My gosh it has gone fast! This past week has been so hectic, exciting, stressful, mind boggling, but i'm so glad we have made it through the first week of uni and being a student doctor! Well the student doctor we were told to call ourselves today in a lecture of foundations of clinical practice for when we communicate with people or patients for communication practice.

I am back home for the weekend for my birthday which is tomorrow! Sweet 19 lol they all sound special :) it feels like i haven't left actually, like the whole past two weeks were a blurr, another life i was living, but things are different, i feel different, and when i look at my room and now see medicine books i have lugged back home i know it wasn't a dream but a new reality and start of a new chapter of life. I feel different also as though i have changed. Being in trinity and at uni you take on the most you have ever taken on in terms of your own development and independence, not to mention meeting many awesome people i now call my friends which i find bring out a new part of me i love which i wont lose. They say living at college and going to uni is more than study and a graduation of a degree, its the study and application of all areas of your life!

Going back to orientation, the tuesday morning we were to head out for earth rehabilitation planting trees or shrubs for the community. I would of loved to be part of it but we had medicine meetings and a gathering of all rural students - 40 overall which is the most rural medical students they have ever taken in! We learnt about help such as uniskills who run tutorials for our learning, but the most exciting part was i was pulled aside and awarded a Medical rural bonded scholarship! I was really excited to actually get one! its going to be such a relief not having to worry about work during uni weeks or how on earth i would pay for college or hecs! Such a relief... of course being in a rural area for 6 continuous years is a big commitment, but i love smaller communities, and if my only worry is my thought of 'what if' well if i live like that and go by waiting to see what happens then i will not live at all, its definately worth it. Walking back we talked to a girl from busselton living in perth called sam who was awarded one too, her excitement reassured mine!

After heading back for lunch we had a slow afternoon backed up in the computer room at trinity as a mob of internet hungry students waiting one by one to get our laptops connected to the internet, an essential to uni life! We soon learned all our communication is mainly done on student emails and a sit known as webCT. This site contains all our information on lectures and assessments and any updates we need to know, with out it we are basically lost or as i was in the first few days, stressed!

That followed with once again a meeting with the heads talk, tea and getting dolled up for the doomsday party! Underagers were off to Q-zar in freo, for the resst of us it was a party at the guild tavern dressed up in white and fluoro colours celebrating.. the end of the world? lol it was so much fun! I'd say it was my favourite party the whole week, we danced, took photo's, danced, had some drinks... lemon lime bitters in my case haha for 3 dollars! Good uni student price :) I headed back alittle earlier with lexi, it would have finished at 12 but the tiredness overcame all too soon and with more parties to come i would rather save my energy to go to all than blow it all on one!

Wednesday morning was a relax time and so glad for it! I spent the morning sorting myself out in my room preparing for uni and went over to emma's room to watch ladette to ladies. After lunch we split into boys and girls. Us girls headed off into the city for a scavenger hunt! In groups of 5 we were tied together and had an hour to hunt for a list of things we were given. It was lots of fun! Some tasks included the middle person wearing a white shirt and getting as much boys numbers as they could on the shirt, bonus poinys if you have a photo of a guy with his shirt off and even more if he is rated as hot, but suprisingly not many guys were willing to have the photo! it was reassuring actually and helped move my stereotype of city guys being cocky even if it is only a minority who are lol. We also had to find how many kangaroos are at stirling gardens, what train runs on a certain line, what the third smoothie is in boost juice, what the price of frogs and banana's are at woolies and find and buy as many things as we can green with 5 dollars. We found cups, hair clips and hair ties and beans! We also had pictures wearing a workers hat and with a policeman and hunted down res club members for bonus points. We finished with an ice cream at mcdonalds and made our way back to trinity and had a group photo. The only thing was we couldn't see the guys. They had been playing lazers around the campus but where were they now? We had suspicions, last time we had a photo we got drenched! sure enough, on the second photo all the boys launched water balloons and buckets of water off the balconies and drenched us head to foot! The girls screams could have been heard a mile away but it was all so well planned and the fact we couldn't see over 50 guys hidden with water buckets.. they had to be congratulated! But be warned boys, we will get you back!