Tis a strange thing when one thought, a memory, a person is constant in once mind. It often does in moments which are less than ideal. Distracting. It keeps festering in your mind, it can be a song, book, poem that seems to relate to a situation in your own life. The thing is it often time it isn´t about an earth shattering event in your own life, because truth to be told how often does something earth shattering happen in our life’s, but something so mundane that on top of the distraction we beat ourselves up about the ridicules amount of time we spend thinking about this mundane thing.

Subject closed.

Ok let´s not kid ourselves I wont start reading anything NOT medicine related anytime soon so I will not even suggest so now.

No from today till the 11 of February when I will be finished with all exams for this semester I will only read medicine. After that we will see.

So what´s been going on ?  I have already finished two of my exams, one was oral and did well and very well in those two.

Now I am struggling with preparing for the next five.

Yesterday I watched the movie “Easy A” for a second time, because it is really good and friends wanted to see it as well. The day before that I watched “The kings speech” and a few days before that “ 127 hours” and “ Black swan” therefore I am undergoing intense preparation for the upcoming OSCAR – NIGHT 2011 which is happening on the 27´th of February.



„Wizard of the Month

Harry Potter
( 1980 – )

The boy who lived, only known survivor of the Avada Kedavra curse and conqueror of Lord Voldemort, also known as Tom Riddle. Harry Potter joined the reshuffled Auror Department under Kingsley Shaklebolt at age 17, rising to become Head of said department in 2007.“

But this should just be an overview since I do not want to write a biography about these three sisters.
You can find that on the web if you are interested and I am very sure it will be better written then it would be if I had tried to write one.
In the last year I have -except for the last Harry Potter instalment – only read the books of the Brontes and although I haven´t read all of them yet (yes I know very sad , if you consider it to be a one year span of time,… but hey medcine takes up loads of time). But well, I read some of them and since I throughly enjoyed every one of the books I read from all three of them I wanted to take an opportunity to discuss and recommend them.

So here it goes.

I read all the three books published from the sisters in 1847 (their first novels) namely , „Jane Eyre“ from Charlotte Bronte, „Wuthering Hights “ from Emily Bronte, and „Agnes Grey“ from Anne Bronte.
I also read the 1848 published “ Tenant of Wildfell hall“ again form Anne Bronte and I am just know reading „Villette“ from Charlotte Bronte which was published in 1853.

I think it is commonly known that Wuthering Hights and Jane Eyre are the works of the Bronte Sisters that are best known because they are supposed to be superior to the others.
And while I agree that these two books are masterpieces I always thought that the work of Anne Bronte was dismissed to easily.
Although Agnes Grey is surely a book that should be read at least by anybody who enjoyed reading Jane Austen books – for it is no doubt superior to those – I would agree that it might not be a match for Jane Eyre and Wuthering Hights.
The novel Agnes Grey, like the novel Jane Eyre focuses on the life of a governess, a fate most girls who had a good education but no hopes in marrying rich had to follow. There are of course vast differences in those two novels, to mention a few, Agnes Grey has an intact home life whereas Jane Eyre’s parents are dead. Therefore, Jane Eyre experienced more hardship in her life while growing up.
And the other major difference might be that Agnes Grey is not happy with the family for which sheworks while Jane Eyre finds her first real home at the house where she is working.

So why do I think the book Jane Eyre is superior to Agnes Grey?
I think the major difference is in the way the characters are written.
The character of Jane Eyre and Mr. Rochester are so well written they could be alive and the dialogs between the two of them are not only a match but a few notches better then the ones between Mr. Darcy and Eliza Bennett from Pride and Prejudice, and those where already excellent.

The dialogs are better because they do not always talk about love and each other , Jane Eyre -in contrast to Eliza Bennett – is a very well educated person who can discuss things like biology, philosophy, art and literature with Mr. Rochester but of course most of all they discuss morality which was also one major point of discussion between Eliza and Mr. Darcy.
In other words, Jane Eyre seems not only a match but sometimes even superior to Mr. Rochester in her discussion because she is the master of rational argument, Eliza Bennet on the other hand often seems like a girl who articulates her feelings, very well I have to admit but still just her feelings and most of the time she is inferior to Mr. Darcy.
The plot of Tenant of Wildfell Hall, as well as the way it is written can – in my opinion – easily hold up to the standards of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Hights.
Interestingly enough the book starts with a male narrator, which caught me quit of guard and I was surprised to find out that Anne would write from the point of view of a man, but after about 100 pages -if I remember correctly- it changes into the perspective of a woman because said man reads the diary of a woman and this continues almost to the end.
Now I will not give away anything of the plot because in this book this would really take away something from the wonderful reading experience, I will just give you one quote of the book that was printed on the backside of the book and which defenitely got my attention:

„„I no longer love my husband, I hate him“ , the words stare me in the face like a guilty confession.„

Last but not least I should probably say something to Wuthering Hights, it really is the book I read last and since I read it during my internship in the hospital when I did not have a lot of time to spare for reading, I have to confess it took a while.
I really recommend everyone to read this book a bit faster in order to not forget something from the beginning when you are in the middle.
This is a book that tells a story about mainly two persons Cathrin and Hethcliff in different phases in their life – simultaneously.
So while the narrator (suprisingly enough here a man as well) has met the said persons he asks questions about their past.
So you have the „now experience“ with the told stories from various different times.

I think it is easily imaginable that you can get mixed up there pretty quickly if you allow long reading gaps.

Nevertheless it´s a book you should absolutely read, the fate of Cathrin Earnshaw and Mr. Heathwcliff is something no one should miss.

Wuthering Hights is the book of the Bronte that convinces with such an original plot and twists in the story that it takes your breath away.
While Jane Eyre and Tenant of Wildfell Hall also have a plot which is full of surprises they do not reach the same level. They are however superior in their characters and the way they develop over the course of the novel as well as the interaction between different characters.

So this has been my Bronte experience, I can only recommend to any of you try it as well !

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Thanks to Alex

So here three pictures from the beginning of the line:

And just for the recored, Cindy and I did not dress up!!!!

Jup, here you can see that the whole city had gone Potter mad… all along on Oxford street you could see people walking around dressed up like that like it was the most natural thing ever…

So this is us sitting in the line:

And the sad end this is the airport where I read the last words of the Harry Potter instalment…schnief…

It was amazing soooo many people where there I think someone said in the end shortly before midnight about 6000 poeple where quing but I can´t be sure.

When it was midnight Waterstones opened but we still had to wait about an hour to get into the shop although it was a really big one and the only book sold, was obviolsy the final potter instalment.

So we had to wait for about an hour… the worst thing was that the people who had already bought the book left the store at the backside and so had to walk through the quie while holding theri books… I swear it was soo much temptation to just snatch one from them and to run away.

Once Cindy and I had bought our copys we left and hurried back to our hostle (which was just a 5 minutes walk) we imidiatly headed to the common room, because we obivously couldn´t read in our bedroom that we shared with 6 other people and going to bed at about 1:30 am was NOT AN OPTION..

It was the funniest thing, we walked into the common roome and sitting there where already like 6 people reading Harry Potter , they told us they had started camping infront of the store on Wensdey and since they where such a large group they had split they time half of theme always sleeping in the hostel half of them in a dent in front of the store. they where from denmark if I remember correctly but I am not sure since we met so many poeple from different countrys like from Japan, Switzerland, France …. who had all come jsut to buy and read the Harry Potter book in England and to be able to buy it at midnight.

All in all it was amazing and totally worth the stress and the sleepless night.
The book of course is amazing, but I expected nothing less … well read for yourselfe if you haven´t already.

Hier dass worauf wir – also auf jeden fall ich – schon ewig gewartet habe.

Was denkt ihr? Schreibt mir!

Nebenbei coole Szene hier oder, ist bestimmt als Sirius durch den „veil“ fällt!

That will be all on that subject…. let´s move on, so…ähmm one of the most recent developments in the Harry Potter Universes the book cover, soo …drumm roll … here they are.

By the way there is also a contest for fans to draw their idea of what the cover should look like, you should really check this out, there are some really good ones.

What are you thinking?
What are you feeling?

Tell me !!

Jup, das ist doch toll oder?
Ja das habe ich mir auch gedacht. Die Aufgaben dort sind ja die ersten 3 Tage ganz interessant aber dann wiederholt es sich doch stark aber ich denke alle die schon mal Zivil- Dienst gemacht haben wissen wovon ihch rede.
Blutdruck, Temperatur, Puls und Blutzucker messen. Getränke verteilen, Betten und andere Dinge von A nach B bringen, Essen austeile, zu Patienten laufen wenn diese klingeln und ihnen bei allen Tätigkeiten die sie nicht alleine schaffen helfen, und wenn ich alle sage dann meine ich das auch…. ich denke wir wissen alle was gemeint ist.

Naja schon nach 6 Tagen Praktikum muss ich sagen, ich weiß jetzt ganz genau warum ich Medizin Studiere und nicht Krankenschwester werden möchte.
Das Schlimmste ist ich kann mich nicht einmal beruhigen indem ich sage “ nur noch 18 Arbeitstage“ den Obwohl das für diese Ferien gilt muss ich im nächsten Semester  noch weitere 60 Tage also 48  Arbeitstage Praktikum machen..JUCHU… nie wieder auschlafen.
Aber schlaf, ach, wer braucht schon schlaf, oder freizeit…ICH? Nein wieso denn.

Das schöne ist schon mal die Atmosphäre im Krankenhaus kennenzulernen und immer die Minuten die man braucht wenn man nach dem Ende seiner Schicht von der Station zum Auto zu gehen, denn diese Minuten werden wahrscheinlich genau so sein wenn ich ein Artzt bin… und daher stelle ich mir immer wenn ich in das Auto steige und nach Hause fahre vor, dass ich schon Artzt bin und gerade nach einer wichtigen OP endlich nach hause kann.
Wired, ich weiß aber hey alles was mich bei diesen terror- „Ferien“ am leben erhält ist wilkommen!!!!

Genißt euere Ferien (fals ihr sie habet, ich denke auch an euch arbeitenden nicht studierenden, Sarah, Torben, Chrissie und Berit) und euer ausschlafen und für die Arbeitetnden… wenigstenst verdient ihr Geld , ich nicht keinen cent!

In dem Sinne zu mir selber Kopf, Hoch, 18 Tage, 144 Stunden, 8640 minuten oder 518400 sekunden müssen, ja sie müssen einfach vergehen!!!!