I just had a major test on Wednesday. Dissections are really tough. I think it might be the toughest aspect of Anatomy in medicine. We had a week of dissections, everyday from 2.30 p.m.until 6.00 p.m., poring over cadavers, dissecting fascias, cutting up muscles, cleaning away subcutaneous fat, discussing about origins and insertions of muscles, topography of the human body, various triangles like auscultation triangles, lumbar triangles etc.

2 months of medicine, and my vocabulary is changed. Medical jargons fill my head to the brim. Not only medicine, but also histology, Latin, Czech (which is like the hardest language in the universe) and Biophysics. It is like medicine chips away part of me and fills it with a permanent, irreplaceable cast, where suddenly the lexicon in my head is filled with weird medical lingo like foramen lacerum and bicipital aponeurosis and groove for the tendon of the flexor hallucis longus. Oh and this is only anatomy.

Histology is where we learn about cells. Where we have to pore over slides under the microscope and distinguish between the different structures of the human body. Connective tissues, muscle tissues, blood, everything. And it is TOUGH.

Oh and did I mention about Czech language? Phew. Hardest language on Earth, period. English suddenly feels tame and childish compared to it.

Latin is where we learn the structure and declensions of the language anatomists and doctors use hundreds of years ago and it remains in use in European countries until today. 3 months ago I do not even know what declensions mean. o.O wth..

Yeap. Life is different now. Dude, like, totally.

I cannot explain much about Biophysics. Never went to the lectures. Basically its Physics plus some applications related to medicine. So you have X-rays and acoustics and thermal physics and quantum physics.

Dude. @.@

It is starting to snow now in Prague. It is my first time experiencing snow and obviously like some noob sakai we pranced around and played with it, throwing snow at each other. Feels powdery. And on closer inspection the flakes have really amazing shapes, like, well, erm, snowflakes.

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I really look forward to taking a break. Tomorrow I am having histology test again and here I am, typing crap again. Who reads these stuff anyway??

Lazy to upload photos. Just know that I now look fatter. With a short haircut.