1st snow flake of the winter!

yuhuuu bloggie~

the 1st snow flake of 2008's winter landed on my eyelash today... last year we were taking pics like crazy.. but i guess we kinda got used to it already.

neway on the way to nursing therapy class today it was snowing heavily.. n this continued the whole day. But the temperature was only +1.4 dgrees today so the snow flakes quickly melted as it landed. All we got from a whole day of raining snow was muddy roads.. n it aint purty.

Hoping the winter wont be too cold this year.. i just hate wearing socks to bed.. my toes need breathing space too~ lol. The central heating in the building is still sufficient for now.. but i have my 9-fin heater on standby if ever it gets too cold.

its getting dark real early too.. 4:30pm n it already looks like 8pm. In a way its quite helpful. It makes u think tat its 10pm n u tend to study earlier now.

well enuf about the weather report hehe... todays Nursing theraphy class was interesting.
remember the theoretical injections class the other day? well today was our practical.
we met our dear old patient again (mr pillow) n began stabbing the poor thing.
the "right" way of course. Madam Yelena was keeping a watchful eye on us the whole time. While practicing our intravenous injections on Stacy.. (lol.. yep my roomate was also the patient of the day.. altho we dint actually inject her), Madam Yelena was attending to patients in our class. She was expertly multi tasking between us and her patients.

However there was this one patient tat my heart went out too.. She looked well, in her 50's mayb, but seemingly very unhappy. Madam took her blood pressure.. talked with her.. and asked her..

Madam: Kak vei chustvuitye? (how do u feel?)
Patient: fvse ploxa... ochen ploxa (everythings bad.. very bad)
Then madam was obviously comforting her.. holding her hand.. but i couldnt understand the rest of their conversation anymore..
And as madam did this.. the lady burst into tears.. and continued crying even as madam went out to do something.
We tried not to stare.. but u cant help but want to console someone when they have seemingly received a bad diagnosis. Still.. wat cud we do.. we cudnt even talk russian properly yet.

so we just continued to do our little injections into the pillow. Thankfully she stopped crying soon after..

We figured out why madam went out soon after.. she wanted the class to go follow the nurse on her rounds so that she could have the room to herself n the patient.

Off we went then... following the nurse, observing her. As we entered the wards with the nurse.. a lot of old people were there.. they were all so loving n friendly.. calling us in to study them... some even tried to make friends.. damm! shud really improve my russian.

priority num 1 : study the language better!! i am gonna be here for another 4 1/2 years.. huhuhu...

well tats all for now~

over n out~