Two Down, One to Go!

I just got finished with my second of two midterm exams. So far they have gone pretty smoothly. My Cultural Anthropology one yesterday was about what I expected it to be and I definitely didn't need to do any more studying than just doing the readings and looking over my notes. My Czech midterm today wasn't bad either. It was one of those exams that I just couldn't bring myself to study for because I just didn't believe that it could be hard. It took me longer to finish it than I expected, but that was mostly because he put a lot of vocab on there that we hadn't really learned in class, so I had to spend a lot of time looking stuff up in dictionaries. I'm really hoping that I do well on these exams. I don't think that I could live it down if my only semester of bad grades in college is from my semester in a Czech community college.

My last midterm is my philosophy midterm tomorrow. I'm nervous about it, but probably more so that I have to be. We at least have a study guide, so I'm going to go through the readings and hope for the best...

Yesterday I had the chance to shadow a Czech doctor. The patients weren't especially interesting. He pretty much took their blood pressure and gave them a basic diagnosis within a few minutes. What was more interesting to me was getting a chance to talk to him about differences in health care and health systems in the Czech Republic versus the US. He actually went to med school at Yale and got board certified in the US before moving back to the Czech Republic to work (he speaks perfect American English). I'm hoping that he will be a good resource for my independent study project that I am theoretically going to buckle down on once I get back from spring break. It wasn't very busy yesterday, but he invited me to come back again when he has a fuller day of patients. 

The weather here has been crazy lately. Yesterday started out sunny, then we got sleet, then it was sunny again, then there was a thunderstorm that turned into a blizzard. I would say that I can't wait to get to Italy to get out of this rainy weather, but the forecast predicts 60% chance of rain in every city we are going to for every day that we will be there :( I'm trying to stay positive, but I was pretty inconsolable when I saw the forecast yesterday. I'm desperate for sunshine and warmth, and I end up going to somewhere that is getting more rain in a week than they have all month. If nothing else, the trip will at least still be a chance to read, relax, and eat good food, even if it all has to be done indoors.