Idag ar jag sa sugen pa att dricka en kall ol och det ska jag banne mig go right now. Cyklar ner pa stan nu.
Pa sondag ar det State championship i O-lifting, far se om jag har tid att vara med.
1 vecka kvar och sen ar det Sverige som galler. Fick se realtime video fran mitt hus hemma i Falun idag. Det var saaa fint, sa gront och lugnt och stilla och katten och hunden busade med varrandra. Sa kul med katter och hundar.
Sen ar jag saaaa sugen pa att aka cablepark igen. Det oppnar tydligen en i Fagersta, 1h fran mig.
Kanske far bli en vecka i Danmark ocksa for i ar SKA jag lara mig en front2blind med grabbbb, jag vill sa garna. Den ar sa snygg.
Tomorrow is our last day this semester, half way thru after we have written our exams.
Cool stuff.
For me; Uni is much easier these days and a whole lot of more fun.
Looking back at first semester in 1st year is amusing. I almost failed that semester - two units. I was confused when I got my grades, something definitively had to change.
I remember the day in first semester in my 2nd year when I got the "Faculty Dean's Encouragement award in Chiropractic". It's basically to the student who improved the most from 1st to 2nd semester. I was proud. On that same day I got a Swedish newspaper in the mail box, my dad was interviewed about chiropractic. I think I almost let a tear come through on the bus to uni that day.
I started viewing uni as I used to view kiteboarding. That became what I was thinking about most of the day. Things I did started to go in line with it. I have to say that it was quite a big change and I did quite a lot of reading on work ethic, efficiency, and similar subjects. Now almost 2 years later it feels like it will work out eventually. But I expect it to be another 5 -10 years of intense learning till I feel that I master this. There's a really good book written on the subject; "Mastery" by GeorgeLeonard. Highly recommended.
Other inspiring books are 7 times Tour De France winner Lance Armstrong's book "It's not about the bike", Michael Jordan's biography and "The power of full engagement".
Yesterday me and Martin booked weekend tickets to Sydney. There will be a Gonstead seminar there in August. That will be so cool, we'll be going with a few Chiropractors from Perth. A few of the big names from the States are coming over. We will be doing the beginner course which will be great. I really enjoy the gonstead classes we are doing and right now that is what appeals to me the most. It's a really precise and thorough technique but it's also considered the hardest one to learn.
- Don't believe what anyone says, and especially not me, go and look it up for yourself!
If I could give myself two advices coming into first year it would be
1. It's actually easier to take the "hard" way. Do precise notes, go through lectures every evening and so on. Don't go for the easy option, you're only cheating yourself. Because you will have to learn it anyways, today or tomorrow why not do it straight away?
2. Implement habits; they will probably only make a 0.001 percent difference on a day-to-day, but adds up over years. This one is massive. Some of the ones I've been experimenting with this semester is
* Practicing chiropractic technique 40min every morning before uni.
1. People always say that they haven't studied. BUT!!! They have. So you better study as well!
2. Use an egg timer. I've found that setting the timer at 90min and then doing what you're supposed to do increases you focus multifold. If you get ideas or realise that you have to do something, jot it down on post-it notes and stick them to the wall. During the time, nothing else is allowed to happen, no facebooking or eating. You gotta pay attention to when you drift away. After the 90min you have 15-30min off (with the egg timer) were you do something you really want to do, juggling or reading something you really want to read. You can get tons done in this way, instead of the steady state 8hours in the "grey zone" way.
3. Do notes when you study. It's way harder, annoying and you just can't be asked. But the sooner you realise that if you do notes you have to make sense of what you read and you can at anytime just go back and have a quick look through what you have done, life becomes so much easier. It's great because you have to use another part of your brain. Best way for me is to read and do notes, then quiz myself without any notes. Then in the evening you can look through your notes in just 5 min.
4. Put aside 10min for every unit every evening and review what you've done during that day.
(I have just started doing this and I think it's great)
Seriously, if you're on top of your stuff, Uni is so much easier and so much more fun. Hahaha it's funny but it takes some work in the beginning to get there.
I've been writing heaps for the blog but I ain't satisfied with the stuff. Lots of brain stuff since I get more and more fascinated with the brain and nervous system as each day go by. BUT I promised myself to keep posting so I can always update with what's going on in my life...
Went and saw this awesome guy Dr "S". That was really cool and it felt like I got a deeper understanding about what we actually do and how we do it. Because if there is something I'm not gonna become its a B-shitter that don't know his thing. I'm enough of one as it is as Sara so nicely pointed out yesterday ;) It's easy to look at the surface of people, always try to look deeeeeep when you look at people.
Funny enough, some guy said something about Chiro "S" the day before I went to see him. - I don't like him because he's rude, cocky not nice etc
But I do not care if he's rude, not treating me like a princess. Look deeper! This guy was one of the best in his class, has practiced extensively, acquired the most precious skills. That's what I'm there for. I'm not there to be treated nice, I'm there to learn and I do not give a damn about him not being super nice to me and want to be my friend or whatever.
And yup' it was a really cool experience and that's the kinda skills I want.
From one thing to another, there is an O-lifting competition in two weeks. I might join that one and you can be sure that I will post the videos here!
Just gotta get my shit (uni) together and my shoulder needs to at least see the light in the end of the tunnel. But yeah I think I'll do it, maybe I can get a 50kg snatch and a 75kg C&J
Today I'm going to bust out something quick - unedited.
We're in our second week and we're doing Neurology and I find it very interesting. Massive workload though, in the first two weeks we're supposed to read 100 pages and we're not talking about an easy read hehe.
I was thinking about focus and concentration because it is something I always try to improve since it's so vital. I mean if you don't want to study 16hours a day you better focus and concentrate during the hours you do it. And have fun the other hours of the day. Interestingly enough 60% of the kids in the US have ADHD, a number that used to be much lower. That and a lot of other interesting stuff is what we're going to be introduced to.
Time to go to bed -> read -> sleep -> do everything again
Tomorrow I'll bring Linda to uni, that should be fun, will see if she can understand anything of our lecture tomorrow, "Neurology as a clinical tool". She used to be smarter then me haha just goes to show that you can pretty much do anything if you just cut the sh** out and focus.
Ranting two days before I enter my 3rd year over here at Murdoch Uni.
Got asked how life is over here and I might as well write a bit about it, really need to keep up the blogging since it's so good to write regularly. Will make it a habit to post on here once a week this semester.
It's actually amazing that we're starting 3rd year. It went fast but everything in life goes fast when you do stuff you like. Life here is truly amazing. I'm thinking and saying it out loudly almost every day. Sure we all have days when we think it sucks and that whatever we do is pointless but for the most part, shit is good.
Last semester we studied these units.
Anatomy all muscles and nerve innervation, bones and brain. Was a great course and it's hard to believe that I didn't know all that before because it's second nature to me now.
Biomechanics What muscles do in your body, forces acting on your bones and some basic palpation of all the joints in the body (adjusting them will come this year)
Physical Examination What you basically do is that you do a physical examination of the patient's lungs, heart, head, skin, intestinal or other system. Was a great deal of work and me and another classmate have committed to practice our skills once a week for this semester since these skills are so important to know from the top of your head. Our teacher used to say that he was going to phone us at 3am and drill us and damn the one who could not answer, funny guy and I really liked his teaching style. You definitely did your homework before each class because he would throw questions at you all the time and would not hold back on the humiliation factor if you didn't knew the answer.
------------------ This semester we're finally being taught officially to adjust. I'm looking forward to this a lot. WE have a great teacher for this course as well. In fact, many of our teachers are great. I mean the kind of persons you rarely meet.
However I've been going to evening classes every week of this semester since the Chiropractic technique (Gonstead) taught there really impresses me. The University does not allow this technique and their clinic. They only go with a technique called Diversified. Which with my limited knowledge seems easier to learn, but don't take my word on this since my knowledge is virtually zero when it comes to this.
I can see what Murdoch is trying to do. They are trying to legitimatize the education we get as much as possible. Making it more medicine oriented but that puts more pressure on the student to get out there and learn and practice adjustments and hands on stuff, since there is not enough time spent on that at Murdoch according to me. But that's just fine and I just have the feeling that this is the way it goes. We do 5 years here and they do 8 years in the states so more responsibility to the student to get good on their own over here.
I don't have any references on this one but I think they learned 3 or 4 different techniques at Macquarie in Sydney where's at Murdoch we are only being taught one which is Diversified. Politics politics...I still think that what you get out of your education is exactly what you put in. I've changed a lot since I first got here. These days we've been going in to Uni just catching up on stuff every fortnightly. I've now a deal with a good class mate of mine to arrive at uni 30min before we start to get some practice in everyday, that's how you learn - I know!
We had one guy in our class that after the first year transferred over to England and I spoke to him a month ago. Now this guy know what he wants and got his head right. He said that the academic standard over there was very low and their facilities were crap. Result: he's coming back to study with us.
I've also been out there, observing Chiropractors. That has been of even greater benefit than I'd previously thought. They practice with different styles and techniques so you get to develop your own thought of what you want to do in the future. I think this is important questions to have in your head from the start.
I've now twice been observing the Chiropractor who is doing our Tuesday evening classes and this guy is amazing. Every time you walk out from his office you feel fresh and motivated. It's been great to see that this stuff actually works. I was very skeptical and still is even though my Dad and Grandpa were Chiropractors. You should always be critical even if the person sounds very sure of his thing. Always do your own research.
Enough for today, now I'm going to enjoy my last two days of summer break before I'm back to were every minute is scheduled again.
Also have to add that I've started with Olympic weightlifting and will hopefully compete in State Championship in June 2011
There is actually one exam left, physical examination, the theory part. That's on Wednesday and then it's actually break for 11 weeks. What am I going to do???
I've not been out for 2 months, no kiting, not surfing. I've turned nerdy. That's okay thou, it heaps fun hanging out at uni, studying different things.
We'll have some really cool lecturers for next year, which I'm looking forward to. Units will be; neurology, evidence based practice and we are finally going to be taught adjusting. Even thou I've already been going to Gonstead evening classes. Which is a variation of the technique we are being taught by Murdoch.
How cool isn't it that my grandpa was traveling the States and the UK and learned chiropractic from different folks and then went on to develop his own technique. I mean that is pretty damn cool, especially since this was probably over 50 years ago.
Studying Chiropractic at Murdoch uni. in Perth, Western Australia. My plan is to understand everything and be extremely good at my craft. I love practising and learning, the daily grind, it is my passion.
I also love reading books, go to the gym, different forms of creation, going out, trying new things, travel and doing whatever comes to my mind
