ACC Championship

Justin and I decided to go to the ACC Championship game this year since it was only 2.5 hours away in Charlotte, NC. We left around 2 on Saturday, the weather was terrible the first couple of hours! It was snowing and sticking to the road and many people were still driving like maniacs around us (even though we passed a bunch of cars in the ditch!) I was driving and it was terrifying especially where the mountain road gets all windy with so much fog I could barely see! But God was with us and we got to the stadium safely with plenty of time to spare. It rained about the first 10 minutes of the game but we didn't really get wet. My feet and hands were pretty frozen the last hour, but overall it was a great game experience (especially since we schooled FSU)! The drive back home didn't take us nearly as long and we got back home around 2:15 Sunday morning. The rest of the day I studied madly for my last Pharmacology Test today. Not only did we have a nice 2 hour delay this morning, but I only missed one question on my test! Wednesday I have my last test in Med-Surg and then Wednesday and Thursday nights are my last days of clinicals (and no paperwork this week :)). The semester is finally almost over...I'm so excited to almost be done and get ready for Christmas fun!

Thanksgiving Break!

I started off my Thanksgiving break with a great Saturday. I started the day off by getting some of my Christmas stuff out of the attic (note to self don't put Christmas candles in the attic- they melt but also make the box smell great!) Yay for Christmas cat mugs!
In the afternoon we watched Tech beat Miami with some friends at Buffalo Wild Wings. Then we headed to the theatre to see Harry Potter 7 part 1. I've read all the books a couple of times so I've always been a little disappointed by the movies. But I guess since the last part is in 2 parts, I thought they actually followed the book pretty well. I'm excited to see the last installment in July!

Still Summer

Everyone has been complaining like crazy about the heat but I'm still enjoying it! Until about a week ago, I hadn't even realized that hey, I'm not usually still wearing shorts near the end of September. Too bad I haven't been able to enjoy it too much since I'm usually inside doing school stuff but it's great to still be able to drive around with my windows rolled down and exercise with the sun shining so warmly. I have no idea what this warm weather means for the coming winter...hopefully nothing too terrible!

This past week has been pretty good. I'm a third of the way through this semester which seems really crazy! I've been pretty busy with studying and clinicals so these 5 weeks have gone by fast!
Monday, my first friend from college had a baby; a beautiful girl named Emma.

I had a couple of tests on Monday that went well. I was a little bummed last weekend that I couldn't do anything fun like go to my friend's wedding in Richmond or watch the game Saturday but all of my studying definitely paid off on Monday.
Wednesday night at the hospital was ok, nothing too exciting there. Thursday instead of going to the hospital at night I went to SimLab earlier. Simlab is Radford's simulation center for nurses where we have different scenarios that involve all the skills we've learned so far and then some. Usually there's myself plus one or two other students and a patient who is a dummy. The dummy talks so it's not like you can just do your stuff; you have to interact with it as if it were a real patient. We are also videotaped during the scenario and then the instructor goes over it afterwards (usually to tell us what we did wrong). We don't really like it, but we always learn a lot. Since I didn't have to go to the hospital Thursday night, I got to go the homegroup. That was nice since I hadn't been able to go since school started.
I'm looking forward to watching the game against BC tomorrow on TV so hopefully tonight I'll get lots of reading in! Another test Wednesday!