Fun weekend and start of rotations!

This past Friday, my roommate and I went out to this restaurant in Williamsburg for dinner. It was an oyster bar and was very old fashioned and very quaint. The drinks were very interesting and the oyster list was very long (see below)...lots of options. I got a champagne julep (see pictures) and my roommate had a beer that was served in a mason jar. We ended up getting a few oysters which were very good-a lot saltier than the Gulf oysters-and then I got Jonah crab and my roommate got Black Bass ceviche. The meal was really good, somewhere I'd definitely go back to and would love to bring any of you if you are interested!!





On Saturday I spent the day out in Manhattan. Sadly, my roommate was sick and couldn't join me but I decided to still venture on my own. I started by heading up to Central Park and walked around there for a while. It was a pretty nice day out so there were lots of people out exercising, walking around, and walking their pets. I walked over to an obelisk there that was called Cleopatra's Needle and was built in Egypt than brought over sometime much later. There was a plaque that described its history but the picture of it didn't turn out very well. Next, I took a train down to Times Square and walked to Amy's Bread where I had a delicious vanilla cupcake with pink buttercream frosting...it had the perfect ratio of frosting to icing and was very moist!!









Lastly, I went down to Little Italy and Chinatown. I ended up getting two pashmina's for myself in Chinatown and a scarf for my mom. I was going to do some more shooping/peeking around in stores in Chinatown but it was really busy down there as they were having a parade to celebrate Chinese New Year.

Today I started my family medicine rotation which is 6 weeks long. Today was just orientation stuff and I begin the actual rotation tomorrow. The hours are pretty light. For the first 4 weeks I am doing outpatient work and am only working short shifts. This week I work from 1PM-5PM, next week I work 5PM-9PM, the following week I work 1PM-6PM, and the fourth week I work 8AM-1PM. The final two weeks I am working on inpatient services and will be working 7AM-5PM as well as one day on the weekend. Every Wednesday is lecture day and we have two separate lectures...one at 9AM and another in the afternoon from 2-5. Hopefully this will be a good rotation and I will be able to learn some interesting things and learn how to do some simple procedures.

Thats all for now...will keep you updated about my rotation!!