Today

Yesterday was a long day. Thursdays are my busiest days with classes I start at 8, finish at 6:45 with a break from 9:30 until 11:00. Luckily, our biochemistry lab has the class split into two groups and we alternate lab weeks. It was nice to have a longer break. I'm trying to get all of my main homework out of the way so that I have some time to review this weekend and get a very large genetics project out of the way. If all goes as planned I will hopefully have lots of free time when mom and dad come. One of the best things of the day was my intro to veterinary science class. We had the class down at the small animal clinic just off campus and right by the farm. My prof is awesome -she and her vet husband have written most of the main anatomy and behavior books used by most of the major vet schools so she is a wealth of information. She also doesn't believe in testing, she said that her years at Cornell taught her that if a student wants to learn something they will so she only expects that we show up on time, listen intently and have some pretty decent conversations on what we talk about. We also lucked out and got a tour of the farm after class. They have horses -ex race horses from Trinidad that are lucky to retire with unlimited attention and loving, pigs, chickens, goats (big and small) and sheep that look nothing like ours (they look like goats!) I was told you can tell the difference between sheep and goats down here by looking at the tail, if it is up it's a goat, if it's down -its a sheep!
I also had my very first nutrition class. It's in the brand new vet lecture hall which is funny because we are fortunate enough to have 4 people in the class. I still can't believe this school, they can run a class with four people in it! It's the best thing ever, you don't get lectured at because you can discuss everything that is presented. The lecturer is really nice, her husband is in the vet program here, she's from columbia with a masters in feeding dairy cows from the University of Pennsylvania.
Last night I went with a couple of friends to look at the beach, for some reason we've been having a lot of surf/waves the past few days. Some of the waves were pretty large (3-4 ft) for what I've seen so far so that was kind of neat.