Every week I send out an update to the medical school, which gets send out as part of WGW (What's Good Wednesday), an email where the associate deans of students compiles the professional and academic accomplishments and life events of the student body in an effort to help keep us connected even though we are spread out across lecture halls, campuses, and hospitals across the state. Usually populated by sporadic submissions of significance, after talking with friends before I left, I decided to twist the format to suit my needs to stay connected to my class. After the fifth week of consistent submission, my update was given it's own special place and title: Kassel's Corner.
Outside of academics she entertained herself by traveling the city of Ely (the second smallest city in England with a population of 18,000) to hear evensong in the magnificent Ely Cathedral. Her parents visited Cambridge and she showed them around to all of the pubs. And lastly she spent a bit of time in London over the break--her favorite part was visiting Highgate Cemetery, Hampstead Heath, and Hyde Park (where there are "wild" parakeets!).
Kassel Galaty (currently metamorphosing into a Med21) is still (still!) in the UK, where the term started yesterday. The breaks are 6 weeks long here, which means they are long enough that everyone is longing for classes to start again by the end. In the short time of term starting she has already attended a lecture about "The contraceptive pill in Ireland: activism, women's agency and doctor's authority in the 1960s and 1970s," and hopefully there will be many more to come. She spent the last week mostly procrastinating on her next essay and rowing (which she is doing in an effort to be as Cambridge-y as possible). She has a blister from all the rowing, which she is quite proud of, and she learned a new British drinking game. You take a cereal box and people have to pick it up with their teeth without their hands touching the ground. You slowly tear the top of the box off until you're left with nothing but a piece of cardboard on the ground. The fun part is when people fall over. There's no pictures of her rowing (because when she's rowing her hands are v. busy, duh) but there are pics of her blister and the game.
Please enjoy this very British sign:
Cheers!
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