Monday, 7 lectures, 2 were cancelled. We amused ourselves with singing and acting out comedy sketches from the year of Pantomime that is passed. Someone from the Obstetrics & Gynaecology office came into the lecture theatre to ask us to be just a little bit quiter.

Harry cooked Ara and I (we are the three editors of Trifle) some delicious home-made mushroom soup, followed by reggae-reggae salmon with roast potatoes and brocalli, followed by home-made cheesecake! Incroyable... We discussed the first issue of our medical journal and Harry's wonderful article on the Bagel Sign.

Tuesday, we had a lecture on the menopause and hormone replacement therapy - like yesterday, but with a different slant...and a lecture on miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy - like yesterday, but with a different slant. It's nice to remember that the grown-ups draw different conclusions too. 

A classmate said in a role-play for counselling about miscarriage, 'Your pregnancy hasn't been successful so far...at all.' Oops! Later that day, however, she led a conference with a FULL lecture theatre of penultimate year medical students. I got to chair the question and answer session...nerve-racking, but fun. The rep for the Medical Defense Union said he may be able to print our medical journal - that would be awesome!

Today I enjoyed the company in particular of Claire and then Saroj - a medical elective student from Nepal! 

Beth had an incredible story - of two reps of competing organisations, desperately in love, forbidden by their employers, who meet at medical student conferences as their only way of being together. She tried so hard not to laugh.