New Place; New Experiences

Had my first day of shadowing at the animal clinic of Upper Sandusky last Saturday. I got to help clean out cat and dog cages and give a few dogs a bath. My favorite was Cookie. Cookie is an Australian shepherd mix and needed a bath, he hated to walk on the leash to the back of the clinic so I had to carry him and then lift him up into the bath tub. Little did we know that he was petrified of water. So as you can guess that didn't last too long as we had to carry him back to the grooming room and each him with waterless shampoo. He was absolutely gorgeous though!

Later that evening, on my way back on the back roads from Walmart, we had a little dilema. After all the rain we had gotten the last few days the river had flooded over the road. We thought we could just drive through it, but were mistaken as we looked further ahead and there was a duck floating across the road and a crane standing right by. Guess we have to go a different way..

Backstage Pass

Last Friday I volunteered with student government association and helped put on the spring concert featuring parachute and Ben rector. Set up started at 8:00am and tear down ended at 1:30am. 

The lights and curtain hanging in the back was Nick and I's handy work. We are now certified electricians and putting together the lighting.

Ready for the show and waiting for the doors to open.

And here it goes!

After the performance I helped tear down and Nick and I again were picked to do the lighting tear down as we did such a great job putting the stuff up. It was a lot of fun and hard work as our hands got nicely covered in grease and dirt. 

The Freeze Has Lifted

Last week the weather was amazing! We were above freezing and in the 40s. When the weather gets that warm it means it's running season! Julie and I hit the roads and went for a 3 mile run to the park and stopped by the river. 

After a nice run I had barn duty and was made the pig entertainer. I stood at the back of the pen and let the pigs chew on my boots and shovel as someone else cleaned the front of the pen. I could just walk around in circles and keep them entertained that way as I took them for a walk around their pen.

On our way

Got to ride back to school with Julie and had a great time! We stopped in painesville for gas and took sometime for an adventure in search for the painesville falls. Unfortunately we couldn't find the falls, but had some fun playing on the playground and in the snow. We had to hike a little ways to get to the playground and over the bridge through 3 feet of snow. We won't be seeing much of that in Ohio later so we enjoyed it.

Starbucks rest stop on the other side of Cleveland....what are you wearing Julie?!

Road trip!

Another photo from doing dentals over break

Took a little road trip the last day of break to go see Kai at Alfred State. The campus is amazing! With beautiful scenery and places inside the buildings I could like it there. Directly down the street and across the way is a state park with some amazing trails to go hiking , skiing and running on. Also, just across the road is Alfred University. 

For their meal plan they get to go "grocery shopping" in the dinning hall as they provide cake mixes, cookig essentials, milk and more that can be used with the school's meal plan. Also on campus are chipotle, subway, friendlys, Pizza Hut and more that all are included in your meal plan.

Got to enjoy some cross country skiing with kai in the state park trails. It was a workout and a lot of fun.

Spring Break

Ochem shirts are in! 

Got to cuddle up with these cute dairy calves on my way home to rochester on a very cold evening.

Thoroughly enjoyed ice skating with Morgan and her friends and Alex and Calvin! It was great to get out and enjoy the brisk weather. 

There's nothing like a little snow! Ohio most certainly does not know the fact and idea of snow when compared to New York! It felt so good to have so much snow that you could actually do stuff with, fun to play in and looked beautiful.

Even scout agrees.

It's up to his shoulders and my knees! This is crazy!

Was shadowing with a vet in Avon and we went to this imaculate barn that is meant for showing and was just absolutely gorgeous that we could let help ourselves from not staring and looking around. 

Later in the week I shadow another equine vet from scottsville where we got to float some teeth and I got to bring home a little souvenir of stallion testes!! It was such a fun day!

Let's get you caught up

Before our spring break was hell week as I had at least 8 exams. We studied ochem like crazy, bio, reproduction and more. 

Also, during that week I was on duty with Mitch who got me hooked on criminal minds. We watched criminal minds while enjoying some homemade buffalo chicken dip.

That weekend was the Black Tie Affair with a white theme. Not such a good idea when the only food there was barbecue chicken wings, chocolate fondues and more with tons of white clothes. 

Julie and I 

Lexi and I 

On my last night of duty before coming home we had a little mishap in Myers. The third floor had flooded from a broken pipe in the bathroom. The water was spewing out like it would if it was coming from a fire hydrant! There was at least 1" of water covering the whole floor and then started to flow to the second floor. We had to have the carpeting company come and clean up and suck up all the water that evening.