Finally a break

These past two weeks have been super hectic- midterms, coordinating the integrative medicine forum, applying for summer intern jobs, and planning a trip to Southeast Asia that I've completely forgotten to blog. But no fear, I am back again (at least for now).

This past weekend was the Integrative Medicine Forum, which I would have to say was a semi-success. We were competing with so much-Pharmacy Information Day, a BBQ at Bob Day's house, the beautiful weather. But I am glad to say that we had over 85 attendees who took something away from the forum. I have a strong interest for Traditional Chinese Medicine, growing up with traditional and proud chinese parents, so I sat through most of the workshops offered by AIMC and ACTCM, both acupuncture and integrative medicine colleges in the eastbay and San Francisco, respectively. The enrollment was so high in these workshops that I invited back one of the speakers to hold a lunchtime talk in 2 weeks. Future health professionals really need to learn about other healing modalities that people use-especially here in SF.

Afterwards, Bob Day, UCSF's oldest and well-respected faculty members invited student leaders to his home for a bbq. Many of us were looking forward to the break in the middle of the weekend. His wife was warm and welcoming. Hamburgers and sausages were endless. The mini fruit tarts were divine and all of us could not leave his home without bringing a cookie as a parting gift. It is times like these that I think "wow, UCSF IS really a 2nd family".

For the past few days, the weather has been gorgeous! I can't complain. Today was also our aseptic techniques day where we learned how to prepare IV bags, properly withdraw liquid from different gauge needles and syringe sizes and also break ampullae. Finally, what we've been tested on calculation quizzes actually makes sense now. We should've had this lab before all those quizzes so that we could physically make sense of all those calculations.

Anyways, this weekend is memorial day and I am off to LA to work on my tan before finals!! woo-hoo!!!