Orientation!

finally...it's the real introductory fortnight for all the 4th year medical students here in christchurch! so all of us get ready on monday to go to our uni n finally meet our dear batchmates. surprisingly there r quite a no of asian there wif us. there r some from m'sia, some from taiwan, korea, singapore, japan, china, hk n so on. n there's one from kch as well :) haha...so din face much of cultural shock over here.

as wad i've said before, i'm the onli 1 in gp F from imu, so for all the small group study, i'll be left alone n explore all the things all by myself. anyway, there r 14 of us in 1 gp, in my group, there's 1 MARA scorer from m;sia, 1 singaporean, 1 japanese and 1 taiwanese :) it's kind of fun tho to get to know ppl from diff countries. n wad i din know is tat i've to do my small group teaching in PMH - Princess Margaret Hospital which is far away from city centre. luckily, one of my group mate who is kind enuff to give us a ride to the hospital. so i dun haf to worry bout transportation n stuff. Thanks God :) anyway. PMH is really a nice hospital n it's mostly for rehab of old ppl. the building n environment is nice tat u would like to spend ur holiday over there!! will show u guys the photo when i have the chance to..

anyway..wad is this introductory fortnight is bout? it's actually like wad we did in sem 1 but a lil more advance. it's exposure for the students to clinical skill, which we haf learned lot back in IMU. so this's the onli part tat we kinda have more advantage! can show off our percussion skill n stuff :D so today we did CVS examination which is cardiovascular. n we learned how to take pulses n BP..hrm...sound easy for all of u huh? yea...tat's wad we did!! n tmr will be a day following a doc and next week will haf a session wif nurse like our nursing week back in sem 1
the onli thing i'm looking forward for this whole orientation is visit to Maore...which is the maori settlement to experience the life over there, learn their culture n know bout their health status n stuff. will spent 3 days over. hopefully it will be fun. will be departing on thursday! oh ya...actually we learned a maori song today...the lyrics r as such:

E hara I te mea
No naianei te aroha
No nga tupuna
Tuku iho tuku iho

Te whenua te whenua
Te oranga mo te iwi
No nga tupuna
Tuku iho tuku iho

Whakapono tumanako
Te aroha ki te iwi
No nga tupuna
Tuku iho tuku iho

**i dunno really wad does it mean exactly, but it is a beautiful song...lolz!