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[Jun. 17th, 2005|06:22 pm] |
Last night I attended a lecture hosted by the EMC on obtaining an ER residency. It was interesting, as the speaker was a 2000 grad of SGU, and now an attending/Asst. Director/Director of Emergency Medicine in various NY/NJ hospitals. After the session, and talked with him a bit, and he started getting nostalgic about the school when he was here (1993), and all the hardships that they had to endure. He described frequent losses of electricity and water outages so bad that they only had 2 hours a day of water. In order to shower, they had to fill up buckets and have a friend pour water over them.
Last night and today, for some freaky reason, we have had power outages three times in the past 12 hours. (We haven't had any for months now.) This happened once while I was trying to cook dinner last night and once this morning so I had to take a shower in the dark (thankfully the water is heated by the sun). That wasn't so bad - the worst part is the power outages screwed up the "chillers" for the air-conditioning, so I have been sweating bullets in my 85 degree, humid room all day.
The worst part is the chillers just need to be reset, but maintenance hasn't shown up all day. I just hope that we don't have to suffer all weekend. Yes, compared to previous years, we have it pretty good in Grenada. However, are we one day going to tell the new students how good they had it and how rough it was for us, just like the previous classes? Probably :-)View or post comments on my blog |
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