i love hot chocolate. especially when its a cold day and i have nothing to do. i've been drinking hot chocolate a lot this week.
its the end of week 5 of this quarter and im DRAINED. i don't know how i manage to survive with work and school. im literally gone all day until 9pm and i start school the next day at either 9 or 1030am. i like staying busy during the day or else ill succumb into the comforts my bed and just sleep the day away. but this is just WAY BUSY.
i dont have time to do anything else. though to be honest, in terms of classes, this quarter is not bad. i seem to be passing my classes with flying colors given the amount of time/effort and work i put in. i probably would have failed ochem if i did this last year. maybe its cause i just happen to know a ton of physiology from my dad teaching me random facts about my body while at home. or its cause i just know what words to put on my quiz to get the full credit. whatever it is, im glad i have it because my classes are going well.
we've been getting a ton of new young pharmacists at work. i dont know if they're permanently here or if its just cause our main pharmacist is going around all the different cvs' to monitor? but they're really fun to talk to. most don't know why they went into pharmacy or they had nothing else to do and graduated with a degree in bio/science. i've been doing a lot of thinking and i can't really give a reason of why i want to go into pharmacy. at least right now. maybe after more exposure ill know. but for now i can only think of what im going to hate about pharmacy. i cannot stand on my feet for 8 hours every day. omg i can barely stand for 5 hours at a time NO BREAK. all pharmacy seems to be now is just BUSINESS. i feel like they dont really care about patients as much as i thought they did before i took the job. if a patient doesn't get their prescription there and decides to transfer it to another pharmacy, the tech gets in trouble for giving 'bad customer service' when in reality its the patients insurance who sucks. omg insurance always gives us unnecessary problems!
but what i do like is that i can give advice on meds and educate people on it! i really like that. i really want to work somewhere where most of the patients aren't able to speak english and usually cannot connect/communicate with whatever health care provider they go to. i want to learn/practice more languages so i can break that barrier. I LOVE LEARNING LANGUAGES. but i dont know if i can justify going into pharmacy school and spending a ton of money and 4 years just to come out and see that i wont be able to do that and be in some crazy debt. ugh.
so im taking next year to do what i know i love doing-KIDS AND MATH. and hopefully ill be able to really decide on what im going to do with my life.
also, i cant believe this is my last year at davis. but i also miss home. IM COMING HOME SOOON <3
oh! i have a pal buddy! his name is ben and he's from taiwan. pal is a program where you meet up with an international student and converse with them to practice english! i think ben is here for like a student exchange program or something. i couldn't really understand him. but all he does is go to his esl classes. but im having so much fun teaching him english and trying to explain stuff in english with chinese. HAHA omg my chinese SUCKS. that's okay tho, he still understands me so i can't be that horrible. but yeah i have him email me a composition every day of anything to make him practice his writing. his first composition he sent me was:
tonight, i was happy,because i went to my friend house to make dumpling.
we perpared a lot of pork, cheek and vegetable to make. everybody was happy to make the dumpling.
after we made the dumpling, we took dumpling to cook. however, we made about 200 each of dumpling.
the dumpling was very good.
<3 he's 25 but this is just ADORABLE.omg. melts my heart.
well toodles until i find some spare time to write another bloggy!
