Orientation ...

June 18 ... not much except spending the day getting oriented somewhat to the clinic itself. Tons of forms to fill out, getting packets of papers and trying to meet random fellow intern at the same time hoping that you'll find someone in the same program or someone you recognized during interview trail. Thankfully, I did meet new people but do I remember their names, not likely, but I'll recognize their faces. I did run into a gal that I met on interview trail, can't remember which one but it's nice to see a familiar face around. Met a few other people from Anesthesia as well, but otherwise, a fairly boring day.

Went to a get together over the weekend that was arranged by a couple of medicine folks but ended up meeting more non medicine people. haha how funny. It was fun, just hanging out, drinking, and "clubbing" for the night. Good times.

Monday - 6/21 - crazy 8 hrs of Epic training on the computer. It's so boring and I'm not how much of it I'll remember. It got to a point where we are sending emails for side chats since there's no cell phone reception. Haha. Finally got to see out class.

Tues through Friday - our official anesthesiology orientation. We all sat around the conference table for 8 hrs a day, listening to lectures, having discussions and getting to know each other really well. And come on, yes, we are always around the "good" drugs all the time but really necessary for the 2 full days worth of talks and discussions on drug addiction. But I guess prevention is better than cleaning up after messes. These couple of days, we literally bonded and found our own little group to hang out with. Surprising stats is that only 3 gals in the American grad side and we are all single but there's only 4 single peeps total. So we all kind of hang out together mostly. Also there's like a DO group as well since there are 6 of us. But we are good group, will have lots of fun and do pretty well. Can't wait to see how we'll all do in the next 4 years as a family. On Friday, we finally met the rest of the IMGs that made up half of out class of 26. They are all married and if not, they don't tend to hang out with us American grad. Oh well. We'll all get to know each other soon enough when we start rotating.

Mon - Wed - BLS/ACLS - necessary but super boring and somewhat ridiculous as well. To think that we have to do this every 2 yrs. ugh. enough side about this. But definitely more bonding time and ever more distince cliques of IMGs and AMGs.

Oh boy, July 1st here we come whether we are ready or not!!

Last vacay home for the year...

Spent three weeks ... I think it's the longest that I have spent home since I've left for college back in 2002. It was great ... a last vacay of just bumming around before the crazy residency starts in Cleveland.

I really miss the time with my parents and made realize that they already have their own schedule to their lives and are quite happy. I spent lots of time eating out with my mom and eating my mom's homemade food. It was great time to just be able to chat with my parents the "adult" topics that I never really cared even a couple months ago.

It finally hit me that being away from home for so long that I don't really my parents' home as my home any more. I still say I'm original from Cali cause I just can't shake off my Cali style but I tend to say I'm from wherever that I have been living before. Now, I'll say that I'm from Jersey. My parents' place now has become one of my vacation place where I can just lounge and not obligated to do anything beside visiting my family. I even feel like I'm a visitor at the church that I grew up in. I guess this is part of growing up and becoming an adult and moving so far away from home.

I don't know when I'll be moving back to Cali but I have a feeling that it'll be awhile.

My brother's graduation ...

One long crazy weekend ...

Sat ... early morning drive for the long awaited haircut with my fav hair dresser. Hair feels much lighter and much easier to deal with. Then photo session with my parents. I don't like to be in photos and my mom is determined to get some good shots in with my brother so she can send to them and to keep them on her phone ... sigh. Surprisingly, we did get some good ones. Then onto our usual family game night, except this time around it's Monopoly and MahJong. Before it used to Big 2 card game... my family goes through phases.

Sun .. graduation ceremony and pictures galore. We took pics prior to the ceremony with my dad's side of family. Way too many pictures and I'm the silly girl with the green hood in the midst of lavendar hood for dentistry. Oh well. The ceremony was over 2 hours and I was so bored ... then dinner at a fancy Chinese restaurant where the food is more for the adults and the younger gen was wondering what half the food was. One of the dish is the fish's stomach ... interesting and ech... Then onto our usual family game nights ... oh the crazy fun ...

Monday ... finally finshed with packing up my brother's room ... This was the 3rd trip out to bring his things back home. Imgaine how much things he had as a single guy. I swear, he has more than I do and I have an entire apt with furniture and what not. We moved everything back home and his stuff filled up my room, his room and what used to be the study. Amazing how my brother has pretty turned the house into his storage until he finds a job and move out. I'm just waiting for the phone calls from my mom when she can't stand up any more and need to vent... haha