The beginning of the masters

Well everyone who was reading this knows I got home safely...otherwise you'd have heard that I died.

So there was supposed to be another last blog post about my last couple of days in Kenya in which I visited Nairobi Gospel center and all those people who I met in 2005 but i kept putting it off and now it's been so long I don'tthink it matters anymore.

It was good to be home.

It's still good to be home.

I am STILL waiting for some sort of culture shock-related experience to hit me...but it'snot happening. I think my brain has COMPLETELY separated the Africa experience from the America experience and there's NO crossover between the two. I remember Kenya like I remember a dream- vividly, but with some high level of disconnect.

When i got home my brain thought no time at all had passed. I asked Emmy why she was going back to the cardiologist so soon after her last appointment...when it had actually been a year, just like it was supposed to be.

and weird things like that.

So I spent some time at home, visited Ohio and the cousins there, we had a party at my house,...my dad and brother went to Haiti for a week to do construction-stuff...and then basically I started school!

So I'm doing a masters of biomedical science. Which involves taking some but not all of the first-year med school courses.

So I'm taking histology and biostatistics, and the med students are taking that plus anatomy and embryology.

My roommate and I have been going to the anatomy lectures because anatomy is AWESOME as well as the "foundations of clinical medicine" and radiology lectures. So whatever head start this program was supposed to give me, I'm multiplying it.

I LOVE what I'm learning. I spend all day, every day studying, basically...and I don't ever get bored. I put more time into histology now than I used to put into my whole courseload, it feels like. So I'd better get a good grade in this class!

and i expect I will.

When i started writing this post 5 hours ago before I was rudely interrupted by a lab group meeting and biostatistics class, I was going to write about the particular things that I'd found fascinating but now I've lost my motivation to do that and I'm just gonna go to the gym. I'll write about that stuff sometime soon..in theory.