Two more sleeps until we'll be in London, one of which is gonna be in Christchurch. Needless to say, I'm SO excited! After a somewhat tiring and extremely busy first week of summer vacation, I'm ready to become exhausted in a different way, a good way. I love being a student because one, you're guaranteed big chunks of time off like this, but more than that, that time off is 100% responsibility and worry free. I'm gonna miss that when it's gone, so I've vowed to make the most of it while I still can. And I think I am, so far.
Starting my research project last week instead of trying to do the whole four weeks in January was such a great idea because it's given me the freedom to work on it in December while my supervisor is away and I technically won't be getting paid. As my LOVELY supervisor wrote in an email to an external party, "Although Anna is not officially working after this week until January, she is very conscientious and will probably do some work in between." Lovely, just lovely! Since he's from the UK we talked for ages on Friday about this and that, him giving me tips on my trip for safety and so forth, and then gave me his home number and said to call at any time if there's anything I need, especially if I needed a "local's" advice and/or help! Even though I have travel insurance, I now feel 100% okay in the instance I get hurt because, hello! I totally have the hook-up to the British Health System and all the top surgeons over there! Hehehe...
The other thing that's been going surprisingly excellent lately is our med student journal which I've been involved with since I started out in medicine. It takes me back to my Yearbook Editor days in the States and I love it. A small glimpse of the alternate life I could have had had I decided to go down a more humanities-oriented path. Which leads me to even more good news as of late, which is that I managed to get my hands on super cheap, basically half-price tickets to fly up to Auckland at the end of January! It'll be so refreshing to just get away by myself for a few nights, meet up with people, have breakfast on the Viaduct, go shopping... lol. And of course, meet some of the Auckland journal crew and most definitely our awesome Chair. It'll be a fun mini-trip! :)) I just hope the weather will be nice.
Other than that, I have to spend the day packing because we're leaving tomorrow! Exciting. I still have a butt load of errands to run and I'm meeting a friend for lunch today too, all of which will keep me busy busy.
It seems I haven't had a moment to breathe this year and it's not slowing down any now with vacation. Funny that.
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