Vet Mummy, An Assessment and Dick Day

I have officially graduated to being a vet mummy.  A few weeks ago, with two other former Graduate Entry students, we hosted 6 current graduate entry students for Mummies and Daddies night (or in our case Mummies x3 night).  The night is meant to be a fun, stress free evening where the current GEP students can see that it is possible to survive the GEP year.  Each one of the mummies was responsible for a course for the meal.  We had puff pastry with cheese and caramelized onions as an appetizer, mac and cheese with salad for the main course and chocolate peanut butter bars for dessert.  We played some cards against humanity and then headed to a bar to meet up with the rest of the mummies and daddies and the GEP class.  All in all it was a very successful evening.

Two weeks ago we had our in class assessment for pathology and clinical foundations course.  The assessment consisted of 20 multiple choice questions for each course which covered material from the first four weeks.  I have to admit having absolutely everything we had learned for four weeks examined on one cumulative integrated exam was very stressful.  However, I was quite pleased with my marks, but what I did discover is that the clinical foundations course is quite a bit more challenging than pathology.  Will definitely have to put a lot more work into that course when December exams roll around!

And lastly, this past Wednesday was Dick Day.  Dick Day is a sporting event between the Edinburgh Royal (Dick) vet school (hence where the name Dick Day comes from) and the Glasgow vet school. The schools compete in lots of different sports including Netball, Badminton, Rugby, Lacrosse, Soccer, Field Hockey and Horse Riding.  This year the event was held in Edinburgh.  I got to play both field hockey and lacrosse.  The hockey was first and after a pretty even first half, we took control and ended up winning 7-3.  That makes is 5 years in a row that Edinburgh has won hockey.  After that I had to run with several other hockey players across to another field to play lacrosse.  Lacrosse was also successful winning 19-3.  Overall it was a great day for Edinburgh winning 9 of 10 sports!  Once the team pictures get posted I will add them to the blog.

So after all of Wednesday's fun it is time to buckle down and get back to work.  I have fallen behind since the assessment.  But in just over a week's time a friend from Guelph is moving to Edinburgh to start a job.  So that is my motivation to get caught up this week.  I want to be able to be her tour guide for her first few days here and not feel guilty!

Today's Halloween sunset - View from my bedroom window

(I know I said I would post pictures of my flat... I'm still working on that I promise!)