Dundundun DONE!

Hi there; Birdie here!

I have now finished my first year of veterinary school! I'm not totally sure I did well enough to keep my A in bacteriology, and it would kind of suck if that class is the only one I get a B in this semester, but I passed and that's what matters. And hopefully it will work out, it usually does.

It feels kind of weird to not have to study. Like, I'm not just taking a break between exams, I'm done.

Not too much has happened since my last post. We did role plays in my Human-Animal Bond class. The class split into groups of 3 to talk about the scenario, then one person went up to play the veterinarian. But if they didn't know what to say, the others in the group could help them out. We only did two scenarios per group and I personally didn't get to go up and be the veterinarian at all (yes, I kind of wanted to--it's really good practice!) but I did say at least one thing to help both of my groupmates when they were up. Our scenarios were really tough: an unexpected death of a boarding pet, and an elderly client who kept changing the subject from euthanasia of his declining aged pet. There was at least one funny scenario, too: a client whose pet looked worse despite having a condition that's easily treatable with medication. Our teacher who acted as the client played it as comedy, too. Oh, and I told that teacher about my undergrad thesis. She asked to read it (she still has it, actually), and she told me about a veterinarian communication conference. It's every other year, so it'll happen in my third year, but she said she'll keep me in mind and see if they can find funding so I can go!

I still haven't got flights for VLE. I just got an email with the contact info so I guess we're supposed to call ourselves...I'm kind of hoping the other student from LSU going with me will deal with it.

I'm staying in Baton Rouge today for packing/I don't even know what else, and heading home for the summer tomorrow after Pathfinder. After this weekend I'll be out of town for the next 5 weekends, so I really wanted to be here for this one.

I probably won't be updating this blog too much over the summer. I'll try to do an update on VLE at least, but since I have no plans to do anything vet-related, I'm not sure I'll have anything interesting to say.

Happy summer!