It's been a while since I've blogged, and as nice as it would be to update o the recent going ons in my life, I don't really want to. I just finished finals this past Thursday. I started studying about a week before which is the earliest I've started studying for anything in my life. I even went to the library twice for six hours each time. Of course I wasn't focused the whole time.
This is how you study at Loma Linda...
You go crazy for a whole...
But then you buckle down and get to it...But there were some breaks from studying. I attended Kristina's residency graduation. She is officially an independent nurse. Hooray!
Giselle and I also had to bury our fish. He lasted one month. A word to the wise, don't buy your fish at Walmart. When we bought our fish, he was one of the remaining five fish that weren't dead.
We buried him in a tree on campus. It was only fitting.

For dead and finals week, our dorm provided us with an unlimited amount of popcorn, hot chocolate, apple cidar, and chai latte. But that amount of sugar, salt, studying, and late nights leads to some craziness, which Giselle proudly displays.
But the craziest thing I have seen so far in Loma Linda was this:
camels..
sheep...and a donkey.The Campus Hill Church was having a Christmas program which involved live animals. We didn't stay for the program, but we managed to take pictures with the animals.

I only had two finals this quarter, one was really easy and the other was not so easy. Actually, the other one, Med-Surg II, I freaked out about. I had that final on Thursday, and I was really nervous and anxious while starting to take it. It's a 120 question final, and around question 17 or 19 I start to have an anxiety attack. My heart starts beating fast and irregularly, my breathing is fast and shallow, my skin feels clammy, my eyes fill with tears, I feel dizzy and feel like collapsing to the floor. I was really nervous that I would fail this test and have to retake the class. I even thought about fake fainting, but realized that everyone would be looking at me and would probably be sent to the ER. My symptoms passed after a few minutes, and I finished the test. It turns out that I did just fine of the test. That's the second anxiety attack I've had. The first one was more minor than this one, but both of them were in nursing school. That's not too good. But now it's over, and according to others, I'm over the hump and it gets better from here. I counted how many pages of lectures notes I had for Med-Surg II alone, and I had 852 pages. That does not include supplemental notes or reading material. That is just 852 pages of notes for 36 hours of lecture. Wow.

After finals, I got to relax by going shopping and to a Christmas party. It was a La Sierra party, but 50% or more were SGA people, especially '05ers.
There are more people but they were MIA for the pictures.
After the party, Jen and I went to IHOP. We made a graph that showed how much we hung out with each other each year we've known each other. It's so pretty.
So there it is. I figured I'd write a longer one with pictures since I don't know when I'll have time to blog again. Hasta luego!