Hey there! Orientation week of vet school is almost over... I can't believe tomorrow is already Thursday. Monday was a bit nerve wrecking. After we were seated for about 10 minutes, Dr. Elmore says that we're all going to introduce ourselves one by one on a microphone in front of our new class and all our family and significant others that we brought. First of all, I despise public speaking to begin with... plus my nerves on the first day... plus my surprise when I saw my photo up on the screen saying that I was from South Korea! Well, I mean, I most certainly am Korean and was born there, but I guess I was expecting to see my location as California since that's where I lived the last oh I don't know... almost 10 years of my life? haha.
Because of that combination, I completely forgot to answer one of the questions asked about everyone.. His instructions were... "Introduce yourself, tell us what you might want to focus on, and an interesting fact about yourself." =/ So I completely walked off without saying what my focus was. I felt like such a fool afterwards... b/c I was taking note of everyone else.. and I seem to be the only one who had forgotten!
The first day wasn't too bad though... I met some people that day, but I'm so horrible with names, when I got home I couldn't remember anyone! Plus everyone's faces look so similar... 95% of my class is white... so it makes it that much harder to remember names and faces. In California I was so used to seeing such a mixture of ethnicities... California's a melting pot of races! Blacks... whites... asians... people from middle eastern countries... even seeing people who are half white/half asian... none of it is ever a surprise and always common in California. I'm not saying that all white people look the same... but having diversity in a group of people definitely help to remember names with faces. And there's not much diversity in terms of ethnicity in my class... plus my horrid memory at names isn't going to help either. It's just going to take me a while that's all!
I've been meeting more and more of my classmates as each day of orientation passes. Everyone has been super nice so far. There's a few people that are really quiet... there's a few people that have already somewhat irritated me... there's are lots of people that I think are awesome... of course, it's all preliminary at this point... so I'll just see how things pan out with our class.. I wish I could just know how things are going to be already.. but time is making us all wait.
Time to eat lasagna and ponder no more! =)
