Orientation day almost 1

All settled in to my apartment. Staying with 3 others (from Switzerland, Italien, and Scotland). We had are orientation and it's a REALLY unique group. They gave great introductions to the course and organizers. We've been told multiple times regarding the intensity! We've been split up into small groups for rounds and labs, and were told they were designed to be quite diverse.

This is a pic of two of the students are pretty fluent in Spanish, aka my new best friends.


Sharon on the left (Scotland, ID/internal), Andrea (from Italy but did ICU in Toronto).


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