What do I do With This Urge to go Abroad

I'm not sure if being caught in the hamster's wheel called daily lab work is the cause of this, but the last few days, I've turned quite crazy about going abroad to study and doing internships. Maybe it's also because of my talks with people who have amazing stories of their time spent in foreign countries, like my old school mate Hai, who exchanged to Singapore for a semester and lived in the most breath-taking flat I've ever seen. Hearing his stories made my feet itchy again. Or maybe it's the fact that the plan of interning in a Vietnamese hospital next summer is getting more and more real for me and two other friends of mine. Gosh, I can't wait already.

I can never repeat often enough that, at least during this phase of my life, one year can change so many things. Last year around this time, after the Physikum basically, I didn't think about going abroad to study. I always thought the German educational system, particularly for medical schools, is quite good already; so why bother going somewhere far away to study? Internships, yes, doing them abroad was definitely on my list; but a whole semester? Nope. Not until now. I guess it wouldn't hurt to check out the education in a country like, I don't know, the USA maybe, or Canada, or the UK. And now my goal of a semester spent abroad isn't solely to receive good education anymore, but obviously to see more of the world, too. That should have been in my head since the beginning already. I don't know why it wasn't. Spending months in a country, living there - that's something completely different than visiting it like a tourist for a few days.

The plan now is to apply for ERASMUS next year. I'm favoring Scandinavian countries, not least because I've heard great things about their way of teaching from other German students who've been there. Then I want to do one third of my intern year in the USA. Brr, thinking of that excites me, but the thought of money comes parallel to it, too. Of course I'm gonna apply for some scholarships, and I'm pretty sure I'll get them, but I doubt that will be really enough (especially for the States, when overly ambitious me wants to intern in famous hospitals in expensive cities).

Soooooo. I just have to work my butt off, don't I?

Even though there might be some time conflicts, I really hope all my plans can come true. If not, then hopefully some parts. At least I can be quite sure about Vietnam already.

Gosh. I can't wait.

Food Addictions

Gosh, this Book Bucket Challange on Facebook is totally ruining my hobby priorities. I get reminded of books I wanted to read since ages ago everywhere I look. How am I supposed to live with this urge to read when I actually planned to focus a little more on filmmaking, wanting to complete my very first short film in the near future? I can see it already, I'm gonna ditch my film project very soon. :((

Gosh I hate this. I mean, I have absolutely no control over my creativity surges. When I feel like reading more than filmmaking,  my cinematographic whim will automatically fade away so fast I won't be able to do anything about it. And when there's no whim, there's no creativity. This just sucks! :(

Yeah, yeah, I know, Ebola is spreading in Africa and Ukrainians in the East can't sleep at night over the sounds of gunshots. I'm in no place to complain over such banal things. So, moving on... :(

I have a new food addiction. It's pizza. (Not much of a better topic, is it?)

Anyway, I realized that I tend to have temporary obsessions with many different kinds of edible... stuff. And 'temporary' comprises of the timespan from weeks to months to years. Let me just list them already.