who might not be the biggest soccer fans, I am sure you know the World Cup is taking place in South Africa at the moment. I have only watched three games so far and those of course being the German games. I can't allow myself to take anymore time off for more games considering they all take at least 2 hours. So far I have always been to public viewings which are a lot of fun. Now Germany is into the next round and their next game is Sunday.

My whole family is in Germany at the moment. I spent some time with my Dad, Max (younger brother) and Karoline (younger sister) when they were the first to arrive in Gö. My mom went directly to her parent's place so I have't seen her yet. Fran (older sister) arrived on Tuesday and I hung out with her for a while and watched the game on Wednesday. This Monday I am off to Stade for my grandma's 80th birthday. It is a bit stressful for me to travel there and back in one day but I got a good seat on the train so I will be able to study while on my way. I am a bit sad that I don't have more time for them but I can't make my grandma change her birthday!

I got my confirmation for my internship this summer yesterday. I will be on the general surgery department for 3 weeks and then on the new born floor for the last 3 weeks. It should be so much more interesting than my last internship since I will have a knowledge of all the anatomy!

Alrighty, my last oral exam is on the 6th of July and my final written exam on the 8th. Until then I will be living in the library again :)

I leave you know with an interesting fact I read today: The cerebellum (little brain) has more neurons than the cerebrum (big brain)!!! It is super important for motor movements. 

V

My Study partner for the next 4 weeks

Whooo-hooooo 5 Punkte!

Hey Y'all,


Sorry that I haven't posted. I am super duper busy but wanted to check in real quick and let you know that I had my second spoken exam yesterday and got......da-da-da-da 5 POINTS! Now I have to hit the books even harder than before to get through Neuroanatomy in 4 weeks and review all that stuff I learned in the past 10 weeks. Soccer may be over tomorrow if the boys don't win but I hope they do. Other than that, partying last night was so much fun! 

Hallöchen!

Tut mir echt leid dass meine Posts so wenig sind in letzer Zeit. Ich habe im Moment so viel zu tun. Wollte aber mit teilen dass ich gestern mein zweites Testat hatte und 5 PUNKTE geholt habe! Jetzt muss ich aber noch viel mehr lernen da ich Neuroanatomie in 4 Wochen lernen muss und alles von den letzten 10 Wochen. Fußball mit den Jungs könnte morgen vorbei sein sollten sie nicht gewinnen, was ich natürlich nicht hoffe. Sonst war feiern gestern genial, ich hatte echt total viel spaß. Und wer feiern kann muss auch arbeiten können und deshalb begebe ich mich jetzt zu meinem Trepel (Neuro Lehrbuch).

Nächtens!

Interesting Fact of the Day

I am smack dab in the middle of another learning marathon but read something interesting I wanted to share. Currently I am reading about the digestive system and it says here that the epithelial of the small intestine is renewed ever 24-72 hours! Or how about the fact that each Lung has about the area of a soccer field!




Ich bin mitten in einer Lehrphase wieder aber hätte hier zwei interessante Fakten für euch. Bin grad dabei übers Verdauungssystem zu lesen und hier steht dass das Dünndarmepithel sich jede 24-72 Stunden vollständig erneuert! Ach ganz interessant: Jede Lunge hat die Oberflächengröße von je einem Fußballfeld!


V

Meet my boyfriend....his name is Anatomy

I am truly sorry that it has taken so long for me to post something. I know, I know, almost a month. The thing is, I have no social life or free time for that matter. Yesterday was our first spoken exam for Anatomy. This meant spending the last two weeks doing nothing but sitting in front of the skeleton, book and photo atlas of the human body. There were some personal issues that didn't make life a whole lot easier (don't worry, I wasn't the main person in the stories, mostly my best friends were effected, ergo I got to deal with it) but I managed. To spare you all the long details of what I learned (since like I said, I have to social life to talk about) I will let you know my score....5 Points!!!!! That is the maximum we could achieve! It was fantastic. I was questioned with two other girls and I rocked all of my questions and answered all of the questions the others couldn't answer. I felt like a rock star when I came out of the room. That feeling didn't last long though. Michele wasn't questioned until 4:30 PM! Which meant jitters that I tried to calm. To make it all worse, there was a 1.5 hour delay until she actually got to go in. I waited with her in the Anatomy building until it was her turn which took time away from cleaning the apartment. (I finally cleaned my room after my exam for the first time in a LONG time) When she was finally done (and having also received 5 points) we each went home to eat/clean/get ready to go out. I meet up with some guys at Mickey D's and walked with them to Alpenmax (known for not being the best club but drinks where only 49 cents until midnight). It wasn't that bad though, that is once it started to fill up. Again a few personal issues dampened my party mood, but when the right song came on, I was dancing. I went home at 2, took a shower and hit the hay so that I could attend the lecture this morning. I probably won't post again for a while considering my next exam is in 4 weeks, my 3rd in 8 weeks and my final exam two days later....that includes all the Organs and Neurology.....yup, good bye social life.

Also Leute, tut mir Leid dass ich jetzt erst mal wieder schreibe. Es ist mir völlig klar dass es fast ein Monat ist seit dem ich geschrieben habe. Die Ursache ist dass ich kein Privatleben oder Freizeit mehr habe ich diesem Semester. Gestern hatten wir unser erstes Testat in Anatomie. Das bedeutet dass ich die letzten zwei Wochen nur noch vorm Skelett, Buch und Atlas saß. Da waren ein paar persönlich Probleme die die ganze Sache erschwert haben (keine Panik auf der Titanic, ich war nicht der hab Spieler in den Problemen, es betraf mehr meine beste Freundinnen und ich musste mich halt drum kümmern) aber ich hab's geschafft. Ich möchte euch jetzt nicht mit dem was ich lernen musste langweilen (und interessante Ereignisse in meinem Privatleben gab es ja nicht) und werde euch meine Note mitteilen…..5 Punkte!!! Das ist das Maximale dass wir erreichen konnten. Es war genial. Ich wurde geprüft mit zwei weitere Mädels und ich habe nicht nur alle meine Fragen beantworten können sondern auch noch die, die die anderen Mädels nicht beantworten konnten. Ich fühlte mich wie ein Rockstar als ich aus den Präpsaal kam, Dieses Gefühl hielt leider nicht lange. Michele wurde nämlich erst um halb fünf geprüft und dass bedeutete Aufregung von ihrer Seite und ich habe versucht die Nerven zu beruhigen. Um die ganze Sache ein bissl schlimmer zu machen gab es noch eine 1.5 ständige Verspätung. Ich habe mit ihr im Anatomiegebäude gewartet bis sie dran kam. Das hat mich vom putzen zuhause abgehalten. Zum Glück hatte ich schon nach meiner Prüfung mein Zimmer mal gründlich sauber gemacht. Als sie dann endlich fertig war (und auch 5 Punkte bekommen hatte) gingen wir beide nach Hause, haben was gegessen/aufgeräumt/ fertig gemacht. Ich habe mich mit einigen Jungs beim McDonalds getroffen und wir sind zusammen zum Alpenmax gelatscht. Alpenmax ist nicht grade bekannt dafür ein guter Club zu sein aber Montags ist halt 49 Cent Party und da sind alle Getränke bis 00 Uhr nur 49 Cent. Es war aber eigentlich ganz nett als es anfing sich zu füllen. Wiedermal haben persönliche Probleme meine Stimmung runtergebracht aber wenn das richtige Lied spielt war ich auch am tanzen. Um 2 ging ich nach Hause, duschte und schlief damit ich heute morgen fit war für die Vorlesung. Ich werde bestimmt nicht all zu bald wieder schreiben können da mein zweites Testat in 4 Wochen statt findet, mein drittes in 8 Wochen und meine Abschlussklausur zwei Tage später….das beinhaltet Situs und Neurologie…..Jop, Tschüß Sozial life.