Thanksgiving is Nearly Here!

Can you believe that Thanksgiving 2011 is nearly here?!  In exactly 2 weeks from today, I'll be on my way home to spend Thanksgiving with my parents, a welcome break from my amazingly crazy/busy school schedule.  After that it's a week back at school, then 4 weeks home for Christmas!  It's so hard to believe that the fall semester is drawing to a close, and I can cross one more semester off my list.  This spring promises to be even busier, since I have to take two classes not in the program (to hopefully finish meeting my pre-requisite requirements).  I was told to take another fine arts course either in the spring or summer, but since I'm sure the spring will be at least 18-19 hours with my extra 2 courses included, I'm going to try to save that fine arts course (if I do end up taking it) for the summer.  I plan on talking to the registrar's office, because I've been told two different things by two people and if I don't have to take another course, all the better for me time wise and better for my parents finances-wise. 

I have my first test for this 2nd round of classes on Tuesday.  I think that this round has fewer tests than the first round did, which can either be a good or bad thing.  One class has a ton of projects (all of which I've finished except for 2), while another is more practical and hands-on with everything.  In that class we practiced IV injections, placing IVs and IV catheters, drawing blood, etc. just this week.  It's been a fun time since we get to apply what we learn in practical ways.  In our Food Animal Lab on Monday, I was lucky enough to witness the birth of a calf to a first time mother.  Our professor had told the first lab group (we were the second/last) that we'd probably never be able to see that happen at the dairy, and we ended up seeing a birth that very day at the end of lab!  It made being out there later worth it, and it was a first-time experience for me that I enjoyed.  I've never seen the birth of an animal, and as the calf was born, I'll be honest, I kind of got choked up.  It's amazing that an animal that large can be in another animal during that time.  Miracle and wonder of God's creation!  I look forward to getting to hopefully help with more things like that in my future. 

Well, I'd love to make this a lot longer, but I've got radiology shadowing this afternoon, and I have to finish getting ready! :)