last day of lecture

yesterday was the very last lecture in med school.

Somehow I felt very heavy-hearted. five years of med school is going to end in 2 weeks' time when finals are over. student life is going to end too! meaning to student discounts for me anymore lolz!

One chapter of life has closed and another is going to open soon.

Different place and different people.

gonna end with this Y U NO meme hahaha. i bet everyone must be super bored with it now.

Y U NO

Y U NO GUY series has been fun to kill the boredom of revision.

on revision:

on exams:


on the rabbit at home:

on the weather:

end of placement!

last friday was my last day of placement as a med student! I cant believe time flew by so fast! Another 5 weeks and it will be our finals.

I was pretty worried that I would not pass my end of placement assessment because I felt that I gave a very bad impression to my consultant. On different occasions, I have given the wrong answer to the same question three times during which my consultant had an exasperated look on his face. But thank God that I passed my assessment and also for His divine intervention because on the day before my assessment, another consultant gave me some feedback for my presentation which was very helpful. There was nothing to worry after all lol...because God is in control! Thank you all also for your prayers!

it feels sad to leave harrogate after spending 8 weeks there. We were given a house (a house house lol) to live during our stay there and I was housemates with D and F who were two very friendly Brits. On the last night of our stay there, we played the last game of monopoly deal and we each won a round!

Gonna miss the time in the Harrogate house with these two English friends! Just now at home, Esther was saying that F said hi to her and it was the first time a British person did that to her after lecture.

I'm very thankful to God for blessing me with the people around me. They could have been much worse than that but God has given me more than what I expected.

Two things to praise God for this week:

1. Jon has started on a new med and praise God that he says he doesn't have any side effects from it! (other than 3 days of headache when he was first on it)

2. The inner peace I felt from God that I know He will be leading the way for me.

Have a good weekend!

Lots of love,
Janice

The jobs allocation for foundation year came out last week and I got Hull!

For a while i wasn't very pleased with the results because Hull wasn't my first 50 choices (it was my 197th choice) and I wanted a paeds job in one of the districts in west Yorkshire. But after looking at the rotation I got, I felt that I should be grateful that I was given banded jobs (which means there are on calls, hence more experience n money lol) and my rotation consists of endocrinology, elderly n surgery which are quite good rotations in my opinion. So I am actually very happy with the allocations.

However I just realized today that I won't be able to go back to Leeds/Bradford (west yorkshire) in my fy2 as hull is categorised under the north Yorkshire deanery so I will be doing my fy2 training in the districts of north Yorkshire. It means that I will need to rebuild my network of friends and community. It also means I will be leaving Leeds for at least 2 yrs n might need to leave the responsibilities I have been entrusted upon as it willbe inconvenient for me to travel to and fro between hull n Leeds. I will not be there to witness the 'blooming' of my medics juniors as they enter phase II of med school n graduate. It's something like planting a flower from a seed and not being able to see it blossom.

I guess I have become very fond of Leeds afterall. Steph is working in Leeds next year so there's a place to stay when I come over for a visit. But I think what I will miss most would be serving God and His people in Leeds.

God is love

It's quite amazing how God always try to bring us back to Him even though we have sinned against Him and hurt Him so much. His love is always everlasting, always unfailing, always unconditional and it comforts us in time of need.

1 Cor 13: 4-7 reminds us of how love is.

4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Try substituting with your name and you will realise how difficult it is to love. Janice is patient, Janice is kind. Janice does not envy, Janice does not boast...I failed at the first line ad LOL. But if you substitute it with God, God is patient, God is kind...God always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. It fits the character of God because God is love.

1 John 4:8 says it aptly, "Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love."

Whenever people fail or hurt us or do not deserve forgiveness, remember that God is love and that we have been called by God to love one another just as He has loved us (John 15:12).

We do not know God if we do not love.