Arf arf

Had a bit of a fun weekend. Went off on 'Man camp' with some of the blokes from church. It was really good fun. There was fire, meat, beer, fishing, football. A tree was chopped down with an axe. I came home smelling like smoke and my car was filled up with sand. All in all a pleasant weekend.

The best part was the driving. Finally got to take the jeep off road and in to the sand, which was just good clean fun.

Got home and squirted the car off with the hose. It left a pleasingly large pile of sand and mud on the driveway.

On the downside, I did hardly any study this weekend. I went to PBL this morning and positively stunk up the place with my lack on knowledge about the kidney. Apparently 'magic' isn't an answer for how it works.

My favourite organ this year has definitely been the heart. The lungs were boring, and the kidney, though logical in its function... is just a bit dull so far. Sigh!

It is however infinitely better than my current medicine and culture assignment. I'm meant to critically review an article about various aspects of intercultural communication in medicine. Which is fine in theory, but all the aspects they want me to review are not really open for criticism. If anything, they are looking for personal opinion again, and by personal opinion, I mean sheepish following. I can't believe I'm being forced to pay ridiculous amounts of money for this ridiculous, yet mandatory non-medical subject. It could be taught so much better!

And that's my rant about poor teaching. Oh actually, one last thing. They originally decided it would be a good idea to release the assignment on Saturday morning, for it to be e-submitted by Monday night. Thus wasting a whole long weekend. A stupid idea from "academics" that don't live in the real world if ever I have hard one. But that would have been okay had they told us in advance, and not sprung it on us without warning. The school must have copped a lot of flack because they extended the deadline to Wednesday. Grmph.

Oh the humanities!