My Countdown is down...

... and I am sitting in Seoul/Korea waiting to board. Only 10 hours separate me from my family. Quite excited! YAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY and I am also dancing on the spot...haha....crazy europeans the koreans must think....no i am containing myself, my smile is fairly big tho, nearly giving me cramps =)))))))

SUMMER

ok I thought I am a very clever girl, get up at 6:45, start studying on the balcony at 7, do one session, go for a run at 9am. Well it was already so hot when I went outside that I decided to go bit earlier but still....this happened.

I needed to protocol that, I have NEVER sweat that much IN MY LIFE. U know there are stages of sweating: a bit under your arms, a bit on other spots, then u get to the point where the sweating stains actually decide to like each other and they "mingle" all over on your shirt :) then comes the level where your skin is shiny everywhere followed by having droplets sitting on your forearms, forehead and I dont wanna know where else :-P and THEN there is the stage where u just drip, not only from your head tho, from everywhere, that was me. I could not believe how much i was sweating, I could have watered plans....I'm serious....it was an orchestra of "drop drop drop"- although i might have killed them cos when I licked over my lips I nearly died from a salt shock, I was massively dehydrated. The run itself was still ok tho, not too hard at all but I did pace myself and did a longer but low intensity run. Anyway, that was my start of my second last study day today, I was quite impressed. And the pic above is the result, omg so sweaty, sun kissed skin, wet ALL over, big 1.5 litre water belly and red face but i always get that anyway.

Haha on Friday I went to gym before work and i didnt give myself enough time to cool down so I looked like a tomato for like an hour and the chefs were just making jokes of me, they could have served me right with the spaghetti, Im not kidding, thats how bad it was. Well I just spent like 10 minutes in the cold room, that helped a little. I see it from the bright side, I have good circulation in my face SCOOORE, haha!

And now I just came back from a swim from a friends place who lives around the corner, too hot to study today and what would be a better break than a swim, exactly, nothing. Ok but NOW im back to study, so enough stories about sweating. I know thats random but it was an experience which the world MUST know, hehe. Ok back to cardiorespiratory prac techniques....nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Endspurt 3rd year

Wow it is so hard to believe but I am so close to be finished with the "theoretical" part of my studies. That is just amazing. Where did the time go? I should have ALL the information in my brain, theoretically, haha, to treat any patient, which is obviously unrealistic because we will learn most by being out there and being exposed to the real stuff but still, it is quite a big step from here on. I have only 4 big exams this year, really not much for us at all, we used to have like 7-8 but 4 is just normal and I dont mind to be just normal :)

I will have to revise a s**** load before I can continue to 4th year so I will have to bring my notes but because my luggage allowance is obviously restricted I had to come up with a plan which implied getting my notes binded, well, at least the very important subjects, I only did like half of the subjects but everything is so organized now, real proud and feel really nerdy :-P So I will just take a few of these massive booklets home...



I had the big cardio respiratory theroy exam today and it went good I think. This is the hardest subject because it is all the theory that is behind treating patient in ICU which is A LOT considering that they often are between life and death and really usually are not that stable and connected to a million machines and at risk of a lot of conditions WHICH we all have to know and understand. SO many numbers and safety issues, precautions, contraindications, side effects bla bla bla but I think I will appreciate it when I see a patient who is not feeling very well and I have to try and improve his status.

Anyway, I have another exam on friday, which is prac exam for cervical spine, again a tough one, especially technique wise, soooo hard and we are not really good at it yet, AT ALL, but it will be enough to get through the exam. I am a bit worried about that one but we'll see. T

hen next week Wednesday it is cardio-respiratory prac exam so that applying all the exercises and machines to the critical ill patient. That should be ok, not rocket science especially once u understand the theory behind it, just again, a shit load of safety issues you have to consider and if you forget, FAIL. Thats scarry but a clear head and being calm is my recipe for approaching these sort of exams. Stressing out just makes u inaccurate und forget things so OMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM :) We even ventilate patients, manually with a bag. In the exam we have a dummy and gloves and the O2, an assitant all the tubes etc and then we are actually allowed to disconnect an unconsciuos patient from his oxygen, connect the bag and then manually inflate him with the technique we think suits him ie lung compliance, rate, pressure, hold, release etc meaning I AM MANUALLY giving this patient O2, and if i stop squeezing the bag or if i forget to press that valve at the correct timing with the other hand he DOES NOT GET OXYGEN?? that freaks me out. Or we put a tube down to his lungs, attach to a machine that create negative pressure, additionally create a suction rhythm by opening and closing valve with thumb, and then while doing all this slowly drawing the tube out and thus removing secretions. This has to happen within 15 seconds because in that technique the patient does not get any oxygen, even scarrier. BUT GOOD FUN too, really exciting stuff. And you have to wear the whole surgical gown, glasses, gloves and then a sterile glove on top of the other one and then u cant touch anything otherwise u contaminate it but the inside of the package with the catheter or the catheter itself. I tell you, thats so hard with all the tubes, coordination required and BANG already contaminated with something. In the exam we can say that we contaminated and we wont fail but we have to recognize it cos u cant put a tube down someones throat that is not 100% sterile obviously.

Ok so much to that and then on thursday we have a bla bla exam about community based physio. bla bla bla. havent even looked at it. Will only read thru the lecture notes the day before, havent even printed all of them due to absence....*räusper*, ohoh, but that should be easy. AND THEN I AM DONE AND DONESKY!!!!!!!!!!

ONLY exciting stuff to come:
thursday after exam straight to pool party
at noon to croquet party all in white of course (remember, they play that in alice in wonderland) including eating and drinking and drinking and celebrating
at night just heading into town straight from the croquet club
I will meet up with my work people for a dinner with BYO (bring your own alcohol/drinks)
and then after go out too and meet up with my peers again
party

Friday
recover
move house, clean room, trying to get organized, move everything to ryans garage and my car loaded up with stuff to friends place where it will celebrate xmas wihtout me :( sorry annamobil II
@ night 21st birthday partyyyyy

Saturday
Gold Coast tournament
@ night another big birthday party back in brissie

Sunday
hopefully still in the comp and playing ball at the goldie
@ night dinner with ryan's dad
will stay with Ryan from Friday on (thats at least my plan, hopefully i can manage it all that way)
and Monday morning I will fly out at 8 so that will be early morning again

THEN i will just CHILLAAAAAXXXXXXXXXX on the plane, eat and watch movies WOP WOP cannot wait. I like flying because noone disturbs you, no phone, no internet, just yoursef with food and entertainment. I LIKE

I will stop over in Seoul and a mate from uni (austrian) is on the same plane and stays in asia for a while THUS he is taking me out in Seoul for that night, then i go back to the provided hotel, eat and sleep (haha again) and fly out to Frankfurt the next morning

honestly HOW AWESOME IS THAT?? only 3 exams are in the way and I seriously should study now. Therefore, I stop bubbling and say SEE YOU ALL SOOOOOOOON! MWUAHHH!!

Physio Ball as 3rd years

3rd physio ball: so strange to be there as a 3rd year. I dont really feel like that but we are the OLD ones, the ones that actually go out there next year for placements with REAL patients. I remember us in 1st year, looking up to them, thinking, omg they must know sooo much. Hmmm I am not too sure it that applies to us as well. We all need a major confident boost for next year cos everyone scares the s**** out of us everytime we have an information session or something. I will write a lot about this I guess cos that takes up most of my mind, more and more the further we get to the end of this semester ie next week. We should have enough knowledge to help ANY patient with ANY problem. AHHHHH....we could be on ICU ward in the hospital, managing patient coming out of general anaesthetics with massive wounds, a million attachments, ventilation, burns, major diseases, cancer, tumours, brain injuries, heart attacks anything why you could have surgery..and THERE U GO....make him function again, get him up his feet, BUT dont make him worse....F-R-E-A-K O-U-T!! But this post is about the ball...

Roweena, our favourite lecturer, our physio mum, had her birthday that night and EVERYONE just loves her. She is wicked. Anyway, Jared held a speech and the whole room with like 200 guests ish were screaming and clapping when she came on the stage and then we all sang her happy birthday and gave her the biggest hip-hip- HURRAAAYYY i have ever heard. She cried, it was touching. And she always comes to our parties, even to some private 21sts, she is always there and just lovely.

pretty girls

Not sure if you remember, but that was my MASSIVE weekend. I was playing volleyball till 6pm, rushed home as soon as I had the medal around my neck and got ready within half an hour including hair. I came home to these three girl having occupied the bathroom for the past two hours. Getting ready together is always good fun. Thank god we had maysam cos she is an expert with hair in comparison to us useless and impatient girls.

Soph, Sam and Sara- they all living together as well. That's the other awesome shared house, its th official pre-party house

have to show off the dress, love love love low back dresses (not a very good scapula/shoulderblade position, anna anna...got some work to do there)


Sweet young Maysam (she only turns 20 in November) oh I am ooooold. She will graduate with 21!!!! insane!

physio couple no.1

men love

bahaha...the Günkel's eye.... very sexy ;)

norwegian-german love...eva is the best flatmate =) we laugh so much at home cause we share this tiny winky teeny little bit of european craziness... :-P

Agnieszka...more Norwegian influence. She totally fits into our house and we cant even notice that we have an extra person living with us, really easy going.

Jason and myself

Martha and Dan aka Mr Midnight (he always sang that bluesy song when he put the mask on)

Sabba and me....Maysam and her are our Muslim girl we have in our course

uuhm...not quite sure...."No, no more photos...." the night is obviuosly progressing

our deal included free drink from 7pm till midnight including beer, wine and sparkling. Orange juice and sparkling it was, for the rest of the night, in masses...oh and Jägerbombs in between, OF COURSE, haha. If you go out with Eva-Linn, they are a must and you will NEVER go home without having them.

It sounds insane, but I managed to go to the volleyball tourney in the morning, was only at like 10am so that was easy and even worked at night but I have to admitt, I had to recover the whole week. It was worth it!!! No more parties now, being a good girl concentrating on the other important things in life, haha, like uni!

That just made my day...

Thursday is my long work day, my shift starts at 7am and goes through till 3 pm ish, depending how busy we are. I used to take the train to work but a month ago or so, I realized how close the city actually is if I cut through Southbank (artifical beach and huge parkland area) and cross over the river on that particular bridge. Anyways, this morning I ran to work which only takes me 35 minutes on the way there cos downhilll and stuff and that is just beautiful along the river, the sun already up, heaps of other people running/cylcing etc and I am more than switched on for the day. The way back is usually not that nice because my legs are quite heavy after running around all morning and so is my belly I filled up with soo much yummy food from the hotel breakfast buffet (as much as I can eat in 30 mins, haha) and I am most likely tired too. But since it is so hot at the moment, I ran to Southbank, jumped into my bikini and jumped into the water and made a pitstop for a good half hour, relaxed in the sun under the palm trees, cooled down in the water and refreshed for the second half of the run home. My point was....Anna what an awesome idea to pack the bikini, that swim was just DELICIOUS =) Love summer, love water!

Mein erstes Mal....

...mit diesem jungen Herrn da.... :-P

Anna und Pferd, das ist wie Schokolade und Chilli, im ersten Augenblick kann man sich die beiden nicht vorstellen aber wenn man es mal probiert, scheint es gar nicht mal so abwägig.

Ja tatsächlich, die Anna ist noch nie geritten, aber einmal ist immer das erste Mal. Eine Freundin von Ryan, Kate, hat 5 Pferde und sie wollte immer unbedingt was mit mir machen (ohne Ryan, hehe) und so kam es, dass sie mich zu ihren Pferden eingeladen hat.

Wir sind doch ein Grundstück ihrer Freundin geritten, das war 285 Acre groß- ein acre hat 4000m2. War also riesig. Ganz normal für Australien aber. Natur pur, war ziemlich cool aber leider auch sehr trocken momentan. Das ist der Grund warum es eher gelb/bräunlich als grün aussieht.

Ein Highlight für mich war natürlich mal wieder das wildlife. Wir haben insgesamt 12 Känguruhs gesehen, die waren aber so schwierig zu fotografieren....weil....ja ratet mal....GENAU, weil die Känguruhs, ja die hupfen ja ganz mächtig schnell und die Anna ist nicht so bombensicher im Sattel.... im obigen Bild hab ich aber eine Mama mit ihrem Kind ins Visier bekommen, die haben uns ewig beobachtet. Voll süß die Dinger, wie sie so auf ihren Hinterbeinen stehen und ihren Hals in die Höhe recken :)

Buschland

Ich hab mich fei (oh yeah, ich wärme mein Fränkisch langsam wieder auf, da ich ja schon in 39 Tagen wieder zurückkomme, gey?) far net doof angestellt, denn normalerweise trottet man nur das erste mal und fängt auch in der Manege an, wenn man das erste Mal aufm Pferd sitzt aber wir sind gleich los in die Wildnis. Bissl mulmig wars mir ja schon auf diesem riesen Ding, das sich meiner Meinung nach total unrhytmisch unter mir bewegt hat, sodass absolut versteiftes Festklammern angesagt war :) Na aufjedenfall ich hab "gemacht": walk, trot und canter....und anscheinend ist das super fürs erste Mal. Aber ist schon schwierig sich da aufm Pferd zu halten, war scarry manchmal weil ich ja doch nicht wirklich so super die Kontrolle über das Pferd hatte. Naja ich hab mich festgeklammert und die Luft angehalten wenns schneller ging, haha :) Ich acknowledge jetzt auch, dass Reiten ein Sport ist, denn ich hab geschwitzt wie nochmal was und meiner inner thighs haben gebrannt :) Supi Erfahrung!

One night in egypt

Cheers to Mandy, she celebrated her 40th birthday and gave us an overall arab experience...I know her through Ryan, she used to train with us and her ex husband used to be my coach when I lived further south with Ryan. Now she stopped playing and Ryan and me are part of an organized squat- sandogs and sandivas!

the whole house was decorated so nicely, absolutely amazing, pharaos everywhere, a huge sphinx that welcomed us, traditional food, a big lounge made of pillows and curtains like in 1001 nights.

her big balcony transformed into a big arab lounge

Baz and Ryan. Not sure if you remember Baz from photos when I was backpacking, he is a good friend from my time in Cairns but he moved to Adelaide but might be back to Brisvegas now, yahay. He organized World Tour Events for Beachvolleyball, the one in Stavanger/Norway for example. He is such a good event coordinator.

Ok so before you scroll down, breath in deeply cos I went to the hairdresser the other day because I felt like a change....

my costume, made up of from scratch from stuff from home, didnt turn out too bad ay

this amazing cake, not sure what it is called but it is this tower (half a metre high) consisting of these yummy balls filled with cream and covered with this lines of caramel....soooooooo yummy and I think super difficult to make. Awesome present I think.

Ryno and me

Me, Mandy and Michael (Ryan used to live with him back in that first house where I used to live too. Now Ryan moved closer to the city and lives now with my supervisor/friend Mark)

Look at this, isnt that amazing. The food was authentic, someone made cocktails all night....it was just perfect

My new hairdue in close up. Man I tell you, I was scared to dye my hair AND cut it short....whole different look, isnt it!

Midsemester celebrations

We had two very tough weeks of exams two weeks ago. As soon as we survived those, we had to celebrate- of course :-P A whole heap of physios went to "DUB" which is down under bar, a very crazy backpacker place. U have to be a student or foreigner to get in, and people cut loose in there, just as u do when u r a backpacker ;) Its good to get that feeling again once in a while, this ultimate FREEDOM. Anyways, our group danced thru the whole night, also had Kelly turning 21...realllll good fun!


Uhmmm yup, no comment, noone really knows why the boys just felt like taking their shirts off????....yeah exactly right....BOYS!!!! Well it's good facebook material, how good is it to tag someone in a photo like this...oh now i get it, thats why everyone looked at me so angry the day after LOL. just kidding, I didnt even take the photos. Oh and it was ladies night that night so there was a male striper and he was so hilarious, such a bad performance, he didnt even get the beat, but again, good fun. Once in a while its quite amusing!

Jason and me having predrinks

Eva me and Agnieska (Eva's friend from Norway who is staying with us until December)

Eva me and Patrick, he is the funniest guy ever, he cracks me up every time I see him. Such good value!

Maaaasive weekend

Ohoh manchmal wünschte ich mir doch ein Tag hätte mehr Stunden...dieses Wochenende wird der Knüller, Uni muss ich wohl wieder mal vergessen für ein paar Tage, lol.

Also Freitag abend, sprich gestern, hatten wir ein großen 21st birthday von einer Freundin, die sind hier ja riesig diese 21sts....100 Leute....dann später heute Samstag haben wir unser erstes Event von der Queensland Beachvolleyball Tour 2010, zum Glück hier in Brisbane, sonst hätte ich n ernsthaftes Problem gehabt. Bin super excited, cant wait to play and kick some a** ;) So dann heute Abend ist der große alljährliche Physioball, wohl der letzte weil als 4th geht man anscheinend da nicht mehr hin. Also auch ein Riesenevent und da die Mädels erst um 12 Uhr anfangen zu spielen, die Jungs haben schon angefangen heute morgen, hoffe ich mal dass ich nicht eine von denen bin, die bis 9Uhr abends spielen muss weil der Ball schon um 7 Uhr losgeht und fertig machen muss ich mich ja auch irgendwann noch...hm...

Leah me und Katie...Katie ist ja meine Partnerin....best team in the worrrrld :-P

Ursprünglich hatte ich geplant, heute am Samstag am späten Nachmittag, gesetzt dem Fall unsere Spiele hätten es zugelassen und wir wären einigermaßen früh fertig gewesen, aufs Oktoberfest von Brisbane mit den ganzen Leuten von der Arbeit (social club of the hotel) zu gehen, so nach der Art "Dirndl an, aus, nächstes Kleid an und ab zum Ball". Naja der Spielplan hat mir dann nen Strich durch die Rechnung gezogen und ich bin ziemlich "bummed" dass ich nicht mit den ganzen Köchen, Restaurant Leuten, Supervisorn etc Bier trinken gehen kann. Voll doof, für den letzten Monat, hat mich mindestens eine Person pro shift von irgendeinem department gefragt ob ich denn hingeh...."NEIN und nächstes Thema"

We party but also play and perform...we never argue on court or blame each other or any of that crap...just a really harmonic team that helps to pull and fire each other up if down .
I love her. Come on Team Sharp/Guenkel!!!!

Naja kann nicht alles haben. Irgendwie muss ich es dann schaffen morgen früh nach dem Ball, wir haben free drinks von 7pm till 12pm...wieder Volleyball zu spielen, hoffentlich semi finals und dann den Tag noch durchzustehen....hm...hab noch keinen Plan dafür oder wie das passieren soll...ich schwör mal auf Berocca (so n Vitamintabletten Drink), greeeeeaaassssyyyyyyy food before I go home und .... naja und dann einfach Sunnies on und STAMINA...durchhalten LOL...am Abend muss ich dann wieder arbeiten, was aber nicht so schwer wird nehm ich an. Montag Uni??? Ähm....nooooope! =) LOVE LIFE =)! Wünscht mir Glück für heute und morgen!

Why I love Australia...

...heute ist Freitag, letzter Ferientag, ich steh auf, die Sonne scheint, keine Wolke am Himmel, frühstücke, geh am river entlang laufen mit der Sonne auf meinem Rücken, schnelle Dusche, schwing mich auf mein Radel und fahr nach Southbank zur Lagune, treff Freunde, geh baden und mich abkühlen, fahr wieder nach Hause, stopp am fruit store, kaufe 2x 250gr boxes mit Erdbeeren für umgerechnet 12 euro cents each (bargaaaaaaain) und....jetzt kommts...meine erste MANGO für diese Saison. Daheim angekommen, nochmal duschen und meine Früchte. Die Mango ist sooooooooo lecker, so süß und ganz weich, keine strings in den Zähnen wenn man reinbeißt, einfach nur mouthwatering. Ich liebe einfach das stetig gute Wetter, den lifestyle und mein Essen hier....die frischen tropischen Früchte sind mein 2nd lover, sorry Ryan haha =) ok soviel zu meinem Enthusiasmus für heute. Jetzt geh ich arbeiten. Jaja auch ich hab meine commitments hier, ist nicht immer nur party party oder Strand :-P

Oktoberfest in Brisbane

may i introduce u to the main actor in this play: .....misteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer beeeeeeeer!!!

Willkommen to oktoberfest 09 at Niall's, Eva's and Anna's house. One day we decided we should have a party, just like that because we never had a proper houseparty before and we are splitting up in Decembre when we all move out. Ok so I organised a keg of beer from work and the so calles miracle box which made it quite easy to tab and pour the beer. Had hardly any wastage. I did get a big lesson at work tho what to connect where and how and how to adjust the pressure and what to do with the gas and how to cool the beer bla bla bla.

Now listen carefully, I put the huge keg, the miracle box and that massive thing of gas bottle into MY tiny little annamobil II. So funny cos everyone in the hotel knew about my oktoberfest and was offering their help so that in the end I had 4 people from all different departments from work trying to fit everything in the car and store it so it wouldnt roll or EXPLODE....they were like to each other "would u take that gas bottle home in THAT car?" and the other guy shook his head. im like "come on guys...thats not very encouraging, help me securing it so i WONT BLOW UP!" i have to say, i was sweating up a stoooooorm while i was driving home with the anticipation of having the keg rolling on the bottle, me crashing the car and....well i wont even go there cos .... it was all good but a huge adventure for me at that time. And my car ist just a GUN! good work my little sweetpea :)

thats a part of our downstairs area underneath the house. there is like one higher level with two car spots to the left and then another two spots on the bottom. we are standing on the backstairs going up to our kitchen. everything was nicely decorated and our set up was pretty good too i think. have lots of old couches and chairs and stuff and we actually have sooo much room for a lot of people. perfect place fort parties!

that was our dancefloor at once stage and we had our other "area" on the top level in the next hour, haha

patrick and me, friend from physio....thumbs up for his dress up

Eva, Niall and me in front of our keg, steins and "willkommen" sign (3/4 of our shared house, nicole wasnt there, but she is not interested in these sort of things...)

BBQ master... his costume looked so cute. so authentic with his figure and beard :-P

Jared and Jason with us girls

Bretzen....well kind of...not the real stuff but close enough. We also had lots of Gummibärchen as dessert and german "humbaba" music. Very authentic =)

Our motto of the night was "the four B's, beer, bretzen, boobs and bratwurst" LOL and i introduced the handle rule stating that the first sip u take from your beer has to be so much that when u tip the stein on the handle nothing tips over....i think that could partly the reason why everyone got so smashed. oh well, thats what happens, just like on the real oktoberfest

our food table with big green mixed salad, potatoe salad, nürnberger bratwürste, mustard and bread rolls and NO BBQ sauce, hehe...must have been hard for the aussies.. the steins that are holding the cutlery are REAL ones from Papa. He gave them to Ryan as a present.

I found a german restaurant that actually produce their own meat and bread. He is a butcher and praised his nürnberger rostbratwürste on his menu so i asked him if i could buy a whole lot cos im having an oktoberfest. So i got 5 kilos and i have to admitt, they tasted bloody awesome, real real, soooooo happy about that. I could finally show what REAL sausages are meant to taste like since here, the major ingredient is rubbish and fat, nothing compared to the stuff from home. AND everyone loved it, SCOOOORE! I should become a saleswoman, everything I promote, is usually successfull, even in the restaurant, when I tell the customers the daily specials, they very often have the whole menu of specials and I always convince everyone to have garlic bread to start and dessert or coffee to finish.

Sara and me

Michael, Ryan's former flatmate, Ryan with his Deutschland scarve and Mandy, a good friend from Volleyball. In 2006 we cought up with her in Klagenfurt for the World Championships of Beachvolleyball

Mark, one of my supervisor/team leaders from work, but also good friend and now also ryan's flatmate. I organized that and now he is living in an awesome shared house with amazing view, really nice place and really nice people. Uhm...ja...and wearing Niall's head, I think the bear is got INTO my head as well then lol.

afterparty in a club for the strong crew that was still standing, in comparison to a few others who didnt even make it out or had to leave the club 10 mins after we arrived, is that right, eva? haha...so here we have Sara's little sis Hayley and Agneska, Eva's friend from Norway who is staying with us for 2 months travelling around an enjoying summer in Oz AND cooking for us when we come home, very handy. Nuh just kidding..what a crazy night, I tell ya!! Super succesfull and everyone had soo much fun!