Jail House Rock: January 2014

So schools been schoolish. Nothing to out of the ordinary. We had a discussion about our prac sites. Seems that with this "awesome" new redesign of the program everyone has to come back to SAIT once a semester.... at our own cost. fml serious program, like you couldn't get shittier for us. First we have to trudge through the installation of a new program and the courses having all kinds of hiccups. Now you are screwing the Sask, red deer and lethbridge kids. GREATttt, just awesome. I also can't quite figure out the stoon people. Almost everyone wants Stoon, great for me because I don't care where I go but I know i'd have free rent in Regina. But the thing about them is they are getting super upset about the possibility about having to prac in Regina and the problem that they won't have a place to live and they will have to rent a place and everything. Trust me I'd be mad about that too. But I'd be even more mad if I had to relocate to a place i'm not from AND have to come back to SAIT for a week a semester. (so three weeks in total) I've asked a few and they seem to not care. umm hey guys it's more money out of our pocket. We pay the same tuition, we get less teacher time, get the same assignments and tests as everyone else, but now tack on the cost of coming back for three weeks. Fudge. mmhmm fudge. wait no. back to ranting. Yes so I don't know if the people in charge are just oblivious or just plain rude. It's a common theme for the Sask and out of province people to be about $30k in debt about now. Most of us don't have a free place to crash here while in school, rent is atrocious and tuition isn't cheap.

Third year will look like this
Tuition - 4000
Rent - hopefully free
Books (they always tell us we should be set but we normally end up spending anywhere from 200-300)
Gas - 250/trip (in a regular vehicle.. I'm not even going to think what my car will cost)
Food - $40 x 6 days = $240/trip
Lodging - no idea if I can find someone to crash with here for free

Minimum extra cost = about $1500 that's without paying for lodging.

Being a student and on loans thats a freaken ton

Okay i'm going to /rant.... for now

This weeks SIM went kind of off the wall. :/ I was an "RT" and... k wait i'll explain this a little bit more because this will make no sense to people who don't participate in them.

We have SIM once a week. It's where we practice being an RT and RT roles in a fake hospital setting. Our normal groups we have 5 people. We divide roles every week, we rotate so everyone gets a chance to try a different role. The roles consist of; Lead, two RT's, recorder, and an observer. The roles are pretty self explanatory. okay back to the story
I was one of the two RT's and I was delayed getting into the story line because I stayed out to put full PPE on (personal protective equipment). (When we get a patient coming into ER we don't normally know a history on them so we put everything on, gown, gloves, mask, goggles. Just to be ultra sure. Anyways so my group didn't do this so hence my delay. Anyways to jump to the part where I think things went down hill. I took over bagging and basically my other RT disappeared. Turns out they went to get equipment to fix the problem, even though it isn't in our scope of practice. Anyways cole notes - I came in late, got ditched mid sim, I felt like it didn't go well. /story

Nothing else too new, I took my snowboard into get waxed, poor thing hasn't been waxed in a few years so I'm going to have a real treat :)

I watched Frozen. lol yes the kids movie. It was good! well not spectacular but I was cleaning my room so from what I heard/saw it was good. It was a new age Disney movie, one of the parts that made me look and actual watch was the sister just met this handsome prince and they had this lovey dovey song and then she goes to her sister and says they are getting married. Her sister freaks out and tells her no she can't just marry a man she just met. I was like whaaaaa

That's awesome! Disney finally being like love is not all meet get married.

Ohh ya I also have to take my laptop in to get set away this weekend :| It keeps getting super hot, I can't nessessarly say overheating because it's never shut down on me yet from the heat. But when I pick it up it's like touching a boiling pot of water. The battery life also only last about 1.5hrs unplugged. Not good when we have class for 4 hrs :/
So hopefully I'll get that back before too long

Ooo last weekend I photographed my first Boudoir session. I have never really had dedicated time to photograph that before nor had I looked into how to pose it and such. I spent time researching poses and pinning my little heart away on pinterest with articles and guides and how to's. I also got a great team together. My models were two girl from class as well as a last minute joiner who was a friend from highschool. I was pointed in the direction of a fellow photographer in Calgary who wanted to expand his portfolio, he turned out to be great! I also asked a girl in my class to help with assisting with reflectors and posing and such, and she was also awesome. So all in all the weekend couldn't have been possible without Chris giving me his hotel points to rent the room, he is super awesome too. The models were great, they each had their own fabulous personalities and they were patient with me and were great in helping me figure out this style. It's something I definitely was to do again, I just have to figure out how to put one together with hair/make up/hotel room and still make sometime for the time i'm putting in.

About now if you've actually read my ramblings I will give you a break and post the pictures.
Here's a forewarning there will be a gruesome picture. I will put it last.

Bronchoscoping in lab

Here's a little video of me working with the broncoscope as well as some of my classmates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqc05Zh6DFY

Last week I tried something a little different. I got a bunch of awesome make up for x-mas and Pintrest always has cool ideas.

I sometimes have lab late two days a week. Forsure once a week lab for me goes till 6, and by the time I get home I seriously don't feel like cooking. SO I made up some homemade beef and barley soup. It tastes pretty damn good if I say so myself.

Jenna and Beau bought a Pomello, and Jenna found a recipe for tea out of the skin of the fruit. the fruit itself was good (I had a taste) but the tea... not so much

Picture of pictures of one of my models from this past weekend. She is beautiful!

Saw this in the parking lot on the way to class this week. Jeep you have failed. This = ugly

Tried new nails. They were pretty thick for my liking but I liked them while they lasted

Another collage from one of my other models. Just gorgeous!

I found this hilarious

Me posing with one of our pediatric manikins

Different version I tried.... They didn't last that long. When I got mad/stressed about site selection for prac I ended up peeling it off :(

Okay gruesome picture next!

...yes thats a person's face. No we don't know what happened but if you look close you can make out his tongue so we couldn't figure out how it looks like it's exploded out of his face... like from the nose/mouth area out. This could be the kind of difficulty we could be faced with. It's our job to secure his airway, how would we do that on this patient. That was our class discussion

Okay so last semester was a lot to bite off. We wrote exams for what felt like EVER! I know I should have written while going through them, but it was easier to ignore this then to add another "to do" to my list.

Over the christmas break I got to visit with a few people and also took a trip to Jamaica. I had a great time besides the fact that I ended up getting sick and not being able to see as many people as I wanted to :(

So over the holidays I got two tattoos. On either side of my right foot. The saying "Fear not, for this too shall pass" as well as an arrow on the outside facing forward. I found the saying when I was in the first year first semester. During my first semester it was tough, I was having a hard time being back in school, not having my family close, and also not being able to get home whenever I wanted. Motivational sayings actually helped me a ton.
The arrow was a more recent find but I fell in love with it none-the-less. I follow a few artists on instagram and new that Black Smith Art Studio would be perfect to get it done while I was at home. Jesse did a phenomenal job. The idea behind the arrow is such 'An arrow can only be shot by pulling it backward. So when life is dragging you back with difficulties, it means that it’s going to launch you into something great. So just focus, and keep aiming' I thought it perfectly balanced out the quote.

Second semester has started, the schedule is weird later start times and the classroom they have us in is atrocious. Its a massive lecture hall and I can't seem to focus at all :(

So it is mandatory for me to get the flu shot. I waited a long as possible to not get it. I'm not one of those people who think i'm going to get autism from the needle, but I am also the person who hates needles and I am allergic to a random compound that hold a tablet together :| more so getting random stuff injected into me that "may help" is not on the top of my priority list thank you very much.