Pictures from Anatomy "field trip"

A rabbit!

The giraffes neck and Zara

A ape, I don't remember which one

A skeleton of a tiger!

Another ape...

Sandra and me looking at skeletons

A real woman skeleton, a horse and the head from a cow

Some skulls where painted to more easily see the parts, why didn't we practice with those?!

Twilight!!!!

Yesterday we went to watch the 4th Twilight movie!!! I loved it! It was long, and not that much happened, but I loved it anyway. But with all the music and all the blood when Bella got the baby I thought it was a little bit to much... And of course it ended before my favorite scene, when she wakes up and sees everything through her new eyes. I need to read the books again.

After the movie, the others wanted to go out, but I was very tired and wanted to go home. This week has been really stressful, with three colloquiums and one presentation.

Our coordinator told us that we are only supposed to have two colloquiums per week, but how do they think that can work out? We have 8 subjects, and nearly all the subjects wants to have colloquium every second week, so how can that be only 2 a week? But after watching the movie, all the stress disappeared for a while, and I went home instead of going out. But the taxi driver nearly hit another car, and then he was really upset and angry the drive home, and then he didn't have change to give back on a 50 Lt bill, so I needed to pay 20 Lt instead of 10 for going home. So of course, my good mood was gone by the time I got home.

The others came home around 6.30, so I could sleep in a little since nobody made noise this morning. The I went to Mega to by food, and now I'm home. Even that the food is cheap here, my money disappears very fast... I don't understand this... But next week I will go to Exchange days, so maybe a little bit of the money went to pay for that.

The school has changed our schedule a little, so we have more anatomy, which is good. So last week we went to look at all the bones they have. The anatomy building is under reparation so the have only two small rooms for all the bones. But they have a skeleton of a giraffe, and that was cool! The vertebras of the neck were nearly 30 cm long!! They also have skeletons of two different monkeys, a human, a swan, a wolf and a lot of domesticated animals. They also have a whole collection of skulls from red foxes, for some reason I don't know.

We are done with the skeleton now, and we will start with joints next week. We also have Zoology and Cell biology colloquiums, and a Chemistry control work. More things to study...

I look forward to the Christmas holidays!!!

Now back to studying, and hopefully I have time to go for a walk today to. =)

Pictures from Anatomy, Mega and pumpkin carving

Only half the pie left!

Linneas side, the traditional pumpkin

Zaras side, a evil face...

My side, a cat

Roasted pumpkin seeds

Yummy..

Me before starting carving... I was not as happy after, it took a LONG time!

JYSK, with the same things as IKEA at home

Candy King with Swedish candy

Story time for kids

The aquarium with sharks

Outside MEGA!

Our big pig skull

Our horse that you can open the skull on

Pictures from All Saints day...

The university in Vilnius that fixes all the candles

Soul river

Laisvés Alea

Why always on the weekends?

How come I always write on the weekends?

I thought I would write this Friday, and suddenly it's Sunday evening, when did this happen?

This weeks has been long, a lot of studies.

We only had Lithuanian test and chemistry control work, but we have a lot to do next week and the week after, so I need to start now to be able to get everything into the head in time.

This week we have Lithuanian test again, Latin test, Anatomy test and Zoology presentation. Zoology doesn't feel good at all, I'm nearly impressed how bad a subject can be organized. Sometimes it feels like some classes is based on Wikipedia and google translate. Is that how it's supposed to be?

Except for these kind of negative thoughts, life goes on.

We bought a pumpkin for Halloween, but forgot to carve it, so we did it this Tuesday. =)

We roasted the seeds, and make pumpkin pie. I thought is was ok, but Zara and Linnea really liked it, so they have a lot to eat (valgyti)... They are still not done, but they are working hard on it. =P

Since we were three people, and only one pumpkin, we made three faces on it. Then we gave it as a present to the woman working in the house. It was the sweet one that was there when we came, so we said "pateikti" present, and put it outside with a candle in it. It was there the whole (visa) evening, so I think it was ok.

This weekend we went to another shopping center, Mega. It wasn't bigger than Akropolis, but somehow nicer. It had a big aquarium in it, with sharks. It also had Lindex there, a clothing store that we have at home, that was nice, but it costed little bit more compared to home, which made it expensive (brangus) to be here.

But they had Rimi as the food store, and they had the Candy king! They had some of the same brands we have at home to, so that was a nice surprise.

Today I have nearly only studied, I called mum to make her tell dad to call me on Skype, and he seemed to be very proud to have mastered Skype. "This wasn't that hard, not hard at all actually, only to klick there and then there." Good job dad! Happy fathers day!

This weekend we had a lot of bones with us home, both a front and a hind leg. We are having puzzling time with the small bones in carpus (front knee) to learn which bones are which. It's hard, and it feels that they are the same... And they don't come from the same animal either, so it doesn't really work to put them together to see either. But we don't have the test until Friday, so there are plenty of time left to practice on.

Come on, write comments when you are here! I don't have so many friends in each country, so I can tell who has been here, so come on!

I'm looking forward to hear from you!!

All Saints Day

One more weekend has passed!

This time the week disappeared quicker since I had school on Saturday, because we were off last Monday.

All Saints day here was cool. Linneas dad and sister left, so she took them down to town to go to the airport, and then we meet there for going shopping. When I came down around 17.30, students from Vilnius social something school had put out candles all the way along Laisves Aleja, probably starting somewhere in the Old Town and then all the way to Sv. arkangelo Mykolo, the big church in Kaunas City. Along the way is was written Sielus Upë, which means Soul river. I think I was very nice. We went into the church to look, and they had a ceremony with a lot of candles and incense, and it was very nice. The weather was nice, it was dark and a little bit chilly, but you could still see the stars, and all the leaves were orange and this together with all the candles it felt special.

More than than that, we have done 3 more tests, in Latin, Botany and Anatomy. All of them turned out good, but the anatomy was hard. At least we have moved on from the skull to the legs, so we don't need to walk home with the big skulls anymore. I have never thought about how big skull a ox has before.... And how heavy it is. =P

So next week we only have a chemistry control work, and then a Lithuanian test tomorrow.

The test is on all the numbers, and how to make plural, and on the body parts.

"Man yra dvidesimt viena metai. It means that I'm 21 years old. They conjugate the numbers different if the thing is male or female, and sometimes they don't use plural, but put iu or u (u with a tail) instead of the plural ending. Very complicated, but I hope I will understand it before the test tomorrow.

We had problem with one of the teachers, but that seems to be solved and we will attend the same lessons in that subject as the medical students go to. The two bad things with that is firstly that it's in another part of Kaunas, so one day a week we need to be at two different places, and the rest on three different places every day. It takes a lot of time to travel back and forth, so we have lessons to 18.30 nearly every day... The other problem is that the medical students study in blocks, so they only have one main subjects at a time. So we need to study in the same speed as them, even that we have all our other subjects at the same time. But the good thing with that is after these 4 weeks of hell, we are done with that class. Hopefully it will solve itself somehow... If I don't write anything here during that time, you know why!

In three weeks Linnea and I are going to Exchange days with other international students, to another city in Lithuania, and I look forward to that! Also, mum and dad are coming here in the beginning of December, and after that it's soon Christmas!

Again, write comments so I can hear what you are up to!

Buvo labai malonu,

Linnéa