Restful yet a slightly anxious ....

I'm enjoying this week so far: enough time for me to catch up on classes, get about 6 hrs of sleep a nite (a luxury) and getting a bit of time to myself. I'm enjoying this week but on my back burner is the fact that in two weeks, I have a crazy week of finals. But I'm gonna trust that God will carry me through and giving the strength for the cray non sleeping week. I dunno what to do with my schedule to get all the studying I need. I'm JUST slightly overwhelmed. :P We'll see how I'll survive that week.

Other than that, this has been a normal week. Haven't really done many fun things, except ones going out to the local bar with a bunch of people during the homecoming weekend of the local state uni. It was great in relieving stress and not doing much thinking.

God was really gracious because He just gave me something wonderful to work with (I think). CMDA (Bible study) has accountability group (our version of small group) and I said I could be a contact person for my group. So now I have a group of girls with another first year, a second year and another girl that's been held back. I just found out that I am sort of leading the group as well in choosing topics and what to do. So we'll see how that goes. But I'm excited to see what God has planned for this type of group.

The big thing this week was the MLB Cardinal, St. Louis, winning the world series yesterday. The last two games they played were awesome. It was intense. Funny how I learned to watch all the sports that I don't normally watched in the last two years. First it was NBA bastketball from my brother then college football and basketball from Miss Sandy and not MLB from med school. How funny that I've never used watch sports and not I understand and watch various sports. haha. unbelievable.

Anyways, time for me to look at more pictures to go with my Histology class (microscope class). ::sigh::

Last 2 weeks .... ugh

The last 2 weeks was a torture, not only do I feel like I've ran a marathon of testing but I feel physically drained. I started thinking why in the world that I'm here in this med school. But then I thought of how God has opened the doors to let me in here. I have to keep that in mind or else I will go crazy with the load of work and not doing well. I have 2 classes where I'm barely passing with a 70. How sad! But nonetheless, God has reminded me that He put me here for a reason and that He'll see me through this crazy quarter. I can't really complain about the hole that I have let myself in with all the testing and the depression that came with it last week because I did learn something and that God has reminded me once again to have faith and believe in Him. I have to keep reminding myself to "have faith in God's faithfulness to us" as someone in my Bible Study have said.

This weekend is for me to refocus myself again and rejuvenate in learning the wonderful things of our bodies and of the reason that I choose to be in the medical profession. Please keep this in prayer for me and that I won't get sick unti Thanksgiving when I'm home as the weather turn chilly and rainy and windy. The winter of LA already and am not used to real winter yet since I've been away from NorCal for 4 years.

Once last thing, I have Shanghai to forward to over Christmas Break. My parents booked a trip for a week right before classes start again for me. I'm so excited!!!! :P (I've test to come back to and jet lag to deal with for classes the day after I come back, but it'll be one of those few trips with my entire family. Can't complain about that.)

alrity .... toodles til next time.

Awesome God ..... our bodies ...

I miss having praise and worship nites where people would just sing and joyfully worshipping the Lord. CMDA had one on Friday and it was great an comforting to me because it was like I've found the common ground with all the people at the fellowship. I think this really just stemmed from the email that I got regarding Rsolved for next year. I really do wish to go but it's on a weekend that I do not have off and at the busy time of the quarter. booo. I really do want to go and get the strong teaching and fellowship. oh well. Guess God has a bigger and better plan for me here.

Beyond that, my week here has been the same so far, class, study, some form of entertainment to amuse myself during mealtimes and more studying and hoping to be able to crash for more that 5 hrs a nite. A little update on the anatomy course, I definitely do not want to eat red meat any more because I can smell the meat as I dissect the body and it's really gross. We just finish the upper limb unit and it was great to see how great our God is even in our bodies. the nerves and arteries that we have are so complex and cleaning it out to be able to see them just amazed me to no end. It is like a network of ropey strings but it does everything that our arms does. How amazing is that. So that's what I'm studying right now for my exam on Tues. There's so much information but I trust God and know that He will provide me with exactly what I need.

On a side note, please pray for me in getting closer to God in my walk. I feel like I've been so far away since graduation especially now with crazy hectic schedule and trying not to be consumed by med school. I'm excited in that CMDA is having samll accountability groups and I can't wait to see how that goes. It's a bit like small groups at GOC. Anyways, back to more crazy studying of our amazing bodies.
Toodles.