Giving Birth

Today, I had my first experience at a glimpse of what it looks like when a new life comes in to this world. I have been having my obstetrics cycle for a week, but only today we had a chance to go into the birth ward.
It was as usual, a boring and a day full of chatter while waiting for teacher to come into the classroom/dinning room (we were having our class in the patient's dining area). All of a sudden a nurse came into our classroom and told us to go to the maternity ward.
Though, her instructions were very unclear and she spoke too fast that we were lost at where she wanted to direct us to. When we finally got to the ward, the baby had already came out from the mother's womb and our teacher was checking the placenta and clearing up.
The scene we saw was pretty messy, blood oozing out from the mother's vagina after being teared from the birth process. Upon this sight, the girls from our group shuddered and said they would opt for using the Cesarean section during giving birth.
For me, I felt lucky that I was born a male and would never have to go through this process. It also made me feel very thankful to my mum, for bearing me in her body for 9 months and going through a painful process to bring me into this world. A further thanks to my dad who also had to bear through all my mothers tantrum she might have thrown due to all the hormone imbalance that I caused while I was still in her womb. I could never repay what you guys have done for me, from bringing me into this world and bringing me up to who and what I am today. All I can do is to study hard and be a successful person.
On the way back from class today, I stopped by the market to buy some groceries as it was my turn to cook for the house this week. I found the new bread stall that had been under construction now opened and decided to buy a sandwich that looked not too bad in the picture.
The person in charge looked quite new to her job as she still had to look at the menu to see what to put into the sandwich and how much it cost when I paid for it. I was quite happy at what I got. This was because finally, my little town -Kursk is finally starting to produce more decent burger and sandwich stalls that can be found in other cities in Russia.
Ps : I only managed to take a picture of the sandwich and for the birth giving process, I couldn't take any picture hence sorry for the lack of any picture on that part.

New Injury,Classes and Dumplings

It has been a few weeks since I last updated, although I have been having a laid back time due to the relaxing classes and schedule. Last Saturday, while playing volleyball(not training, just having some fun time with my teammates) I reinjured my left leg which makes my record of 3 leg injuries in 3 consecutive months.(first I injured my left ankle on a basketball training on April, then my right ankle last month during volleyball games and now my left ankle again).
I haven't had any injury during my volleyball training for the past 3 years of playing it and all of the sudden I start to get injuries so frequently, I am really wondering what has gone wrong. Here are some postulations, my current sport shoes are a bit too loose and for aesthetic purpose I skipped down the last row of my shoe lace and tied it one row below so that the "lip" of the shoes will protrude more.
For prophylaxis of further injury, I will be buying basketball shoes and ankle guard. I will also do some ankle strengthening exercises.
This week I am having obstetrics and gynecology cylce. Upon reaching the class we were asked to go down to the registration counter and ask for the key to the changing room and change into our surgical gowns.
The place we had to go to change was underground and the stairs down was pretty scary with the lights on the stairs flickering non stop and steep staircases. To add to the matter, the changing room was in fact a room with bars to lock our stuff in, giving it a jail cell look. The place was also dark and very chilly giving all of us a sort of feeling that the place was what the Chinese call "dirty".
Today, I came home early as teacher had a conference that she had to attend to. So I decided to try once more making the "man tau" and dumplings with the red bean paste that I took so much effort and went through hell to make.
This time, I was rewarded as both the dumpling and the man tau seemed nice to me.

3 new items

Spring is finally here and with the weather turning warmer, the people around are starting to remove their jacket and change into their spring and summer closet wear. As the change of weather starts, it is also time for a change of lifestyle.
I have been lazing around the house and been slacking from my usual home work out after my leg injury a few weeks back. Now, with my leg back to 90% of its former condition, I have decided to make it a habit to have a jog near my house everyday, as often as possible so as to keep myself fit and to do some workout as recommended by the cardiologist I went to see last year.
This week, I've bought a few new things to add to my room and accessories. Among them are 3 more expensive stuff being a microphone (since my old one has gone haywire and can not detect any sound sometimes due to a loose connection between the wire and the microphone.), a slipper (I've been wanting to buy 1 for a very long time) and lastly a flower( to add some spring feeling to the room and to add more oxygen content in the room)
Firstly, I bought the flower in the market near the school for 40rubles and a pot for 50rubles if I still remembered correctly. I choose this particular one after looking at all the available flower at the stalls. One of the reason I chose it was due to its color. The resemblance of blue and purple made me get it. The flower also have a very strong smell to come with it.
Then I bought the slippers from a shop in a mall. After much thought, I bought the one that is the cheapest and still looks not to bad (since I am stingy and know that I should not spend so much to prevent giving my parents too much of a burden to my parents financially). I was a bit sad that I had to pay an amount of 550 rubles. But as I approached the counter and paid for my purchase, I was told that my card has an amount of 160 rubles of discount thus making me pay only an amount of 390 for the slippers which made me feel a tiny wee bit better.
Lastly due to the constant nagging by all my friends and parents while cam chatting with them that they could not hear me well and now that my microphone has gone completely haywire, I decided to get the cheapest microphone I could get my hands on. I almost bought a more expensive microphone due to its cool looks but with my friend there to remind me that all I needed was the basic type. I settled with buying the cheapest one that cost me only 299 rubles.