"Is this all you can conjure up Saruman?"
Ok so Lord of the rings is my all time favorite trilogy and that line pretty much sums up what I would say to med school if it were a person.
Block 2: aka: block from hell, has been coined as the hardest block ever. I am happy to say that I survived and sitting here post block I am feeling pretty darn good.
Not to say there weren't moments when I wondered what the heck I had gotten myself into and if I was cut out for this. After a run in with an extremely poisonous fruit a couple weeks before blocks and spending a few days in the hospital or at home trying to snap out of my Valium induced drugged state, i lost a few days of studying. Losing just two days of studying in med school is suicide and so needless to say, I felt behind the entire time leading up to blocks. In the nights preceding blocks while studying 16 hours per day and feeling guilty while taking a break to eat or shower or pee, one may ask themselves why they did this to themselves. But the sun always shines again and once you survive the pre-block madness, you feel the sun shining again on your face, there are rainbows and birds singing...well in the case of Saba, it's chickens.
I have to say that I am truly enjoying my time in med school and on this island. Despite all the horror stories I had read about this place and all the complaints I hear, there isn't anything I would change about it, even if I magically had the power to do so. There isn't really anything else I would rather be doing with my time.
Now if my husband were with me, this would truly be my own private paradise. I miss him dearly and with Valentine's day coming up I can't help but to wish I could transport myself back home for the weekend just to have dinner together, hang out, watch a movie...and more :)
Miss you Philip Chin!
Now back to studying.
S.
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