Happy Independence Day!

Two years ago today, my mom left me in Miami to start my medical career. When I woke up today, it hit me: two years ago my dream was to become a physician and now I'm in the beginning of my third year of medical school. I've lived abroad, visited multiple countries (ten if you count all the international airports), taken more exams than I care to remember, met some wonderful people (there is one extra wonderful person...Farley!!) and I'm well on my way to becoming physician. In fact, this week Farley and I were part of a group of students asked to speak to students doing the semester in Miami before heading down to the island. It is crazy to think that just two years ago I was at such a different place in my life. Just like then, I'm still excited, nervous and even a little scared about the future, but after living through Dominica nothing is quite as scary anymore.

I don't think we will get to do anything exciting for Independence Day. They are having fireworks on Miami Beach, but I don't know how much fun it would be to drive down there, find parking and get out. I think I'd be better off staying at home. There are suppose to be fireworks about a mile from here, so maybe we'll go to the top of our parking garage and try to watch from there. Since we are in Miami, obviously there are rain showers and thunderstorms currently so I don't think it would be very fun to be out at all today.

I haven't posted a picture in a while. It isn't the best picture of me (but Farley looks great, as usual). This picture was taken before heading to a clinic to see patients last week: