Weekend at the coast

Workpeople and me spent a weekend on the coast in the holiday inn in surfers paradise (ie thats on the gold coast) for staff rates, cheap as.. view from one of our rooms out of 21st floor

I left Friday at 11am in our last week of standardized patients, being totally buggered. Was suppossed to stay for some lectures but I decided to skip it since the coast seemed a lot more appealing :)

soozi and jad

obviously, three weeks of total stress couldnt be finished off better than on the beach with friends and minor partying ;)

moreover, i got my 3 workbooks back on that friday, got 3 high distinctions so i thought " I AM OUTTA HERE" i dont need anymore lecutres, lol =)

meeeeeeeeeeer, leider war das wetter nicht soo toll am zweiten tag, bewölkt... :-/

Jo, me and Glenn (all MJ's staff)

half of the restaurant staff getting served in a thai restaurant :) we are such a great team, all young, students, easy going, so work is more socializing then anything else. so glad that i have that job, have honestly never said "oh no i have to work" how lucky am i, also found very good friends.

such yummy food and nice table cover, u could draw an, we had a little art piece in the end

we were the hard core while the others were suckulalas and went home semi early

yeah not sure....haha

brunette now

party in the room at 4am- jumping on the beds is lots of fun,havent done that in a while ;)

other room's view

Weihnachten

das lässt mir das Wasser im Mund zusammen

we had very yummy korean food for our christmas dinner, self made dumplings, meat prepared in an authentic korean pan and i made dessert-obviously :-P goooooooooood food!

Opa helped me making the dumplings, i cut, he filled, kim prepared the meat, papa fried....good division of work

our tree, smaller than usual but at least as nice. thats where we spent the rest of the night together, us six in front of the fireplace, i love christmas- the whole familiy together, irreplacable!

2nd public holiday with my sisters fam and her saxophon :) ...that was a bit wilder than the first two very relaxing days due to these two little most lovely "mischief-makers"


and the best breakfast in the world, papa frühstück, lecker schmecker, thats something i do miss here in australia

1. Weihnachtsfeiertag

Kim, Regina, Flo und Felix

Flo, Felix, Bene und Max

Oma und Opa

mein Cousin Max, Onkel Dieter und meine Tante Irene

alle Enkel von Oma und Opa von Mama's Seite

Nachschub- Silvester 2009 in Stuttgart

Silvester 2009 sollte in Stugge gefeiert werden....

mit sehr sehr leckeren self-made Cocktails...

homemade Pizza...

und einer tollen Crew (von rechts) Chrissi, Matze (Co's Freund) und Co und Freund von Matze in Co's sehr hübschen Wohnung, schon ein Unterschied zu meiner Studentenbude ;)

Co mit ihrer persönlichem Hairstylist und Makeup Artist

Co und ich, der Abend war fortgeschritten, kaum zu erkennen :-P

und mit Chrissi

okaaay, der "Liebe-Liebe-Dance" (a la Schnulli)

die party crew. Um halb 8 waren wir im Bett, das nenne ich eine erfolgreiche Nacht. Danke Mädels

They are coming

Here they are, my absolute besties from home, Co (left) and Chrissi on New Years making a deal to spend New Years together in 10 years time.

I am so excited....they booked their flights to Australia in December for my graduation and for the best holidays ever :) wow, my girls and me HERE in australia when I am finished, awesome degree in my pockets, freedom in my hands,we all together, too good to be true. CANT WAIT!!!!!

Valentines Day

The two lovebirds having a very special day, different to what you would expect on the 14/02 but very amazing

First year for Anna dreading that day but I took good care of making it a nice day as a SINGLE- huh. Being three single girls in our house, there was really no time to be upsett. We just made it a "ah gross these lovebirds, cant u get a room"- day haha. So after I worked a morning shift at the hotel, I had one of the most satisfying snoozes in a while. The first two weeks of standardized patients at uni were really very draining, I felt that I did reached the end of my energy levels, maybe not that much physically altho I was soooooooo tired but more being mentally exhausted.

Brisbane at night from the Southbank side, I love love love Brisbane's skyline, it's really nice atmosphere because altho u have a big city right in front of you, it is very calm and quiet on the other side of the river (not my photo)

Lagoon at Southbank, so you have this artificial beach with the river and skyline behind
So our plan was a delicious picknick at Southbank and thats how we did: delicious couscous salad, different cheeses, strawberries, grapes, kiwis, rasperries, nuts, dried fruit, wine, grape juice, crackers, dips, tropical fruitsalad...yummo.¨

this philadelphie cheese is so good, u tip it over and this chilli mango sauce flows over it mhmmm. With VERY full bellies we made our way to the movies and snuggled in to watch...hmmmm.... 'valentines day' - obviously. Great night, thanks girlfriend =)

bye bye blondie

So, ein letztes Foto von meiner blonden Maehne....so bissl Bedenken hatte ich ja schon aber, wie so oft, habe ich nach meinem geliebten "just do it" Prinzip gehandelt.

Es war Zeit fuer eine Veraenderung. Hatte ja schon laenger mit dem Gedanken gespielt aber jetzt habe ich ihn endlich in die Tat umgewandelt.

Anstatt 150 Dollar fuer nen Friseur zu bezahlen hab ich mich schlau gemacht und mir zwei Farben gekauft. Und zwar muss man dem gebleichen Haar die Rottoene wieder zurueckgeben denn sonst kann man eine sehr fahle oder sogar gruen blaeuliche Haare bekommen. Gesagt getan, Kirsten, unsere neue flatmate, bzw wir ihre neue, hat dann im Wohnzimmer aufm Sofa die Haare gefaerbt, schliesslich mussten wir ja grays anatomy schauen, easy going aussies huh. Das war die erste Farbe mit Rottoenen...schaut eigtl schon ganz gut aus aber war doch noch nicht so ganz toll, etwas fleckig und so, kein Wunder bei meinen 3 Million verschiedenen Farben die ich auf meinem Kopf hatte bzw paar Teile gebleicht, ein paar nicht.

Naja und heute hab ich dann selbst, gaaanz alleine, jaja, noch die letzzte Farbe druf, und so schauts aus. Anders und dunkler als ich wollte, aber mir gefaellts schon auch und vorallem wird mein Haar jetzt mal bissl gesuender aussehen und ich muss nicht staendig in der Sonne bleichen sondern kann mal ne Kappy aufsetzen beim Beachen um doch mal noch mehr auf meine Haut aufzupassen.

Australia Day 26. Januar

nicht soviel dazu zu sagen, es ist ein feiertag, alle zeigen ihren stolz fuer australien und haben bbq, pool parties und trinken all day long. an dem tag war es so dermassen heiss dass man es ohne pool nicht ausgehalten hat, wir hatten n planschbecken, naja zumindest....

wir waren beim bowls club, den sport den die alten eigentlich spielen aber da machen an oz day die jungen auch irgendwie party? mit seiner kugel moeglichst nahe an die kleine weisse zielkugel rankommen....gab gutes price money.

aussie farben sind natuerlich ein muss...keine ahnung was sich sammy gedacht hat. nachteil: er muss geschwitzt haben wie ein baer, vorteil: er hat gut aufmerksamkeit aufsichgezogen und mit der frottestoff hat sich so toll mit wasser vollgesogen, dass er den schoenen kuehlen effekt noch lange nachm plantschen hatte. kinda clever.

die zwei blondies, sara und ich

ich, sam und sara

two weeks down

Wow, I am EXHAUSTED. My brain feels fried. Once I even went for a nap in the library...haha...Finished the muskulo-skeletal stream today, lectures tomorrow, how easy. I had sooo much to tell but now I am sitting here and cant think. Most important thing: i coped. I did have one shit patient session cos he was a groin patient and i wasnt too confident with the whole undressing and palpating part and he noticed that and as soon as u hesitant, they smash you. I still did my thing, right techniques but the atmosphere was just not there....but every other patient after that i smashed. Especially today I got amazing feedback, so stoked. The workbook we had to fill out was quite intense tho, I havent done anything else but uni work and normal work this week, early to late. It were 100 pages for 4 days, at least 2 cases a day, but I just finished it, so that should be good and I dont care too much ie other ppl write in with pencil, take notes and then do it again whereas I just do it straight away in there and leave it, fullstop! No going back, my first thoughts should be right and dont ever make the mistake and start comparing with other people cos that stresses you out. Well I ended up giving some boys my workbook today, LOL...ok i cant concentrate on ANYTHING anymore now.

Second day down...

... and I am still alive. Wohoooo. So yesterday, we were in a group of 5, all sooo nervous but our clinical educator was really nice, he is a funny guy so it went all well. Today we were in a a group of 3, first patient in the morning had a surgery on colon the day before and we had to mobilize her and check her lung function etc. Man, she was sick and not feeling well, grumpy and in pain and then u come in and have to get her out of bed and cough, all the things that make her feel worse and sick and give her pain. A

anyway, I interviewed her and she cld hardly follow me but I talked about her kids for a bit so then her mood was pretty good and she answered all my questions. When we mobilized her, we got a bit tangled up cos she had so many attachments and we had to take the big oxygen thing, once one of the catheters was pulling, oops, and she reacted also when we disconnected the ...well i use lame terms...poo-bag and blood-bag above the level of her insertion so she must have felt the pressure....so many things to watch. then she felt sick and wanted to vomit, couldnt hold herself up in standing....a lot of responsibility.

funny thing, how u feel like a doctor with the stetoscope around your neck and stuff, LOL, not quite there but can do a few things as well :) so amazing how they trust you so much. it's cool!

Second case today, just now this arvo, massive bed chart and medical history. We take like half an hour to go thru the charts and values and tests, medications, history etc pp....and i wish doctors would have learnt to write properly. so hard to read. not even mentioning the millions of acronyms- no who needs words....totally overrated.

anyway, that's really hard to understand the condition and the meds and how it all affects our treatment, contra indications, safety issues. Wow, i have learned so much in these two days tho which i kinda like. I like learning, the more I know, the better physio I will be. Exciting stuff.

But treating an unwell patient who just came from surgery is hard, sometimes they hallucinate or as i said, faint on you or vomit....we'll see how that all goes. I had to do the assessment of the cardiac patient this arvo and he told me I was the best of the whole day, WOP WOP, my talking was very nice, efficient, not too much, understandable, not too many medical terms and, what is most important, he felt very comfortable me being his physio and how I treated him and i established good rapport. YESSS! that made my day. Going home now and relaxing. Long day and my brain is exhausted. We have this after-exam-feeling a few times a day, puh. Ok no tears today but big confidence boost!!