Start of Term

Hello, my name is Aijing and I am a fifth year medical student... I am looking forward to using this phrase over and over again starting from the next couple of weeks. Four years of my life has gone by studying medicine, and two more to come until I become a doctor! 

This week has been a 'limbo' week. We are eased into the year with four days of 'Introduction and Orientation'. I think there might have been one or two useful lectures. They were about migrants' healthcare rights, which is actually quite a current topic righ now. Other lectures were interesting(ish) but having them back to back right after summer was not appealing, no matter how interesting. They weren't particularly factual lectures too, so overall I was slightly annoyed at medical school for putting this week in as it meant one less week of summer.

All the useless lectures had one good thing though, it meant I could socialise in the evenings rather than studying! I hung out with my friends every night and went back home for the weekend. I went round one of my friends on Tuesday and we made huevos rancheros (sorry if it's spelt wrong!) for dinner. Food was so tasty but I managed to break their tin opener and kill one of their pans. I felt so guilty! On one of the other evenings, someone cooked rather than me, with less disastrous results. He made thai chicken curry and it was delicious.

I also spent a decent amount of time in the kitchen this weekend baking. I made peanut butter cookies, which were crumbly and crunchy. My mum loved them. We bought them to Cambridge when we visited her friends on Saturday. They loved them too. Especially their 3 year old daughter. She was adorable!

Cambridge was so beautiful. I had only been there once before for a university interview, which did not go well, so I didn't get to see much of it at all. I thought it was nicer than Oxford. It felt bigger and less cramped. I look forward to exploring it more when I visit my boyfriend there.

 

                                  

Back to baking: I also made cinnamon rolls. I tried it once on Friday but it was terrible. The baked rolls were so hard and tight. They weren't edible. I tried again on Sunday. They turned out much better! It was full of cinnamon goodness. I had way too many and got heartburn... Ha! Oh well! 

8.30am start tomorrow... So early... It's going to be an early night tonight...