This is my first official blog as I have been pleaded by someone to start one so that they may be able to follow my travels. After a long day of flying yesterday I finally landed in Fairfax, Virginia to do an externship at INOVA hospital. In the mean time Lindsey was headed to Pittsburgh, PA to extern at UPMC for the month. This place is completely different from AZ with trees down every street and a high temperature of 45.
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I am staying with a couple that rent out a room in their little townhouse/condominium. Their names are Erin and Kevin. They seem like a nice couple and are used to having students visit them monthly. All of the houses in Virginia are either very large victorian houses or they are smaller conjoined townhouses and condos. When I ended up showing up at their doorstep Erin seemed a bit surprised as we have been playing email tag the past two days as I told her the wrong date that I would be arriving so she was expecting me on April 1 and I showed up on April 2. Bad April Fools Joke I guess. Anyways I have a small little room and a shared bathroom with the couple for the month. Im not complaining because the hospital paid for my accommodations. I said I wouldn't complain but I didn't say that I wouldn't make fun of it. My first stab at the place is that every night when I go to sleep there are Barbie doll's watching over my head.
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| Barbies |
The couple had a nice welcome note for me on the dresser when I got here and as I am reading it there is a bathroom section and it says that I have to supply my own toilet paper. This is understandable but in the mean time before I make it to the store I had to borrow a few squares from them. Should I lay a few squares back in return? I don't know the proper protocol in toilet paper ownership....Since I am new to this whole blogging thing, I am going to leave a word of advice at the end of my posts and the message today is, Never leave home with out it....you never know when someone is going to hold toilet paper ownership rights over your head and you don't want to be caught unprepared.
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| The Note |
Peace,
J
Thank you for blogging!! I'm totally weirded out by your current living arrangements ;o)
ReplyDeleteI'm going to be following your blog to see how you like INOVA! Keep the posts coming (like you'll have time)
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