So this is one of my best buys this autumn probably. I bought it in Germany about a week ago at Frankfurt university's medical bookshop. Half the price of the one (in English) here, and that is only the 14th edition; note that this is the 22nd. And I love it. The pictures are great, and even though it's heavy and big it's amazingly good. I have noticed that the German Atlases are the only good ones. Since American and English ones often not have the Latin names and haven't any proper pics. Every Anatomyatlas they recommend is German. So go Germany!My week in Germany was amazing. I went to the movies twice (Up! and The time traveller's wife), got to attend some great weddingreceptions, went and checked out some proper bookstores (not only the medical one...), got to see a round of icehockey of my "childhood"team(explanation later..) and best of all: meeting the family.
So the thing about me and icehockey: my aunt really got me into it already when I was a kid, she took me to watch the trainingsessions of the Frankfurt Lions and likes to tell the story about younger me getting scared to death about a player splashing some water on the spot behind the plasticwall where my face was. And after all those times I really do like watching icehockeygames live. Preferably of course my childhood-team and with my aunt.
Up! was is a Disney movie and we saw it in 3D which was really cool. The movie was good and sad also, since it can be related to some recent events in our own family. But we had a good laugh about the movie also. The time traveller's wife was quite a good movie, but the book is better. As always. My dad liked it, and that sort of amazed me since I think it's quite a girly movie. Or not girly, but dramatic. Anyhow, really recommend it, and obviously men like it too :D
A fun thing happend when I arrived at Frankfurt airport. I went to the wrong luggageclaimroom so I had to go to the information and ask them to get me into the right room to get my backpack. And the man asked where I was coming from. I said Estonia. He responded, okay what would you do in Estonia, and why didn't the group you were with say that you went to the wrong room (he then asked his assistant if Estonia was a Schengercountry even; some people just are ignorant). I don't thing he believed me when I said I was travelling alone and that I nowadays live in Estonia. Maybe he thought it is some weird Middle-Asian country or something...
Well when I came back and arrived at Tartu airport I shared a cab with a German man. Or it didn't come up before the driver asked him where he came from. So we started talking in German, and he was from Berlin. Hopefully he liked Tartu, he was here as a guestlecturer who accidently had sign up for it and I think he regreted it a bit as he arrived at our airport. Where the luggage claim consists of a box that is dragged by a minicar and consisting all the luggage. And you have to walk with your bags unto the securitycheck. It is quite hilarious.
When I came home I happily noticed my bike was still at the same spot inside the house beside the door where I left it. But in the apartment it was freezing cold. The autumnwarmth was over and my house hadn't put on the heatingsystem. Nice. The next morning a nice surprise awaited me as I tried to open my frontdoor. My bike was blocking the minor space between the three doors on my floor. The back tire was all flat and someone had put a note on it to please not leave the bike there since it's blocking the passage. Well I certainly didn't move it; and at 1am that same morning it had still been downstairs. So I was really pissed and it didn't get better in school when I had to write my jointstest and tried to do my oral bone exam. The joints I got an E from, so I passed it merely. The bones I had to retake (I in fact just took it to try it out which was really good in the end since I was prepared for this new and akward situation where you have to take a oral test in front of your classmates)
So I was really freaked out the rest of the week, barely getting any sleep 'cause of it. On Wednesday I was in the morgue studying the bones (they have them there on one of those tables so you can learn them). One by one I went them through until I could every single tuberositas, tuberculum, facies articulares... But it was really fun even though it was plain studying for about 6hours. We got to see a dead guy too, he was under one of those metalboxes on a table. Didn't look so fresh anymore.
I actually got to know a cute guy there too. It was just me and him there and then he came over to my table and started asking (first in Estonian) about how you know if you have a left or a right ulna, and we talked some more... I almost laughed out loud afterwards it was like something out of Grey's Anatomy; romance in the morgue x) And I felt like a real medical student for once!
The bonestest the next day went excellent, I got an A! I felt like I was on top of the world. That was even better than the activating of the heating system that Tuesday before!
I decided then to go to the getting-to-know party for the medical students that same evening and I have to say the preparty- and postpartytime was so much better than the actual party. Just hanging around and talking. We did that until 4.30 am that morning without realizing it but it's a good thing that they have cabs available around the clock. I live after all 4km from my friend's apartment. And as i mentioned; the weather isn't the nicest right now. And it's really unpredictable. One minute there is amazing sunshine and the next it starts to pour down rain or as yesterday hail!!!!!! Here I should always have my umbrella with me. But that sucks since it takes up so much space in my bag.
The electricity went out for about half an hour Thursday morning and I took the situation and talked to two old ladies who live a floor below me. I did this by having the advice of my classmate in mind(she has been living here for a year already) that if I want to learn Estonian I should speak with my neighbours. And it went (quite) okay, when one of the ladies asked me who I was, "we don't know you, where do you live?" the other one answered "kortteli 8" (aparment 8). So those old ladies spying on everybody they are everywhere. But these two seemed really nice and they were patient with my fake(Finnish)Estonian. I try not to speak English or Finnish with people if they ask me something (like on the street or in the cab) and I hope this desperate act will make me learn this language. Because I really want to learn it! Since I also begin to love Tartu and being here.
Okay the clock is about 4am Sunday morning and I don't want to go to bed, but since there is no one only in facebook or msn maybe I will have to. Tomorrow I have to get some serious studying done, cause even though I decided not to retake my jointexam I still have Histology on Tuesday and Analytical Chemistry the day after that. On Monday TASLO; the Finnish medical student's society here in Tartu has a introevening for us with free food etc. So I won't be studying that much on Monday I assume...
Well I hope you have had a nice weekend; at least I had! :)
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