Oct

31

2 months down, 18 to go…

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dear Nevis,
so it seems you might have been in a bit of a bad mood this month. a lot of grey skies with some pretty cool temper tantrums. that mid-month storm was particularly awesome to wake up to in the middle of the night and i had a blast watching planes land amid […]

Oct

31

Happy Halloweeeen

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Jonathan is dressing up like the colonel’s favourite meal again this year and going trick-or-treating with his nephew. i plan to spend the afternoon eating lots of mini-sized treats while studying.
i know we have candy-grams being delivered on campus today, but i’m curious if kids on Nevis do the trick-or-treat thing. or if […]

Oct

28

Medical school in the Caribbean

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… when a picture is worth a thousand words.

Oct

27

Sorting it all out…

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… still don’t feel much like writing about school. and honestly, i don’t know what i would say. i get up and study. i eat and study and eat again. then i study some more and go to sleep. who wants to read about that? i mean, i find it […]

Oct

27

How many ways are there to say “I miss you”?

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Jonathan went to visit his family in Montreal this week. he left today. and i guess it’s technically closer, but for some reason feels farther away…
today’s photo is (i’m pretty sure) the very first Jennifer and Jonathan photo in existence. it was taken at a wedding in July 2005. in hindsight, […]

Oct

25

This time last year…

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October 25th, 2006 was our first day of snow(!) in Prince George.

Oct

24

Mid-block hiatus

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usually when i announce i’m going to be away from the interweb (and please leave a message after the beep), i immediately think of a zillion things to write about.
in the meantime, just trying to re-group, re-focus, and re-inflate this stupid flat tire.
see you soon.

Oct

22

Global health

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why do articles like this annoy me so much?
as doctors-in-training, are we really so naive to believe that spending 6 weeks petitioning an organization that has been around for 60 years would be productive use of our medical training? and if UNICEF is doing such a good job of abolishing child hunger and malnutrition […]

Oct

22

When Mondays live up to their name

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true Monday in every stereotypically negative sense of the word. thank goodness i get to start fresh again tomorrow. in the meantime, let’s just look at a happy puppy tummy instead. ; D

Oct

21

A (Sun)day in the life

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700am - get up (coffee, feed/wrassle with pups)
the window above my headboard faces east and i get bright sunshine as soon as it’s available. i love it. and 7am may sound early, but that’s sleeping in for three whole hours compared to the rest of the week. this morning the pups and i […]

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