Monkey count

This week has been one of the busiest weeks in my recent past, but not due to a full agenda! Anatomy has been (almost) all consuming yet that doesn't mean that my week was all work and no play. Friday night, in celebration of completing our first official week of med school, my dissection group plus one went out for happy hour appetizers/dinner at the Monteclair plaza shopping center. It was wonderful to relate with one another without the linger of formalin and to avoid intentionally the subject of anatomy (well almost ;)). Interestingly, of the five of us, only two were born in the US-and of them, one moved to Taiwan when she was young, and the other just returned (the weekend before classes started!) from a year abroad in China. Of the group, I was conversationally fluent in the fewest number of languages, yet the only one who spoke Spanish! As we are learning about the complexity of the human body, it is equally fascinating to remember the complexity and variety in our human experiences and backgrounds and interesting to see how individually, these events brought us to a career in medicine. As challenging as ISACs is proving to be, the subject matter is never boring and getting to know the other students has made the experience well worthwhile.

On Saturday, we had a homemade-esq/potluck dinner at the Helix. Since most of the day was spent studying and doing chores, again the evening had a social rather than academic flair. After a wonderful dinner, the evening vanished as we played variations of group icebreaker games: mafia & psychiatrist, and riddles: green glass door, monkey count, & rabbit hop. It was downright hillarious watching and listening to one another defend their mofia accusations or struggle with the riddles. Being a sucker for group games and icebreakers, I always love to learn new variations and am looking forward to the next opportunity to use these new riddles on unsuspecting victims!