Busy! Busy! Busy!

Well, it's been a while since my last post, and for good reason! I've been busy studying for these upcoming exams. We finished our neurology and respiratory lectures and are now working on our surgery lectures. Our exam is in a couple of weeks, so I have one week left of lectures, one week of revision and then exams! Then I come back home! I've been trying to study for the statistics portion of the exam and I can definitely tell you that I would never make a good statistician! Wow do you have to be crazy to take statistics up as a career! I'm working on the practice work given to us and hoping that they will use similar problems. The new building is semi-open. Students are only allowed in the canteen, which is big and very open. The atmosphere is so much nicer to study in than the original canteen. I've been planning a hiking trip for the past few days for the summer time. My buddy Ollie and I are going to take a train to Bridge of Orchy, take the West Highland Way to Fort William (that is the trail where they filmed Braveheart), take a train from Fort William to Inverness and then begin the 90 mile journey to Smoo Cave and the very Northwestern tip of Scotland. Once we reach the Northwestern most point, we will then begin to make our way to Thurso, which is to the East. From Thurso, we will take a train to Edinburgh, which will be about 8 hours. The entire trip will take about 7-8 days and we will be camping in the Scottish Highlands. How awesome is that! This is something I've wanted to do ever since my first ever trip to Scotland. This is something I feel I must do while I am here and at least take advantage of my location. If I don't do it now, it will be much more difficult to accomplish later. We are going to be walking about 120 miles total and averaging 25 miles per day, so it will be a challenge and I will be training all Summer for it. I'll keep everyone posted on that, but there won't be any updates until it gets closer to the time, which will be on September 17th at 6am.

I have two lectures tomorrow until 11am and then I am done for the day. I will be studying statistics all weekend long so that I have it in my head. I don't want to have to resit this statistics exam! No one should! I can't wait until my exams are over and I am back home and get to work some quality hours at the clinic. After my Summer in AZ, I am then going to spend the other half in Canada! I'll work at the same clinic I did as this last break and maybe they will let me do a spay or neuter? They let me extract two feline carnassials the last time! Who knows what they will let me do this time around! I will be there for about 3 weeks so maybe they will let me do some orthopedic surgeries on my own??? Hey, I've seen so many TTAs being done that I could probably walk myself through the procedure. I know how to make all the radiographic measurements, now its just a matter of getting into surgery and attempting my first one! Some how, I doubt if a TTA will be my first solo procedure...but then again, who knows!

Well, I will try and update the photos soon, I've just been so busy. I will try this weekend. I hope everyone is having a good end of the week and I will talk to you all later!