End of Week Two and Heading to Perth

Friday has arrived! This week was not bad at all as I was out of lectures at midday and had Wednesday off. On Wednesday we were supposed to meet with our Director of Studies (DoS). However, I did not make it to my meeting with my DoS (there is a good explanation for this, so no, I didn't decide to sleep in). The night before, I had checked my account to see if there were any important notices on the notice board prior to going to bed. There was a notice saying that my DoS had changed her meeting time from 11am to 9.30am and it had the room number of where we were meeting at. So, I went to bed and woke up around 8am. Not remembering what room number she was going to be in, I went to go check the notice board for a second time on the morning of and it was no longer on the notice board. So it got me thinking, "did they revert back to the original scheduled time or did the notice just get taken down for some oddball reason?". So I figured I would just catch the 8.23am bus to the school. Unfortunately, as I walked out the door, the 8.23am bus drove right by before I was able to make it to the bus stop! Doh! So I went back inside and studied for a couple hours and then went back to the bus stop for 10.23am. I got on the bus and about 2 minutes into the ride, I had a feeling that the meeting was kept for 9am and that I should check my email on my phone before I get all the way to the school. Sure enough, there was an email in my inbox from my DoS stating that the 9am meeting was kept and that I had missed it along with several others and that I should reschedule the meeting. So, I stayed on the bus and got off at COSTCO and IKEA. I have never been inside of an IKEA before and it was ok. I had breakfast inside (asked for a breakfast ciabatta and got a full Scottish breakfast instead. Wondering how that happened?) Oh well, I didn't say anything and just took what was given to me. After breakfast, I went to COSTCO and it made me feel like I was back home! Everything is set up the same and there are quite a bit of the same products there as back home. I got a space heater, HUGE box of granola bars, steak and cheese.

I brought along a duffle bag and a backpack to bring everything back in, worked out quite well! I got home and tested the space heater and man does it work well! Heats up my room great! No one at the flat here has turned on the heat yet and it has been down in the mid 40's at night. Too bad for them, I've got my handy space heater so my room is nice and toasty all of the time now.

Today, before the tutorial, I also bumped into Wilson, who works out at Langhill Farm. I had my placement there before last year and Wilson gave me my cattle handling examination. Well, unfortunately I bumped into him and got stuck talking to him...Ha! Just kidding Wilson... Was nice catching up with Wilson and always enjoy the laughs buddy! Not sure if you will read this, but just wanted to give you a hard time... ;)

Today we had a bandaging practical where we had to learn a Robert Jone's Wrap, was quite easy since I've seen it done a number of times back home at the clinic. I was the only one in the group of 30some students that had ever wrapped a dog's leg with a bandage. We had a springer spaniel that just laid on the table while we bandaged the leg. We also had to learn how to wrap the head in a bandage as well for things like aural surgeries and such. Was quite easy and then I got on the bus home. I just purchased the university bus pass which gives us access to the hired coaches up until next year for 78 GBP versus paying almost 400 GBP on the city bus pass for 9 months! The bus that I was on today broke down and the driver had to call a smaller van to come and pick us up. I thought I was going to die it was such a rough ride home and the driver does not know how to drive manual apparently because he's always letting up on the gas too much and the bus/van jerks forward constantly. Got home safely though, so thankful for that!

I will be heading to Perth tomorrow on the 8am train, so I need to get myself out of bed around 6.30am, blah! Should get to Perth around 10am and am just going to go check out the city and go hiking in the nearby woodlands by myself. I find it relaxing to just go and do things on my own sometimes. I will post some pictures up on the photos link tomorrow, so check for new photos! I'll just make a new post tomorrow and the pictures will go up at the same time. Anyway, off to bed so I can get out of bed in the morning (or attempt to get out of bed in the morning). Talk to everyone soon!