Darn Monsoon!

So I’m here in an internet shop in the middle of Los Banos. My internet during the last few days has been down because of the crazy storm we had a couple of days ago.

The internet shop is filled with people screaming mostly because they’re playing their MMOs (massively-multiplayer online games) and it’s a little annoying, but then again, it’s an internet shop which specializes in gaming. Guess I can’t really complain there. I am in THEIR territory after all.

Anyway, there’s a lot that’s been happening these past couple of days and there will be a lot of things I’ll be doing pretty soon this week. I’ve got two exams in things like Epidemiology and also Veterinary Medicine I, and I’m also the surgeon for our upcoming surgery in our VSUR 152 class this Thursday. My procedure this week will be a gastrotomy and gastropexy operation. I just handed over my materials to my groupmate Faye who’ll be the nurse for the operation and then I headed to the internet shop to catch up on things and talk to my girlfriend and such.

Anyway, I’m gonna go now because I have a lot to do. I just came on to check on my e-mail and see how people were doing and if I missed anything important. Until next time (which I hope is soon if my internet provider will finally fix my internet at home), I’ll see you guys on the flip side.

Wish me luck this week!

Rain, Sushi & Vetlympics!

Horse blood smear. Not a particular good part of the smear since it's at the start of the smear, but I liked this because it has lots of WBCs in one place.

The combination might not seem like it goes together, but it does tonight. Especially for me!

It was another exhausting day for me. Started off with pathology lab where we first needed to get horse blood and examine it. Then afterwards we had our research class, physiology class, and then a pre-operative examination for our next surgical procedure at the Tabon Veterinary Teaching Hospital. I’ll be Assistant Surgeon for the procedure which is esophagostomy. My friend Faye will be heading the procedure.

It shall be very fun I think!

Me and AJ! LVSA's Ms. Vetlympics!

I forgot to mention in my earlier post that I had attended the Vetlympics ceremony this past Wednesday. Vetlympics for those of you who don’t know, is a competition between all of the veterinary organizations in sports and even beauty. The kick off ceremony for the event is a beauty pageant, where each organization at the college offers two of their best candidates for Mr. & Ms. Vetlympics. It’s a fun event to go to, and seeing some of our friends try their best to win the pageant is fun. Some people really go out!

Since I wad made an honorary member of the Lady Veterinarian Students Association (weird yes, but hey, I can’t help that the girls like me :P) last year I attended to support their candidate which was my friend AJ. Since the organization is mostly filled with women, they only had to offer a candidate for Ms. Vetlympics.

Jon's Special hand-rolled sushi!

We had a lot of fun, and even though they didn’t win first place this year, I know they did their best and still had a blast.

Three hand-made sushi rolls. Ultra yummy!

So that’s it for now. It’s raining pretty hard here, and I’ve just made some more wicked sushi for dinner again. I really can’t get enough of this stuff. I

Studying… and Sushi!

So today I didn’t have such a great day. I kinda lost one of our dogs and most of the day was spent looking for her. Then, I had to work on a Pathology report that we thought should’ve taken only and hour or two but took five instead.

After that I made some dinner, which was some Temaki-sushi (hand-rolled sushi) with yummy tuna and cucumber and some seaweed. It was my first time making some sushi-rice and it was really delicious. Best part was, that after making the sushi-rice it was ultra easy to put dinner together. I threw in some kim chi and I had a pretty healthy dinner.

Now off to study for my physiology test tomorrow. Wish me luck!