Today's been a good day. Prayed on the train to uni, ended up rambling about the most random things. It was so embarrassing on the train ride back though. Ok I shouldn't say embarrassing...it was more awkward. I saw this girl I had recently met at the station and we were just talking on the platform and I realised we were going to take the same train...meaning I would normally be obliged to sit next to her and talk to her...But like when I make a commitment I really try and keep it so I was trying to think up of all these ways of getting out of taking the train with her but like I couldn't without being rude. As we got on the train I finally just blurted out 'I'm doing this thing for church where I pray on the train...so I have to go...pray *awkward laugh*.' IT WAS SO FREAKING AWKWARD! She was from studentlife though (Christian group) so hopefully she won't think I was just plain weird or worse, making it up to get out of talking to her. Spent the next ten minutes asking God why he put me through that. But yes. My awkward train ride home :)
Before that, had a french listening test which I FAILED. It is SO frustrating not understanding something! I think if I got to have any superpower possible, it would be to understand/speak/read/write every language on the planet. How cool would that be? You could just go anywhere and chat with the locals, and NOBODY could pull that old 'speak in another language so everyone else can't understand thing *coughpreetaandsheharacough*. The ability to speak multiple languages is an incredibly attractive quality I reckon.
Got my braces tightened today as well, and in the process added another person onto my list of potential clients when I graduate: my ortho hahaha :) Now I just have to wait another 8 years until I BECOME a doctor. WHY did I choose medicine?!
Decided to have a party as well. Small party though. But I dunno...it's become a...source of internal conflict (ENGLISH FLASHBACKS). For one, I'm really really lazy and parties take effort. And two, I did a really stupid thing. I posted up on the page that I would be making an exception to my whole anti-drinking thing. REALLY not thought out well. People are making a big deal now and I kind of wish I hadn't said it? I think I'm really weird in that when most people face peer pressure, they cave, but when people place pressure on me I do the opposite. And I guess, like I said above, I made a commitment not to drink until I was 25 and making an exception even for my 18th, doesn't really feel like the right thing to do. Hmm still not sure what to do for this one.
The biggest thing on my mind though has definately been COSTA RICA! I got accepted onto the ISV volunteer program! I'm SO SO SO excited to go but at the same time really apprehensive. I guess, I don't want to get TOO excited in case it doesn't actually happen, like so many other things. Still, I'm so excited anyway. And I get to learn SPANISH! Exciting times ahead!
Love, Julia
3 comments:
you know what, you're a really good writer. must be from all the books you read cos that was really interesting to read! The awkward prayer rejection train story was great aha. but she should have understood....hopefully :P
"had a french listening test which I FAILED. It is SO frustrating not understanding something!"
i friggin can relate to that 115%. i friggin hate french listening too. like you miss the beginning of some sentence or you try to pause in your head a word to work out what it means and then you've just lost the whole sentence all together. and then the next, and the one after that too. friggin HATE listening! if you get that ability someday, tell me how to get it too. pretty please?
and lol, it's more like 10 years for us doctors-in-the-making. dont forget residency! (lol ok, fine you're technically a Dr after the 7 years of study.....but you've seen scrubs, havnt you... :P)
also, Q: "WHY did I choose medicine?!"
A: "to help needy people like your ortho of course! why else!?"
and you know, i totally had the same kinda rule. i was liek "no alcohol until age 18". funnily enuf i didnt think past that. and like a month after my bday i had my first beer (a corona lol) at schoolies. tasted like horse urine lol (not that ive had any horse urine before...). i suppose it's more like a symbolic thing of resisting "temptation", ya know? i mean, yea i totally drank lots of random stuff (ok, not lots, but i tasted) but after the newness wore off i havnt drunk any more alcohol (unless due to social reasons like red wine at dinner with family friends etc.) (i remmeber though, i had six glasses of screwdrivers (vodka + orange juice) purely to test my limits. and by the 6th i was tipsy but could still do maths quickly in my head :P.
and my opinion? i think you should stay true to your goal. but it's not weasling your way out if you change the plan if it's just too impractical for you. (like if you're really doing it just to counter peer pressure (i know I sure was aha) despite being just a little curious lol. but i suppose keep going if you really believe in the goal, most definitely. it made me feel good when i arrived safely at age 18 without any voluntary alcohol (i unwittingly had some random mix of softdrink and whitewine at a pre-formal gathering once)
also -- didnt you get scared off by those screaming people at your lectures? lol i couldnt even make out what they were saying when they yelled so hard ahaa. but no, i think it'd be awesome to see an exotic country like costa rica first hand. plus u get to help ppl, a definite must for aspiring doctors! ahah
oh and yea, just so you know, it's george. you know, from uni and stuff? don't remember me? bah it's ok. i don't remember me neither. i mean, it *IS* 5:30 in the morning...which reminds me...why the heck am i still awake???
lol sorry about the thesis-length comment. i got carried away. fatigue does strange things to one's brain...
JULIA!
Your commitment to pray on the train has totally inspired me (: HAHA. The story made me laugh out loud for quite a while.
Love,
Jerusha
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