Home for the Holidays

I arrived in St, Andrews Saturday afternoon. On the way we stopped to visit Double Diamond Stables in Moncton. This is where Jessie, her baby Lillie, and Thea's full sister, Lexie, live. So naturally I got some pictures of them, thanks to Dad :)



This is Lexie, Theas full sister. She is about 7 months old. gonna be a big girl :)





Its been fairly quiet here at home. My brother and his girlfriend arrived Saturday night. And we went out to a woodlot to hunt and cut down our Christmas tree. Its all decorated and even some presents are under the tree :) Cody is being his usual good self, not bothering the decorations. He's even sporting a nice red bow to show his Christmas spirit! hehe. I will post a pictrue soon...

Best presents ever!

I am sooo excited to give my presents this year to family and friends!! I wish I could tell you all about them, they are AWESOME :) I think everyone will enjoy them. Hehe. I think it is the best year for me :) Wohoo!! I'm so giddy about it. Hehehe. I will post pictures after Christmas to show what I got...

I'm all done school for this semester! My second exam was a nightmare, third exam went pretty good. In the second exam it wasn't the material at all, I knew it. It was the TIME that got us... Only 2-3 people left the exam before the 3 hours were up. Why was it so long?? There were two profs that taught it, and one was a new instructor and I think she was trying to be like our program coordinator by asking "hard" questions. Except the only thing hard about it was that her first question could've taken 3 hours just to answer. It was worth 30% (with points working out to 54 minutes for that question) and she basically asked us to regurgitate everything she taught us that semester. Oh and be sure to clearly define and explain all terms and various points along the way. Ahhhhhhhh! I did the rest of the exam first because I knew if I didn't I wouldn't get to those questions. I wrote 6 pages on her stupid 30% question and I think I may have answered half of it. Geez. And if I'm one of the top students, I'm scared to know how other people in our class fared... We're already losing 2 people, I hate to think how many more will fail out because of a time issue rather than and information issue :(

Exams

I had my first lecture exam today, Anatomy/Physiology/Pathology (aka APP). It went rather smoothly! A lot of writing, since I could remember everything and had so much to say :) Then at the end of the exam I find out there was choice for one of the profs and I ended up doing all the questions. Ha! Well maybe he'll drop the worst one for me!

I had such a great time on Sunday... can't tell much about that right now. Details will come later ;) But I am too excited and can't wait to share!! hehe. sorry guys!

Not much else going on in Truro... should get back to studying for Animal Medicine Nursing, which is tomorrow at 1:30. Then my final exam is Friday at 1:30. Almost done!!

Lunchtime riding!!

Lucky me :) I get two and a half hours at lunch tuesday and thursdays... soo whats one to do? Go riding of course! A drug along a friend to take pictures and I was all set. Hehe.

Here we are walking:




Trotting/jogging:







And cantering/loping:




And for some grainy video clips :)

A Photo Blog

Here are two kittens at the school clinic. I took these on my last kennel duty shift of the semester. They are so tiny... they're actually 12 weeks old but look like they're bearly 6 or 7. We hope they will make it as their other 3 litter mates didn't :(



Waiting outside the anatomy lab for our profs to set up our rotation test! It takes them forever...



After the test, and disecting more muscles...


Thea looking cute in the 18 degree weather we had today! She must have enjoyed the weather too because she was feeling good when I rode her! :)

Cool pics!

These pictures may not be so cool to some people, but for us veterinary-minded folk they are :) In Clinical Pathology lab today I got some picture off my microscope. We were seeing a lot of parasite eggs in our faecal floats. Specifically Toxocara cati (round worm) and a species of Coccidia (protozoa)

Procrastinating...

While I should be studying for my 9 tests this week :P I am going to show you cute pictures and videos instead!! Hehe.

Here is a video of Thea I took today:


Here are a few pictures I've taken over the past week or so:




And this is what Thea did to me after being so clean all week!

Greener pastures...

Thea and I took a leap and rode in the fields out behind the race track! I had a friend there to keep an eye on us in case of trouble (and take pictures). She was so good, I'm proud of her :) We walked and trotted mostly and did a little canter up the hill. It was fun! Here are the resulting pictures... the grass looks so green!

Steady as she goes...

School work hasn't really been piling up but they've been steadily giving us more to study each day, which means we don't get much of a break with 4-5 tests a week... We had 2 presentations to do this week as well. Next week we have 2 big unit tests on the same day... and only 36 days to go til the end of classes! :)

Yesterday I sealed the envelope that may seal my fate in the world of veterinary medicine. Yes... I applied to AVC again! :) I liked my personal statement much better this year... last year's was too dry and unoriginal. Now I get to play the waiting game again til March (find out if/when we have an interview) and then wait til May sometime to have our interview, and then wait til mid June to find out if we've been accepted. I hate that its such a long process. I'm sure I'll be doing a lot of stuff between now and my interview, kind of makes the application out of date! But at least I'll have lots to talk about :)

Finally started working Thea again after her unfortunate bad luck the past couple of weeks (sor foot after being trimmed and then reaction to strangles vaccine). I'm looking forward to getting her going nicely undersaddle before the ground freezes! We're also planning on renting the indoor once or twice a week to practise in. Will be nice once the time changes and it gets dark super early.

Here are a few pics I snapped today at lunch when I went to muck out Thea's stall. She loves her buddy Dala :)

College Royal!

Thea attended her very first show last night! College Royal is a show held for the students at NSAC, where they can show their animals. This was actually only the 2nd year they've done a horse show. They're more into the cows, sheep and chickens around here LOL. We entered Advanced Showmanship. I was debating on whether to enter beginner because Thea was definately a beginner seeing as I had only worked her many 4 or 5 times in showmanship. But since I had shown (and placed) showmanship classes in AQHA breed shows... I didn't think it was fair to the other students!

We were supposed to have 5 people in our class, but it ended up only being 3 of us. I was so proud of how Thea behaved. She was listening, standing and doing everything I asked of her. I was expecting her to be spooky, jumpy, and not wanting to stand still! We had a good pattern, the judge even said so, but the onyl problem was that I forgot to back up in the pattern!! Ahhh. We got 3rd out of 3 because of me. Oh well. I was more than pleased with her though :) I have a feelign she'll be a nice showmanship horse like her sister Mascouche!

Here are a few (bad) pics. One of my lovely banding job of her mane, and the others of us before heading over to the indoor arena.

Good times in Halifax!

I had a marvelous time with my friends Liz and Michelle in Halifax this weekend. We had a party at their apartment and then went out to Pacifiko. Lots of fun :) Thanks girls!