Christensen Blog

So it has been a while since I have written. You may have heard that I went out on a date! It is true. I actually went on two dates. Crazy I know. They were with Warrenn Robinson. His dad was a professor at BYU. Mom had him for women's chorus. He taught classical voice. Anyway, I met Warrenn at church, Break the Fast, and he asked me out at our institute class for old people (25+). We went with another couple to see the Rincon stake's production of Pirates of Penzance. Kevin Neilson from Brigham City was Fredrick. Small world eh? It was great. The police chief was my favorite. Warrenn asked me out again after institute that next week. It pays to go to institute :) His eternal marriage prof from BYU came and was giving a marriage conference so we went to listen to him talk. It was a little weird for a second date going to talk on eternal marriage. Before that we went and had dinner at Costco. That was a first for me. After the talk we went over to a girl in my ward's house and played pool and scatagories and had ice cream. Warrenn is a really nice guy and we have a lot in common. He can even quote Strictly Ballroom! Anyways that was the end of that. I think he has a goal of going on a date once a week so he asked my visit teachee out the next week and they have been going out ever since. Oh well. It was fun while it lasted.
School has kept me quite busy these days. I have had much better clinical experiences these past few weeks than I did in the begining. A few weeks ago I had my pediatric rotation. I went to an elementary school and to Casa de los Ninos. Casa is very similar to the Casa I was with in Houston but is about four times as big. I loved working with the kidos. It was a nice break from the hospital. The coolest thing that I have seen thus far, besides surgery, would have to be seeing a chest tube be put in. The patient had a lot of fluid in his chest which was causing his lung to collapse. You put a chest tube in to drain the fluid and the lung will reexpand. Unfortunately the patient wasn't going to get better. He went home to be put on hospice. I have clinicals Mon-Weds. for eight hours and then I come home and work on assignments and study for tests. Thursday and Friday we meet for class. We are half way through the semester! I have survived 5 months. Tomorrow I go to the GI(gastrointestenal) lab where they do colonoscopies and such. Hopefully I will get the opportuninty to try putting in an IV. I am scared but I need to practice on a real human being!
Socially life has been good. The institute program down here is really good. They have an activity almost every week. On Fridays they broadcast the BYU devotional and have lunch for a dollar. I really like the class I go to on Weds. nights. There are a lot of comments and I always learn something. The class is taught by everyone. We all just take turns. On Friday there was an institue dance/halloween party. I dressed up as a girl from the fourties. I looked up online how they did their hair and bought red lipstick and matte foundation. I took forever to do my hair and it didn't turn out like it was supposed to. I figured something out and it was ok. I think I looked pretty good. None the less, it was fun to look at the hairstyles and now I can really appreciate the simpler styles we have today! My friend took pictures so hopefully and can get some from her. Since it took me forever to do my hair, I didn't get to the dance until late and missed most of the activities. It was fun to dance though. I also went and took pumkin seeds from the pumpkins other people had carved. Yum!
Well that about sums up my adventures from the last two months. I hope all you birthday boys had a spectacular birthday! Love you all and miss you!!!!!!
Kira