Another week

I haven't updated this in a while so I thought this would be a good form of procrastination.  It's Wednesday, September 15th (Happy birthday dad!) at it's 9:00pm exactly.  My life has consisted of class and sleep, with a few hours of studying in between and about 5 minutes for meals.  It's a lot of time in class but I feel prepared all of the information we're talking about now I learned in undergrad at Michigan State.  In Physiology, we're learning about action potentials and neurotransmitters, which I learned in Neurobiology at MSU.  In Histology/Embryology, we're learning about gametogenesis and fertilization, which I learned in Developmental Biology at MSU.  And in anatomy, we're learning about bones, muscles, and joints, which I went over in Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of Vertebrates at MSU.  So far, I'm not overwhelmed by the topics we're learning about, just the amount of time that I'm actually on campus.  The last two days, we didn't get a lunch break.  We had to eat during our lectures.  This Monday is St. Kitts Independence Day so we don't have class.  But the school forgot this and scheduled lectures for this time.  So we have to make up all the lectures that we miss.  So my schedule tomorrow:
Anatomy 8-10
Histology 10-12
Lunch!! 12-1
Nutrition 1-2
Physiology 2-3
Nutrition Make up Lecture 4-5
Dinner!! 5-6
Nutrition Tutor 6-7
And maybe I'll make it home by 8 for bedtime at 9.  It's an overwhelming amount of time in a classroom but I have to say that the people here make it all okay.  We're all new at this and we've all moved down here by ourselves, living outside the US for the first time.  And all of us have the same passion for animals so we all have something in common.  Everyday, we have the same classes together, at the same time, with the same amount of information needing to be learned, and the same amount of time to learn it.  So we all stick together and drag each other through the mud.
It's been incredibly hot the past few days with little wind.  But we're all thankful that Hurricane Igor missed us.  We're expecting thunderstorms all night because of him but none of us had to be evacuated.
I'm off to study the muscles of the canine thoracic limb.  I'm having a hard time keeping these muscles apart...I think you'll understand why:
Extensor Carpi Radialis
Flexor Carpi Radialis
Pronator Teres
Pronator Quadratus
Flexor Carpi Ulnaris
Lateral Digital Extensor
Common Digital Extensor
Ulnaris Lateralis
Abductor Pollicus Longus
Deep Digital Flexor
Superficial Digital Flexor

Back to studying.  Miss you all