fun time: school time

so in preparation for our MBBS exam we talked to a few seniors who just graduated and we had a really eye opening talk---i realised that getting very decent marks isnt a joke..u have to put in work but it can be fun---today i implemented one of the things i was taught---i asked my friends to give me answers to questions and if they answered right i give them 10tt dollars but if they answer wrong they give me 5tt dollars and one of my friends was bait--- i got my 5tt dollars--tomorrow i have taxi fair  :) i really had a good day in school ..i just wish i had learnt of this earlier--- right now i'm going to learn about labour and hope i can find bait for my next 5 dollars --i will learn it soo well ..planning on reading the chapter atleast 5 times :)

Dad

Dear Dad
Permit me to use the name my grandma uses when she calls you fondly --despite the fact that we are three decades--two continents apart right now.Tonight let me do what i was not brought up  to do.Talk about my feelings.Tonight  i confess the love i have for you-how much you mean to me.We say it always when we are together--not through words but through our actions--you do what you can to protect your children -you do what yo can so we could have the best of what we can have and for me thats how i feel your love even though i have never heard you say you love us i still  know your love follows us wherever we go.Tonight ,I am my father's daughter and you are my dad and I embrace every piece of  you,you  have ever sacrificed-you independence--your freedom to bring us up.I appreciate your unconditional sacrifice and love  and i say thank you Dad.It means the World to me.You may be one person to the world--but to me you are the world and i am what i am because of you .

Lots and lots of love

Jafu's daughter :)

On a hunt for the great poems that influenced me since childhood

It seems like this week i'm hunting for my old favorites-perhaps its because i haven't had time to write my own -a few days ago i stumbled upon the Don't quit poem---today i remembered this-- Anyway poem by Mother Teresa.

I used to read and re-read it back in the day when i was a teen  when i  got into an altercation with my play mates,cousins  and my feelings got hurt ---it made me instantly better and i would  try to make peace after .I still find that it helps me a lot cause i don't get annoyed easily by little things ---maybe i recognize how flawed i am and i am considerate of other people's flaws as well.anyway here it goes 

THE ANYWAY POEM 

People are often unreasonable, illogical and self centered;

Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;

Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;

Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;

Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;

Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;

Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;

Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;

Give the world the best you've got anyway.

You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and your God;

It was never between you and them anyway.

BY MOTHER TERESA

Rest, if you must – but don’t you quit.

Cant wait for friday after my last ENT AND OPTHAL exam :) .Right now im just absorbing the knowledge and holding on cause of this poem whose author i unfortunately do not know :)

Don’t Quit!

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,

When the road you’re trudging seems all up hill,

When the funds are low and the debts are high,

And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,

When care is pressing you down a bit,

Rest, if you must – but don’t you quit.

Life is queer with its twists and turns,

As every one of us sometimes learns,

And many a failure turns about,

When he might have won had he stuck it out;

Don’t give up, though the pace seems slow,

You might succeed with another blow.

Often the goal is nearer than

It seems to a faint and faltering man,

Often the struggler has given up,

When he might have captured the victor’s cup.

And he learned too late, when the night slipped down,

How close he was to the golden crown.

Success is failure turned inside out –

The silver tint of the clouds of doubt –

And you never can tell how close you are,

It may be near when it seems so far;

So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit -

It’s when things seem worst that you mustn’t quit.

Author Anonymous

Care about your patients

yesterday i had a convo with my friends Dk and Sthaa about what distinguishes a good doctor from any other doctor--and they said something that has since stuck to me.''Care about your patients.''

When i am ill,i go to great lengths about finding out whats wrong with me,i learn about every side effect of the meds i get,i lean how the illness affects me--its not only the body malfunctions im concerned about--its everything--my social interactions--how i am affected emotionally--mentally--and physically--its not about passing an exam ----so im going to treat every case from now on as if i had the disease.


I just stumbled on a blog of one of my proffessors in medical school and i am completely awed at what he has accomplished.if you want you can check this link and see what i am talking about
http://www.vijaynaraynsingh.com/?page_id=91

I want to be something close to what he is --so help me God...
God give me the ability to learn this diseases and retain them--make me extra extra smart Please Please!
I really want to be a great excellent Doctor--Use me :)

Make me a Ben Carson---A Proff Naraynsingh--A Seemungal--And Teelucksigh combined and all my proffessor in medical school combined :)

MINI BREAK

I decided to take a mini break from  facebook..i have been aithfully facebooking since 2009  so i want to see how my life changes without the online  influence...Today i had a great day...did a bit of work and it was a special day cause one of my frends was turning--i didn't get to see him though.I hope he had a good birthday.there aint much to write about today :) so im just gonna say bye -- you will hear from me  when there is new news

:) My patients and I

God has been so good to me---some mornings when i don't feel like going to school and i end up forcing myself to go,i meet the most loveliest patients who remind me why i decided to settle for medicine in the first place.Today was one o those days--with one of my patients telling me i have a beautiul aura about me and i will touch many lives not for money but for the genuine need to want to help. --(apparently she saw a green light about me and a rose )..it was  uplifting--i guess this is my calling---to touch someone's lie  out there and devote my life to a worthy cause :) She made my day

And my skim--Tsa kalahi Crew  made my day --i don't know what i would do if i wasn't in the same class with this 14 or so Batswana students---you would think we were back in Botswana with Trini foreigners in our class instead of the other way round :) .I'm sure gonna miss them when we part next year


Right now i miss all my favorite people and i'm praying for some sort of miracle so i could see all of them soon...wish i had the power to control things so i could have things turn out the way i want--oh well i guess i have to do with what i got hey--and just continue praying for a miracle--one thing i know is my prayers do work :)  especially when i listen to this song.Its one of my favorite morning riser songs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQmlSqRX5fg

anyway night night..i have a test coming up soon--and have a whole two set of books to read --so i cant write a full page hey


ohh i almost forgot--i bought myself We Need New Names--by Noviolet Bulawayo---been waiting for the book since last year ..hope to read it soon