This question was put to bloggers by Ann, on her blog. On an entry that had the same title. Because it’s difficult for me to decide what I should otherwise blog about, I decided to answer her question.

I suppose I still blog just to be present online. The internet knows I don’t really update all that much. Before it was since I didn’t really get out much, due to being at home for 4,5 months. These days it more because I’m not really sure what is interesting to blog about, and because I’m not sure what I’m allowed to blog about, since I had to sign a confidentiality agreement.  (We’re not allowed to crack jokes in the dissection room, so I have to wonder whether we’re allowed to blog about it too..)

Coming back to the online presence however, it really is the main presence I still hang about and blog occasionally. I don’t really like it when I read comments on blogs and there’s no possibility to find out what the commenter’s like. Therefore, I still maintain my blog, and an about page.

I’ve also been toying with some ideas to make me blog more, and I’d like your opinion on them. Would you be more interested in reading:
- An entry about a question asked by someone about me every week?
- A new part of a story written by me every week?
- Or entries like I’ve been doing all this time?

I’d be interested to hear what your opinions are about all these things. Feel free to shoot them down too if you don’t like them, and of course feel free to make suggestions. Anything is welcome

Believe it or not, but when I was younger I could be a real brat. (These days I’m more of a goodie goodie two shoes. ) I would steal sweets from the sweets jar, and eat them in my room. Read in bed, even though my mother had already said that I should turn of the light and go to sleep, and in general (occasionally) not do as I was told.

I remember this one time very vividly, it was at my grandparents house, where I was staying for a few days. My grandparents didn’t have an impressive amount of toys so I usually brought my own, or stuff to read, but they did have a few barbie dolls in one of the bedrooms, which I would play with.

One day I decided to ask my grandmother if I could wash their hair, and of course my grandmother said no. So, like any good girl, I did it anyway. I washed and dried their hair, shaking the excess water off by holding them in my hand and shaking them about, and I didn’t think my grandmother would be any the wiser.
Until she entered the room and saw the tiny wet spots on the wall where the excess water had landed. She asked me about it, but I ofcourse said I didn’t know anything about it, and that was the end of that.
From then on, whenever you entered the room and looked hard enough, you could still see the spots on the wall where the water had dried.

My grandparents house was put on the market last year, because they wanted to downsize, and they handed it to its new owners at the beginning of September. I’m happy for them, because they now have a lovely new apartment, and because it’s what they wanted, but I’m also said that it’s no longer theirs. It held a lot of great memories, like this one.

After 4,5 months of basically doing nothing, I’ll have my first lectures as a med student tomorrow!

The past two days have been introductory days at the faculty of medicine, and I’m sure glad that I decided to sign up for them. Who knew that a single faculty could be this big! I’m probably going to get lost a lot searching for the more hidden away rooms that only have numbers (as opposed to the bigger lecture halls which mostly have names.)

I also had a lot of fun getting to know my fellow students. There are two bachelors starting this year, the regular bachelor, which is taught entirely in Dutch, and the IBMG, which is an international bachelor, taught entirely in English. I’m in the English programme, and as such there are a lot of foreign students in my year. We have Saudi-Arabians (since this programme was mostly funded by Saudi-Arabians), Scandinavians, Germans, a girl from the UK, and even a girl from the US. I probably left some nationalities out, but that’s because I don’t know where everyone in my year is from yet! xD

I must say thought, that after 4,5 months of doing nothing, suddenly having to walk up and down a lot of flights of stairs, and around a lot in general, the entire experience is a bit taxing, and is tiring me out. Especially since today we were schlepped from the faculty to the hospital, and from the hospital back to the faculty for lunch, and then back and around the hospital for introductory stuff.

Yes, I think I will have a lot of fun this year, being a medical student!