Back from the Dead!

So I have been MIA lately, motly because we were entering what us "Baby RT's" are calling Hell Week. This week we have/had

• Large Anatomy and Physiology emax
• 214 mid term
• CARTA comparasson essay due
• 201 essay due
• 218 skills assessment
• 214 skills assessment
• Medical terminology final

and the teachers were nice enough to move 218 midterm till next week thank god. This stuff is on top of our regular studying/note taking from classes, as well as journal assignments, and peer reviewing of paper due next week (thankfully).

But I am happy to say I am done a good chunk of the list to do this week with marks I am proud of!

One thing school is teaching me is that
1) there is no breaks... ever. Once you are done one thing move to the next... possibly before you are even done the last thing
2) don't get sick! the roomie is sick and missing one day of classes is equal to making up about 3 days of work/understanding class

Referring to #1 it was at 1pm this afternoon that I started looking at christmas ideas for things :D

Changing topics
I LOVE halloween. it's fun, you get to try out being different without being called out on it. This is the second year I have tried doing zombie make up :)

Pumpkin that I carved this year. SAIT is super awesome because they host events like this to make the students staying here feel more at home. So I trucked over to East Hall and carved a pumpkin with Rachel. This is Rachels first Halloween :) We also met some Australians that said they have never carved pumpkins either. 

The Friday before Halloween Chris, Rachel and I went to the haunted houses at the Stampede Grounds. I did the make up for Chris and I and Rachel was a fortune teller.

Another picture of my make up

Today is actually Halloween so I woke up a bit early and did a more simplified zombie make up :) I ended up getting a lot of compliments from people. Also today was lab day and I wasn't sure if I was allowed to wear regular clothes so I ended up just doing the face piece instead of the face and neck piece I had planned. Didn't want to wreck the scrubs.

This has been our weather lately. A snow/ice fog mixture. Its really cold on the face when walking... especially with the make up sine I can't do up my coat the whole way.

Also turns out I can break supposedly non breakable microwave safe dishes :/ I followed instructions of the chicken pot pie!

Little Update

***Some pictures below may be offensive***


So I've been busy trying to study for A and P as well as writing two essays, in which I wrote about in my last ranting post. I just finished both essays, the drafts anyways.
This weekend was open house at SAIT, I went and worked the RT booth for a few hours. It was hilarious to watch people faces when they saw the pigs lungs being inflated by the ventilation. They either had the a look of shock or horror on their face.

My brain is more or less mush from trying to write these essays so I'm just going to go ahead and post pictures.

Open house at SAIT and I see a Car2go parked out front of rez

Blizzarded really bad yesterday morning

Last night I went to Hotel Transylvania, on the way to the movie I saw the yellow 300z covered in snow. JDMwinter

 Woke up this morning to find probably some drunk students shuffled this picture into the snow. lol

Saw this last week on the way back from class, yes that is a guy on a unicycle in a lab coat......

Home Sick

Definition (from Wiki): is the distress or impairment caused by an actual or anticipated separation from the specific home environment or attachment objects.

Wouldn't this mean people are home sick all the time? Even at work? 

Beside the point, today while walking into my room I noticed on the calendar that my mom made me I have a tag for "home sick" or advanced booking. Now i'll give some back ground on this because some people are probably like wth.

This goes back to when I was living in Regina this past summer, my parents used to joke about leaving me in Calgary, I keep on a brave face and didn't let it show how much that comment really hurt until one day close to the day I was leaving for school I lost it. Just started crying, this was the first time id be moving this far and not having a constant mode of transportation to come home whenever I pleased. I think I made mom feel bad by crying on the phone to her, in which she stapled these baggage tags to my calendar for "flights home" They weren't actual tickets but they remind me I could go home whenever I needed. It was a big help. The Calendar is super cool too, mom went onto facebook and put a ton of pictures of everything every month. Good reminder of home.

Me feeling homesick... not as much as I would think. I thought I would be a lot more upset about not being able to go home all the time. But in reality I have so much to do with school I honestly don't have time to dwell on not being at home. I love talking/skyping with people back home but I don't obsess over it... theres no time to really. 

so all in all homesick for me = no (by definition from wiki I guess I am, but I am self diagnosing I am not)(lol), but I do miss a lot of thing and people from back home (all of my homes).

One of my favorite pictures of my dad and I and our children hahaha

I have realized I don't have any pictures of mom and I... That will have to change!

Calendar mom made me <3

Outside my window, things are looking more dead...

Common area view, this morning you could see the mountains fairly clearly

You can see the mountains better in this one

Common Question

Every student knows that when you go out anywhere with people besides school friends you will get the inevitable question "hows school?". I have to say that family is the worst for this, okay maybe worst isn't the right word but you know what I mean. And honestly I don't mind answering it for the 100th time when I go back home for a visit, it means that they care about you enough to ask to see how things are going.... or they just really don't know what else to talk to you about. Either way they are trying to have a conversation with you. Now my answer to this question isn't the normal, "ohh great thanks!" it's more along the lines of "super stressful/hard! but thanks for asking." at which they are normally shocked that I didn't answer with the normal. To which they either stop talking to me, change topics or ask why it's so stressful/hard. I knew going into this program that all I heard about it was it was good and it was hard. I didn't really know what that meant when I kept hearing it. Well now  I do. It is hard, super stressful and thus far I can't see the big payoff yet but I can see things making sense which I'm taking as a small payoff. The motto I have come up with thus far

"If you have nothing to do then you are forgetting something"

This sums up school.

Honestly, if you think you have nothing to do you are forgetting something or knowingly putting it off.

On any given day I have a list of at least 6 things to get done after classes, I will use these next few weeks coming up as an example.

In the next week weeks we have two essays due. An anatomy and physiology "quiz"(more like exam). And a skills assessment. I also feel like i'm forgetting something off this list.....

Okay so some people will be like two essays, pssshht thats easy. WRONG! especially for this girl. I remember being in elementary school and having to do an essay and sitting infront of the computer crying because I had no idea what to do... I still don't. If any teachers are reading this please take the time and teach the younger kids how to write an essay and drill it into them so it will come with ease. They will hate you now but thank you later. One essay is on a health topic, 4-10 pages long is the criteria, written in APA formatting ( :| I have no idea what apa formatting is), I received the topic of Pneumothorax, really I can't complain, I learnt a lot and it was a relatively easy topic to research with lots of material on it. Putting all the information together is another thing for me :/ I started early and I have an almost complete rough draft of it done so I am proud of that. That one isn't due until the 29th. Second essay, is only 1500 words, you think ohh not that bad. again WRONG. The topic is comparing two governing bodies of RT. They are ridiculously similar and every ones paper will be on the same thing (how fun is that to mark :/) and from what I hear it is very hard to get 1500 words :| ohh joys I plan on starting that tomorrow night.

Anatomy and Physiology exam, I call them exams, teachers call them quizzes. They are worth a decent amount, I think the last one was 10%, I consider that an exam. Anyways these test cover a lot, I mean A LOT of material and then there is only about 40 questions for the exam :| frustrating. 

Skills assessment I was freaking out about today, we hadn't covered any of it in class yet and the way it was described was that it was next week. This wouldn't surprise me either, some of our classes are lagging behind from our labs, they are close in content material but sometimes don't exactly line up. I was scrambling after class today to try and figure out lab data and how to interpret it and what was going on. Our skills assessment is we will be shown lab data, we have to tell them what it is (high low, hyponatremia, hyperkalemia, polycythemia, ect) and what could be causing the shift from normal. Well we just started to cover this stuff in class today so I did quite a bit of self study tonight to only ind out at about 9pm that it's not until the week after (email came out) :/ well good I guess 

This I forgot that is kind of freaking me out, I start practicum on Oct 26 :| scary! even scarier is I don't have a car to get to practicum. Taking public transit to go shopping is one thing, taking it to be on time to "work" is a foreign concept to me :| I feel like I will have to leave at 5am to get there to start at 7. Also doesn't help that they haven't posted where my location is yet... I know the company I will be working with but not the address yet.

Side note:

One really cool thing I noticed is when watching Bones or Greys Anatomy when they are using medical terminology for stuff I am actually more or less understanding what they are saying. I never realized before at how much my brain just skipped over the words they were saying that I didn't understand.

Okay enough ranting and onto pictures

Wish this could be my job.... print screened off my phone...

A and P finished early so we did a Q and A where the students made up the questions

Another one

A 30 days of hair pic. I know its taking me forever to do, but i'm getting there I swear!

Finally finished editing my drift pictures, was messaging a friend as I was editing his picture and sent him a sneak peak before I posted it

Deadlines

Everything in life I feel is a deadline, and right now in school we seem to be getting slammed with them again. 2 essays due on the 29th, Anatomy and Physiology exam/quiz on the 30th. A and P is a hard subject for me, I have spent more time on it this time then last time but I am still freaked out about it.

This weekend while working on my essay I took a break and found the photo album that Sara gave me before I left. While being here I feel so torn, I want to talk to everyone everyday an to go home all the time but on the other hand I feel like I have so much to do here. I keep my skype open while listening to music and studying or homework so feel free to talk to me "mskeener"

Sara and I in my first apartment when I lived in Stoon

Bareass Beach in Stoon, my favourite place besides the sandbar beach

This is what my bed looks like most nights/days, this was the essay bomb that went off lol. Research papers everywhere

This weekend I had to re-take my CPR course. When I applied for this program they told us we only had to have CPR-C, I recerted with my old job but once we got here they said we had to have CPR-C Healthcare. I asked around to find out the difference between the courses and someone told me they teach you bagging techniques and I was expecting it to be quite different. Nope, not at all, they show you two person rescue which I learnt in lifeguarding, and then add a bag-mask onto that. I was also very disappointed with Heart and Stroke Foundation, they have turned the course into is just watching a video :/ the teachers really didn't say much. The fact that I paid over $100 to spend 5 hours to learn nothing new :| what a waste. I wish we could test out of the course. 

Last week it snowed, it stayed for about a day or so. So I went out and bought some much needed winter supplies

Toque, and mitts!

Its snowing in wonderland!.. wait nope, still in jail... but still snowing

So yes it is snowing here, as well as everyone on facebook has updated me that is also snowing in Regina and Saskatoon. Who needs windows when you have facebook?

Top of the to buy list
- Mitts! I brought my board gloves back but I want more or less 'fashion mitts' I guess you can say. Something to just keep my fingers warm to and from class, board mitts are a little over the top for that.
- Wax, for halloween make up

Well yes I have been MIA since last week. It was the long weekend and I went back 'Home'. I put home in ' ' because I have many homes or places I call home.

Places I call home right now

• Regina - family and highschool/friend I grew up with are there
• Cabin - used in the summer as a home. I spent more time this past summer out there then I have in the last 3 years. It was good, I loved relaxing out there and bringing friends out. 
• Saskatoon - Place I probably will end up living. I love the city, like the people, all around good place to live. And close enough to family that it's anywhere from 1hr 45 min drive to 2.5hrs depending on who's driving lol
• Calgary - Home as of right now, place I have the crap I use daily.

So yes I know some people get confused as to where I'm going when I say home, it makes sense because I have many homes :)

While home for this long weekend I finally got to meet and cuddle my new nephew/godson Ethan

He is three weeks old in these photo's

Halloween shopping

I also got to drive my car while I was home! Yay! I missed her so much!! Went out to the drift event and took photos. Now a few people asked me if I was going to drift. I want to, don't get me wrong, but the banks scare the shit outta me and I know I am still super shitty. I can spin my tires into third gear sometimes and the odd time I can take a good corner sideways onto a street (normally the worst streets like main roads :/) but I don't have enough practice to keep a corner or have anywhere to practice without getting more points on my license :/ . I didn't want to learn with like 12 other drivers there. I get enough crap from people being a girl thats into cars, it would just give them one more thing to dig into me about if I crashed my car into a wall. Another big reason I didn't go out is because when I sold my winter car I sold the rims and tires I was going to burn off/practice drifting with :s . I tried to keep them but it was a deal breaker (boooooo). With the new over fenders on I need better fitting rims anyways so the ones I have now will becomes drift spares.

Drift event had some casualties. Chris put the event on, and during the driver meeting said if something goes wrong and you think you are going to hit the wall, keep on the gas, don't apply the brake.... This s what happens when you hit the break. Now i'm not laughing at this guy, I feel really sorry for him, it's automatically programmed into us to hit the breaks when something is going wrong. Unfortunately you need to do the opposite in this case.

BMW Crash

For some reason it won't let me embed the video, ohh well there's the link. 

Picture of my keys for the 180. lol plate key chain came from SEMA a few years ago

Here's my dads other child (besides me) and my child put away for the winter. Spoiled brats in their heated garage.

My beautiful welcome home flowers I got from Chris!

First thing I noticed when I got home, the bed was extremely low.... well not to an average person but to me with my sky high res bed it was.

Bed at home (Regina)

Bed at res (the nightstand is average size) its about 4+ feet off the ground

After getting back to Calgary I emptied my camera onto my desktop. I let the transfer go over night so I don't actually know how long it took, but I think close to forever.

Roomie and I went to Walmart yesterday... we somehow ended up in Calgary hood area :/

Something else Sask doesn't have that I know of... Liquor flyers

Picture out my window looking down town  It's sleet snowing here today off and on all day. Nothing is staying yet though.

MITTENS!!!...where are you?!?!

ohh right, back in Sask :/

Well right now it's snowing out, it is melting as it lands on stuff, but its supposed to snow overnight and i'm betting we might see some on the ground in the morning.

Well I will forewarn you this will mostly be a ranting post... hopefully not long though

First some tips:

• The common areas in the Tower residence are freezing, when going to study in there sit in the sun or wear socks and bring a blanket
• The weather is dry here! Bring lip chap and tons of it
• Since it's so dry my contacts really bother my eyes, and since i'm not driving I don't even wear my glasses normally. I pull up the power points on my laptop and then I don't have to worry. I hope to see the eye doc and get maybe some better breathable ones..?
• In the basement it is FREEZING! Bring a blanket/jacket/sweats if you are planning on waiting downstairs while you are doing laundry.
• even if you think you might have nice weather until your first trip home, bring a warm jacket and mitts! I thankfully brought one of my winter coats so I'm not completely frozen

I'm also freaken excited to use my goose down duvet cover! Last few nights have been the first time i've actually even used my covers. It always so freaken hot in here. 

Since I did better then I thought on my quiz I treated myself while out with a friend at Chinook mall and bought two lulu headbands! yay me! Going to use them for the some of the 30 days of hair!!

This is one of them

Thats about all I can remember at the moment

Heres a funny cat video that we watched in class today.... RT's have something about cats... not quite sure what it is but we watch at least one cat video in class a week :/ lol good times.

MIA....not!

I swear i'm still alive, just been studying my butt off. I've have total of 4 tests that i've been studying for. One last week, which I thought I bombed but turns out I did awesome! I had anatomy and physiology today, that course will be my death. This last test was over 700 pages of reading and over 300 power point slides... and only 45 questions on the test. :/ test is also worth 20% of our mark :| sooo not cool. I studied my butt off for it so I hope it pays off. My weeks/weekend are blending together :/ , i've been home studying at nights ever night for the two-ish weeks. So my body doesn't know saturday from monday anymore because i'm trying to keep the same ish sleep schedule.
Oh the topic of sleeping, I don't know what it is with my brain, one minute i'm dead tired from studying and I try and go to bed, then my brain is like wired :/ then when I force myself to sleep I have wicked scary dreams or just rankly vivid ones. Which are not appreciated because then I get up multiple times in the night and it feels like I didn't get any sleep.

So this weekend I took two smaller breaks, girls gotta let her brain have a break every once and a while. Rachel and I went to Chinook and did some shoppin with intent of going to the later movie of The Looper. Turns out the grumpy movie ticket girl gave us the wrong tickets. By the time we went back we couldn't get into the movie time we wanted so we oppted for the next day. So we got some shopping in and had supper. We watched The Looper sunday afternoon, it was a good but gorey movie.

The Looper movie trailer

The pj shorts I got, definitely not going to get worn outside of the bedroom but they are super soft... and have a pink draw string!

Rachel and I went to The Cheesecake Factory, these were our desserts. Mine has taken me 3 days to eat lol

When we got back from shopping I spotted this in the parking lot. It had a nice aftermarket paint job. LHD 300z, random persons, think they live on campus...

Bought the scarf and soft t-shirt at the mall... also cut my bangs... there is a reason why I'm not a hairdresser... I butchered them :/

This morning I was up at 6am and this was the pretty sunrise I got to see

hahaha hopefully mom doesn't see this.... this was my supper tonight lol. I was busy studying and didn't want to cook.

This is how I feel about tests, "I got this, it'll be easy" "Yup I can do this" "sonofabitch"

Doing lung topography last week in class... this means drawing all over another person and also getting yourself drawn on... your hands turn out like this. Good thing they were washables!

lol this is how skype decideds to show me people sometimes... come on skype.. well actually I know it's the computer or internet connection but hey skype is easier and fast to be able to blame lol