Universal Fridays

Fridays are the same everywhere. Everyone loves Friday.
Erin mentioned that Friday's are her favorite day, even better than Saturdays. And I think I agree

The mood is relaxed and there is still so much excitement and possibility surrounding the coming freedom- the weekend feels endless (by Saturday you realize that Sunday is the next day and you have to be productive).

Last Friday at the clinic was great fun - just a whole bunch of students hanging out and joking in the ER with Dr Pacheco. It even felt like the babies decided to take a break, since Urgencias was not crowded at all. After my whine fest before, the students have become so incredibly friendly and generous and welcoming and inclusive. It just took a little ice breaking, I guess.

One girl, Yessyca (That's my name in Spanish) is especially wonderful. She is in her 4th year (a pre-intern) and she is very, very good at what she does. She is friendly, enthusiastic, a great teacher, beautiful. . she has been so good to us. She and her boyfriend (who is an intern - they make the perfect couple) took us to Lagos de Mariselles or something like that. It was a nice 20 minute drive outside of the city. We met some other equally nice (and perfect) medical students and had yummy seafood for lunch. It was oh so yummy.

(I made one of those horrific cultural/language errors and got called on it. Someone was talking about metrosexuals and I said I was surprised to hear that word in Spanish. When they asked why, I stumbled around and said it was fairly new - the sweetest girl Adriana called me on it - you offend us Jessie, what do you mean new, as though we are so far behind. Oops. . I'm not even sure what I meant - stupid gringo.)

After dinner we went to the 26th birthday party of one of the interns, Mario. It was a drunk fest. It was at this gorgeous house/property (their country house) - it looked like the house that the rich kid in high school had all of the parties at. Actually, the whole scene was very high school like (which makes sense, they are oh so young). It was pretty fun and funny. . there were the guys talking with the guys while their girlfriends patiently waited and conversed with each other. There was the overly enthusiastic female flirting with everyone and controlling all conversations, there were the agressive men, and there was the serious deep boy (who I ended up talking to about abortions, politics, and other light hearted topics. . in a mix between english and spanish, since his english was almost perfect). There was even the father and uncle and the little kid running around excited to be up past his bed time, but sort of bored with the whole affair. It was an awesome scene. It was good to bond with the students in a way outside of the stress of the hospital.