November 1, 2007

It's already November...holy cow, where did October go?!?

This morning I woke up and it was my last day of clinicals for the semester (and basically the rest of the year!). I happily got ready this morning and went on my way. Leslie and I both brought books to clinical and we enjoyed an hour and a half of non-interrupted reading time before the nurses were ready for us. Sister called us back to her office and our day began. It was the best day of clinical so far in the psychiatric clinic because we saw some interesting cases, and most of them were in English! Double bonus! I was actually useful today in clinical because I took blood pressures and did weights of patients and I even was able to give IM injections. I was a little nervous at first because I have only given one IM injection before and today’s injection was in a location that I had never administered it in…so it was a learning experience. I also was able to have my own patient with Leslie without one of the sisters with us. It was fun being able to do things productive at clinical rather than sitting in the corner and listening as people spoke Afrikaans for four or six hours.

After clinical we had our post conference and then the rest of the afternoon was ours! I made a quick trip to the 7/11 to get cereal for our weekend away to the Wild Coast. I worked on my political science paper and I finished it! Katherine and I were in a friendly competition with each other over who would finish theirs first…and the gold medal goes to me! Now I only have one more paper to write for the semester! The best part about today is that I only have one more week of classes and then two finals the following week. And exactly four weeks from today I am home to Minnesota! I am sad that the time is coming to an end but I am also excited to see people and be home! It’s a little bittersweet! I was able to talk to Dad on Skype today without connection problems, and I got a few messages from Sheena today. I tried calling her, but no answer…oh well, better luck next time! Its after midnight now and I have to be up in six hours to leave for a weekend away…our last one as a big group! Goodnight!