Wednesday, February 11, 2009

HE created a day that students have to study all day.... And HE named it Tuesday

Wow, I'm still tired from last Tuesday. Lets see... At 7.00 am, we had to catch the bus to reach our Chemistry department by 8.00 am. Then we had to listen to our Organic Chemistry teacher who also happens to be our Chemistry lecturer talk till 10.20 am. Then it is off to the cafeteria for a breather before the real torture begins. 11.20 am till 12.20 pm was the Anatomy lecture, where the teacher expects us to copy almost everything she says for the next hour. Then... Biology lecture. OMG, she lectures continuously from 12.30 till 2.10 and i was unfortunate enough to be seated around the middle of the hall. It's hard enough to hear what she is saying from the front row seats, it is even harder to translate what she is saying. For example, I translated her 'lose the gut' into 'induce a cut' and she is speaking in English. Oh really, who would expect her to say something that sounds so stupid? The correct, final translation was more or less 'In endoparasites, there is a trend to lose the gut and absorb nutrients through the body (she said tegaments later)'. If it wasn't for Adrian who was sitting next to me, I may not have been able to complete the notes. And he himself was beginning to lose his patience. I swear, even normal whispering can drown out her voice. Adrian was going to toss a slipper to whoever was talking when he caught them. And I was prepared to donate mine. So.... that was more or less
1.5 hours of focus on practicals and another 3 hours of hard core writing. And finally, was anatomy, which was from 2.20 from 4.00 (remember this part). Lets see.... I had to talk to the Biology lecturer about something concerning something, and my group mates had to leave for the second floor, where the teacher would find them and bring them to the appropriate classroom. Did I mention that was the first Tuesday of my second semester? Anyway, after I completed my business, I phoned my group mates, only to find that I have run out of credit. 15 minutes wasted knocking on random doors later and I was in the classroom with my group mates. The good news was, this was the first day and our teacher, Andrei was supposed to teach lightly. The problem was, Andrei has high standards. Another 2 hours of looking at the human brain (which is smaller than I thought it would be) and drawing diagrams from the blackboard of the medulla spinalis (It is hard since he only repeated the names twice and used VERY VERY short forms of the names, for example, FIV for Foramen Intervertebralis) and I thought we were free. WRONG. He kept us till 5.00, cancelling my plans with another friend. In the end, my group mates and I arrived back at our hostel at about 6.00 pm. In conclusion, I like this challenge. Bet you didn't expect me to say that. I'll upload the related pictures later, or never, depending whether or not i can relate them to my next post. So, bye for now, I'll be quite busy for the next week or two.

Ps. My next few posts will probably be about complaining about my studies for the next few weeks. TTFN.

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