Hi Everyone!
I have decided to start a blog as method, to help keep everyone up to date with school and my life since time is of the essence these days! I miss everyone a lot and I figured this would be a good way to keep in touch with everyone!
So as you all know, I am in my first year of dental school ( they call us D1's - I will try to explain the lingo as I go). Right now we are hitting a crazy wave of midterms for the next few weeks so if for some reason I don't update as often as you'd like this is why.
This is a pic from my first day of dental school - scrubs and all! My roommie Becky caught all the action on camera the first week!
So far school is great and I am learning really cool and awesome things -- I am taking Human Anatomy, Physiology, Biochemistry, Microbiology, Histology, Pathology, Biology Human Dentition, Essentials of General Dentistry and much more... ya i know that's a lot of ologies...
Well enough with school - the purpose of this blog is also to show you about my exploration of CHICAGO!!! Even though I LOVE ST. LOUIS, I am not gonna lie Chicago is A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!!!
Today I had the chance to visit this really cute fresh produce market in Lincoln Park called Stanley's it was super fresh food and super cheap!
This is what it looks like from the outside - it is pretty great, except now there is pumpkins and squash outside instead of watermelon's - winter is approaching quickly but today was beautiful and sunny!
Something else I did recently was a trip to the Chicago History Museum with Megan! We learned a lot of cool stuff about the Great Chicago Fire and the ever changing bridal fashions in Chicago.. pretty neat!
This is my first time using a GROUPON and we used it for admissions to the museum- oh ya I am sitting in a giant hot dog - in case you didn't notice.
I also got to protest for Women's suffrage- check it out!
Later this same day - I also got to reunite with my Alpha Phi's at John Barleycorn in Lincoln Park!
Not sure when I will get to go out again- so looking at this picture makes me very happy!
Finally - in a case you didn't know my cousin Kate and my friend Kelly both got married earlier this semester and I was honored to be bridesmaids in both weddings!!
My Grandpa Jack had a blast at Kate's wedding: he definitely is the world's coolest grandpa... rockin' these shades!
Here is picture from Kel's wedding too! Phoebe, Aubrey, Sarah and I all had a blast being reunited!
During wedding frenzy, I also turned to a ripe age of 23! Don't know where all the time went, but I had an amazing night with all my friends from U of I and Dental school (It was also my friend Paul's B-day so he and his roomie though a stellar party before we all went out to McFadden's to dance the night away!) Lyndsay also made the trip up for my B-day which was awesome - Jesi was supposed to come too but poor thing was sick :(.... Then we had a great breakfast at my favorite new restaurant on Taylor St called Stax... mmmm sooo good!
OK I just want to add one more pic to sum up my experiences of dental school and Chicago thus far. This is from the boat cruise we went on during orientation week on Lake Michigan - every time I see this I think wow - I live here!!!
