Week 5 done!

Its hard to beleive it is almost October! I've been kept busy without much free time.

On club day I joined way too many clubs, but I couldn't NOT join them! I ended up getting the Crictical Care Club, Equine Club, American Association of Feline Practitioners club, and the Theriogenology Club. These clubs have regular meetings, talks, and rounds in the hospitals. Critical care club lets you sign up for evening shifts at the intensive care unit for small animals. I had my first shift this week and there wasn't a whole lot going on (luckily for the animals, unluckily for me), but it really is luck of the draw!

We've also signed up for volunteering with the teaching beagles, horses and cows. We have one day a week where we walk the beagles, and groom the horse/cow assigned to us. It is a nice break to actually get to be around LIVE animals...

... since we spend way too much time with our anatomy cadavers (aka dead dogs). the Formalin must get to our heads becuase most of us name them (ours is Roufus). Our class has a tendency to freak out and spend too much time in anatomy lab, and tutorials... even thought we've only had two quizzes so far. I kicked butt on teh anatomy one :) And think I did very well on the animal behaviour one.

Midterm month is the other name for October. We have 8 midterms to go through... most worth 40-50% of our final grades! Kind of intimidating, but I'm not overwhelmed -quite- yet LOL.

Tomorrow is Open House for the vet college. this is when all of the vet students put on displays and showcase the vet college and hospital to the public. It is a big production and should be lots of fun... then tomorrow night we celebrate 3 of our classmate's birthdays with a big party :) Looking forward to that... last time to have fun before midterms!

I've had a bit of time to play with my camera (and new lens!). I got some lovely sunset shots one night...



And a couple weekends ago I went with a friend of mine to watch the Maritime Quarter Horse Association show in Sussex, NB. It was raining on saturday and we left a bit early on Sun, but I got a few pictures :)

Orientation week

This week flew by fast! We started right into classes and labs on monday. A lot of people in my class seem overwhelmed already... I haven't started to hyperventilate yet though. :) The second year class has kept us busy out of school for orientation activities. Sunday was a day at the beach, monday we had class pictures with our blue coats, tuesday was capture the flag (which ended abruptly after 5 minutes when our leader went for a dive into the pavement and ahd to go get stitches). Wednesday was the buddy-mentor potlock. Our class had to bring the main course. It was amazing how much food there was and how many people showed up! The buddy-mentor idea is to partner students up with someone in each class as well as a faculty member and a staff member.

Thursday was the long awaited pubcrawl event. We were sorted into teams of parasites. Our team was Giardia (aka Beaver Fever)...and we were decorated with face paintings. Throughout the night our teams competed against each other in various games and tasks (mostly involving beer... bleh).



Just because our team was special, being Giardia, we got to wear diapers!



The trek between the first and second bar was lead by our very own Dr. Foley playing the bagpipes. Its great to see our profs supporting pubcrawling with an 8:30 am class the next day!!



Friday morning surprisingly most people showed up for our 8:30 class in immunology. That shows some dedication.

Saturday night was the final hurrah for orientation with a Maritime party at a pub downtown with a band playing maritime music. It was much more relaxed than thursday night, but just as enjoyable.