Ich bin ein Arzt!

So that was the fastest graduation I’ve ever experienced. It was nice, if you leave out the fact that my car was towed earlier that morning (I didn’t see any no parking signs… I shoulda looked harder) with my graduation regalia in the trunk. Props to my heroic roomie and her fiancé with his GPS system, and the lady who opened up the impound a half an hour early so I could get my robes! My friend Robert, also our class president, had some trouble too, he got a speeding ticket on the way to graduation. The cop actually said (after writing the ticket) “well won’t this make a great graduation story!” Robert mentioned this in his speech to our class, and all I can say is that the officer is pretty lucky we all had to take the Hippocratic oath again. :-) Now, I’m trying not to freak out about the new responsibilities that come with those extra two letters after my name. But on to happier thoughts! I had such an amazing time traveling around Europe last week. Deutschland war wunderbar! I took German in high school, and it was so fun having an excuse to speak it all the time even though I probably sounded like a kid with my über-basic grammar. I traveled through Germany for a few days, then Rome, and finished the trip off in Paris, meeting up with friends along the way. Some things I learned: 1. If you're flying Northwest Airlines, make sure they check your bags under your name before you hand them over. 2. Don't lose hope when your luggage gets lost, you never know when (or where!) it might pop up! For me, this lucky place and time was 4 days later in Mannheim, Germany in a storage area 40 minutes out of town. 3. German beer is awesome! And I dont even like beer! 4. Water = H2O + carbonation throughout Europe 5. I can diagnose sleep apnea in people snoring loudly on an overnight train, and then actually sleep through it. 6. It IS possible to communicate effectively with someone who knows French, Portuguese and Italian when you only know English, a little Spanish, German, and maybe 3 phrases in Kannada. 7. Trains are totally cool ways to meet people, I want to revamp the entire American transportation system now. Do we really need all these big cars? Make more Chunnels, I say! 8. Tony Parker released a French Hip-Hop album in March of 2007 and is now on cereal boxes throughout Paris! In Spurs uniform, of course. 9. And finally, it turns out that we're not alone in our quest to promote equality. (As shown on a lampost near the University of Heidelberg in Germany) Save the Planet, Space Invaders! :-)