First semester nursing school

I managed to pass my first semester of nursing school. The biggest shock was that every class required an essay that was around 40% of the overall grade. Oddly, my favorite (favourite) class was the one that I just barely passed. That class was about Australia's (theoretical) approach to health care, which is different from (to) the US approach. I completely grasped the concepts, but the final exam required writing three essays, and I hadn't memorized nine specific points requested by one of the questions about community capacity building. I never imagined essay writing, community capacity building, and Freudian theories would be such critical components of nursing education.

Winter swim :-)

We took a stroll today along the eastern shore from Bronte Beach to Gordon's Bay and back. As the day warmed, we decided it really might be warm enough for a dip, so we took the plunge. Once acclimated,the water temperature on the skin seemed ever so slightly warmer than the air temperature, which is to say very nice for the middle of winter!

How Australia works

I am slowly figuring out how the Australian mind works. Oh sure, some things are obvious. Other things, not so much.