| | Cynthia Update 2007
January
- Came back to Edinburgh from spending the holidays with the Family in California.
- Started Year 1; Semester 2 of Vet School.
- Went on a long weekend to Italy with Tim. Florence and Pisa, quite nice.
February
- Study, Study & more study
- Froze a bit as this is quite the chilly month in Scotland
March
- Preparing for lambing season, by learning all of the horrible things that can go wrong, especially when the farmer is away. Confidence building for sure!
- More studying
- The daffodils and Crocus are popping up in the Meadows. Gorgeous! Gives me hope that warmth is near!
April
- Lambing in Oxfordshire. Not as scary as I thought it would be. Exhausting, but fun. Learned ton and lost 10lbs. It was warm the whole time. So nice to thaw out!
- Spent a day wandering around the town of Oxford. Cute & quaint.
- Bought super industrial lotion to mend my cracking hands. Il let you imagine where theye been.
May
- Exams....horrifying exams! Ie never been through anything so stressful and mentally debilitating as UK exam month. Week after week of timed essays and spot exams (you look into a microscope and tell them what you see. I want to say blue and purple blobs, but that won do).
- Bear in mind that many of these exams are your ENTIRE grade for the year. Fly or die, baby.
June
- Spent the first weekend in London visiting Chris.
- Went to see Daniel Radcliff in the play Equus. Amazing!
- Spend one week playing with Pigs and another week with Chickens. I don want to eat eggs for a very long time now. Most of the workers at the actory?don eat eggs anymore either. That not good. Please buy free range organic eggs!
- Flew to Newmarket to learn as much as I could about the horse racing industry...and horses for that matter.
- Spent a week working on a horse farm in Gloucestershire. My nearest neighbours were Prince Charles and Camilla. Unfortunately, when I tried to turn up for tea, they weren home. Pity.
July
- Tim and I moved into an adorable and spacious two bedroom flat. It is so nice to not have flatmates anymore. Let me know when you want to visit!!!
- Writing a research paper on West Nile Virus & the horse racing industry. Fingers crossed it will be published in a Scientific Journal by Jan 2008. Began studying for Resits. Resits are what you do in the Summer when you didn pass one of the gruelling exams in May. It basically a o-over.?So nice that that is available. However, when you know that failing a second time means re-doing and entire year of school...including paying the tuition again...it just a little bit of pressure.
August
- Passed Resits! It official I a Third Year Vet Student. (Just a reminder that UK vet school is 5 years, but I completed 2 years in one. Confusing, I know.)
- Tim & I visited New York, San Francisco and The OC all in two weeks. So much fun and so exhausting. Where I grew up scares him a bit ?even for a German it a bit too manicured and polished.
- Celebrated our 1-year anniversary in Los Osos and Tim 33rd birthday with my family. Tim played pin the tail on the donkey for the first time. Too funny!
September
- Tim Mama (Karen) came for a weeks visit. It nice to have her here and tp learn so much about Tim. Especially all the stuff he doesn tell me. 
- Year 2; Semester 1 ?already feeling stressed and overwhelmed by the amount of information we are being given. I feel confident about the concepts, but my brain is not dealing well with the route memorization of drug names, etc. Having to learn all new study techniques for this term. Yikes!
October
- I turned 34 and Miss Lenore turned 13. Yup, wee both getting up there. Didn do much, as Tim & I both have the flu. Ugh!
- Study, study, study
November
- Took a needed holiday in Milan, Italy. Had a great time and got a bunch of early Christmas shopping done for the nieces. Didn get to see the ast Supper?painting as it sold out for ages....something about the a Vinci Code?hype. Not sure, haven read it. Guess Il have to go back to Milan again, twist my arm.
- Study, stress, stress, study....not sleeping very well anymore., quite worried about December exams. I don feel close to being prepared and I not exaggerating.
December
- Exams have come and gone and I still never felt prepared. I think I may have just passed one, but there another that is seriously questionable. Won find out until January if Il be spending another August in Edinburgh taking exams. I really don want to. Who knows!
- Spending the week working the exotics ward at the school. Mostly dealing with Rabbits, but wee had one bearded dragon to play with. Plus I spent one day at the zoo assisting with Penguin surgery. Fun, crazy, but really fun.
- Cleaning house in preparation for Christmas. Having a big feast at our place. Tim Mama is coming to town for one week. Wee hoping to take her to Roslyn Chapel, a historic church and also another a Vinci code?thing...Perhaps I should read the book, go see the movie or something. Wel see if I can find the time.
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