The Banana Suit

I know, I know... I missed writing a blog last week. I should have never spoiled you the week before last with such a terrific blog. I got your hopes up last week and you woke up Monday morning disappointed. I'm sorry. But as you were too busy being disappointed, I was busy studying my butt off for Mini II on the Heme, Lymphatic, & Musculoskeletal Systems. It was 101 questions long with an allotted test time of 2 hours and 11 minutes. And believe me, every second was precious during that test. I don't know how some people do it, but I'm one that always takes up the entire amount of time to take a test. During Mini II, someone got up and turned in their test with 56 minutes remaining. I couldn't have even read the entire test in that amount of time, let alone have time to think about each question sensibly and pick the correct answer. Crazy.

It was interesting celebrating Halloween in Dominica this year....or should I put it, not celebrating Halloween in Dominica. The majority of people just pretended like it was any old random day, but every once in a while you would see someone dressed up. As you can probably guess, Halloween was just another Thursday night studying for me. I don't know if I have said this on my blog before, but "classroom studying" is, how should I put this, a strict activity. When you study in the classroom, you have to be quiet. And I mean really quiet! We are all here studying to become doctors, each with a ton of pressure and stress on us, so the last thing we want is people distracting others while they are trying to study. Occasionally a cell phone does go off or someone doesn't realize that their headphones aren't properly connected to their computer so we can hear them listening to the "Barbie Girl" song (mildly embarrassing for that person), but really, the only way you are supposed to communicate with one another within a classroom outside of lecture hours is by whispering. As you can imagine, Halloween was no exception and everyone in the classroom was being respectfully quiet. I can't remember what I was doing (I mean, I'm fairly certain I was studying), but what I do remember was faintly hearing... a song. And not just any song...I'm pretty sure it was Michael Jackson's "Thriller". It was! So I turned around....and what did I find??? Someone dressed in a banana suit, walking from one end of the classroom to the other, dancing, while holding a cell phone playing "Thriller". They didn't say a single word. Actually, nobody said anything. The banana just exited the classroom through a door on the opposite side and they were gone. Never to be seen again. At this point, everyone just kind of looked at each other with the look of "what did we just see". And then...the classroom erupted with laughter. I don't know who it was or why they did what they did, but the person in the banana suit provided me, and I'm fairly certain I can speak for others, a small relief of stress that was much needed. I'll never forget that.

A new block started on Wednesday: Cardiovascular & Respiratory. It's supposed to be a doozey. I hope that I'll have the time to keep you guys updated.

And I think it's mandatory that I leave you with this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEHsIcsjtdI