amazing creator

We've been studying alot about how the human body produces a movement this semester, and how our movement co-ordination is all patterned to gether into a really neat pattern.
How our heart knows how to keep pumping, adjusting by pumping faster or slower as we exercise or rest. How each nerve sensitises a certain part of the body, and how when that sensation is removed due to that one nerve damage, it's ten times harder to perform daily activities. Everything is just so neat and perfect.
It just makes me wonder how majestic God is in creating and sustaining life on earth.

5 He established the earth on its foundations;
it will never be shaken.
6 You covered it with the deep
as if it were a garment;
the waters stood above the mountains.
7 At Your rebuke the waters fled;
at the sound of Your thunder they hurried away
8 mountains rose and valleys sank
to the place You established for them.
9 You set a boundary they cannot cross;
they will never cover the earth again.
10 He causes the springs to gush into the valleys;
they flow between the mountains.
11 They supply water for every wild beast;
the wild donkeys quench their thirst.
12 The birds of the sky live beside [the springs];
they sing among the foliage.
13 He waters the mountains from His palace;
the earth is satisfied by the fruit of Your labor.
14 He causes grass to grow for the livestock
and [provides] crops for man to cultivate,
producing food from the earth,
15 wine that makes man's heart glad—
making his face shine with oil—
and bread that sustains man's heart.

Psalm 104: 5-15

First practical exam

Nerves. Tissues that signal my toes to start tinkling, my heart beat to rise.
It's the awful anticipation of waiting outside the exam room, ears sensitive to the call of my name. And then it came, 20 minutes later. As I stepped in, I was met with two quesitons.

Left active ankle dorsiflexion ROM, left elbow flexion manual muscle test.

It's funny how under pressure, you take their right ankle and measure it, thinking it's their left. Or that you read an angle that's far greater than what it is supposed to be.
Because I did just that.

In a few weeks time, I"ll be heading off to Mudgee for one week's placement at the hospital.

Time has passed by so quickly. Oh how I take for granted, the blessing of each and every day.

Taste of uni life

It's been 2 weeks into uni. and guess what? as part of our motor learning and control prac, we're learning the cossack dance !! only a bit of it though. as a treat, our tutor showed us a clip of the russian soldiers doing it, and wow they're good. we're training for 2 weeks so that we can do the squat kicks that the cameo soldier does.



I reckon the squatting will be the hardest to do, but it does look fun.
Yesterday, we also had a lecture on clinicals. I'm really excited and looking forward to going on placement in May :) !

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose - Jim Elliot

Oday

Today was Oday at Cumbo. Funnily enough, there was much more than last year in store for the first years. Fairy floss, stage set up and chairs, all the stalls of the student associations, free barbeque. Last year I remembered we only had small muffins and fruit for morning tea and no stalls at all. Most of them were saved for first week back at uni.

I got a chance to talk to a lot of people, practiced some of my chinese with international students too, and realised how much it had deteriorated.
I'm really looking forward to uni starting and seeing what's in store for us. 5 days a week, shall be great !

Just for Laughs.

This truly made my day. It's funny seeing the reactions of all the shoppers.

primary schools concert

How fast time flies.
I was at town hall today while waiting for some friends. I saw primary school kids streaming from the side doors of the hall at around 4:30. Purple t-shirts with goose pictures at the front, black pants, black shoes. Kids waiting for their parents to take them around the city, in the time between practice and the actual performance. Others running around the courtyard, supervised by teachers.

I can still remember when I was in year 6, and Mrs Owen and Mrs Allen took us to the primary schools choral concert. Haha I still have the booklet in the cabinet next to the piano, and I can still remember how to sing most of the songs. Funny how there are some memories of your childhood that you remember so vividly, and others that you totally forget. This was one of those memorable moments.

From today, I'll stand a little taller. From today, I'll lift my chin and smile. Every doubt will disappear, every fear swept away. And I'll face tomorrow, from today