Bouncy Obstacle Course

What is the point of living one of the most vibrant cities in the world if you don't advantage of it? There are always so many events going on in London.

A new breakfast drink is trying to break into the UK, and they have set up a bouncy castle style obstacle course in South Bank as part of their advertising campaign! I saw it in Time Out magazine, and decided to give it a go in the afternoon after my morning lectures. Take a look at the obstacle course...

 This is what it looks like from a far...

 Slither through the holes...

Jump over the low ones and roll under the tall ones...

Strawberry Jam and Summer Drink

After a busy day of running errands, exercising and meeting up with a surgeon for a potential project, I decided to spend my evening making healthy strawberry jam. This is a recipe from Deliciously Ella's book. I also decided to make a healthy summer drink- pineapple and grapefruit green tea with passion fruit.

These strawberries were not the best, they didn't look that tasty for eating, and I've never made jam from scratch before, so why not?

All you need is strawberry and honey and chia seeds. 

Admin, admin, and more admin

At my medical school, the first clinical year has three major 12 week rotations of different placements. While I thoroughly enjoy my time at placement, the beginning of each of those 12 weeks brings a fair amount of anxiety and stress.

Before we start, there is a long waiting period for our timetables. For my last block, I didn't receive my timetable until 2 nights before I was due to start. Not a lot of time to prepare and know what's coming my way. The good thing though, the timetable was quite self-explanatory and easy to navigate around.

For the first rotation, it was just plain confusing. There was two hours allocated for us to sit down with the module lead to go through the timetable on a Monday morning! We still didn't know where to go for some clinics after that... I promise we are not stupid students- medical school is just so massive and hospitals and clinics are all over the place.

Friday Morning in Theatre- Edited

I want to be a surgeon. Therefore I value all the opportunities I get at Medical School to watch surgery. I've attended theatre quite a few times, but yesterday's experience was like no other. I met the fiercest nurse ever in my life. And she was not fierce in the good sense of the word.

Like most days, when a medical student arrives at theatre, the consultant surgeon is nowhere to be found. They are usually late, so I'm always hanging around feeling a bit lost and trying to find the relevant people and the right place. This happened again (the theatre I was meant to go to was closed that day...) but it was no big deal as I was used to it. So I introduced myself to the theatre sister (the nurse in charge), and wondered who and where the consultant surgeon was. She was a short oriental lady. And she was very loud. Straight up, she told me she didn't want a medical student watching the surgery because the patient had an infection and the operating theatre was small. I stuck around anyway, because I wanted to meet the consultant and see what he says.

After around 30 mins of waiting and trying to figure out where I was supposed to be, the consultant arrived. He told me it was fine for me to watch. Then he went off again to get changed. When I was left by myself, the theatre sister told me go away again. I didn't want to antagonise her by saying the consultant said it was fine, so I said I just need to wait for him to come back to sign my attendance sheet. Then she said she can sign it, and then said that after she's signed it I can't just run off with my boyfriend for the day. She told me to go to the library and study vascular surgery. This was unnecessary. I didn't mention I had a boyfriend. I didn't even want to leave in the first place! And it's called surgery. In order to learn surgery, you actually need to SEE the procedure! It's not just something you can learn from books. I was very unhappy about the way she was speaking to me but I let it go.

So the morning wasn't off to a great start. But then something pretty amazing happened.

Weekending 18-19th April

Weekends are always more active and fun when my boyfriend is here visiting. We also had the pleasure of British sun on Saturday. Therefore we took a nice stroll from Camden to Embankment with several small stops on the way.

Tavistock square at UCL Bloomsbury campus- looking glorious in the sun. 

Inside Russell Square. Where there is an arch, pose under it.