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Had another interview where they went "You're great! We can tell! But you're inexperienced so, we're not saying no! ... but we're kind of saying no."
Oh well. They want me to shadow with them and see how things go, so at least it's a foot in the door. And the mobile endoscopy vet continues to be the loveliest person, dragging me to all the nice clinics he gets calls at. I am so grateful for the help I am receiving, honestly!
So! The Olympics! My experience for the past two have been as follows...
Vancouver 2010: Suffer through years and years of construction hell ONLY TO FLY OUT OF VANCOUVER THE DAY AFTER THE OPENING CEREMONIES. Though I obviously don't regret vet school in Australia, I do regret not being able to take part in the two weeks where Vancouver was at it's very best. Also Olympic coverage was not stellar in Australia, and even though I woke up at 5am-ish to watch the Men's Hockey gold medal game, what I got instead was the news with 1 minute snippets of the game until the third period. I watched alone and celebrated alone in my studio apartment with my Team Canada hockey jersey and went to my first day of school still wearing the jersey because I am that shameless.
London 2012: The housemates and I woke up again at like 5am to watch the Opening Ceremonies, and got our first taste of how the coverage in Australia would be (spoilers: It was awful). It was almost impossible to find anything other than swimming and rowing the first week-ish of the Olympics and the tone of the media towards the athletes (JUDGMENT AND DISAPPOINTMENT IN SILVER MEDAL PERFORMANCES, WTF) and the general lack of acknowledgement of the other countries and international scale of the Olympics left a sour taste in our mouths.
But Sochi 2014 was totally different. I was back in Canada where CBC did an absolutely amazing job with the coverage! Sure the time difference meant I only got to watch things live if I woke up early enough in the morning (and then sat in bed doing nothing else), but it was awesome getting to see all the athletes compete! And even though my housemate was now on the other side of the continent, when we watched an event "together" while keysmashing over the internet, Canada would inevitably come out on top. We cheered as Alexandre Bilodeau and Mikael Kingsbury topped the podium in Men's Moguls, we screamed at the Canadian women's ice hockey team until they found their drive in the last 3:30 of the game and then we screamed with them, we held our breaths in the men's ice hockey semifinals against the USA, and we celebrated throughout the gold medal game for hockey, even though I like the Sweden team WE WANTED THIS GOLD. I still can't believe I was up at 4am for that game. I am still paying for the sleep debt created as I then spent 8 hours shadowing at the vet clinic and then had to be up the next morning for some endoscope fun!
Anyway, it was just fantastic to be able to see so many of these sports and to be able to celebrate athletes and their performances from all over the world, either live or on replays!
(Except I couldn't handle the tension of curling no matter how hard I tried and always had to go watch something else more fast and furious. Curling!!!!)
/end Canadian pride!!!!
Oh well. They want me to shadow with them and see how things go, so at least it's a foot in the door. And the mobile endoscopy vet continues to be the loveliest person, dragging me to all the nice clinics he gets calls at. I am so grateful for the help I am receiving, honestly!
So! The Olympics! My experience for the past two have been as follows...
Vancouver 2010: Suffer through years and years of construction hell ONLY TO FLY OUT OF VANCOUVER THE DAY AFTER THE OPENING CEREMONIES. Though I obviously don't regret vet school in Australia, I do regret not being able to take part in the two weeks where Vancouver was at it's very best. Also Olympic coverage was not stellar in Australia, and even though I woke up at 5am-ish to watch the Men's Hockey gold medal game, what I got instead was the news with 1 minute snippets of the game until the third period. I watched alone and celebrated alone in my studio apartment with my Team Canada hockey jersey and went to my first day of school still wearing the jersey because I am that shameless.
London 2012: The housemates and I woke up again at like 5am to watch the Opening Ceremonies, and got our first taste of how the coverage in Australia would be (spoilers: It was awful). It was almost impossible to find anything other than swimming and rowing the first week-ish of the Olympics and the tone of the media towards the athletes (JUDGMENT AND DISAPPOINTMENT IN SILVER MEDAL PERFORMANCES, WTF) and the general lack of acknowledgement of the other countries and international scale of the Olympics left a sour taste in our mouths.
But Sochi 2014 was totally different. I was back in Canada where CBC did an absolutely amazing job with the coverage! Sure the time difference meant I only got to watch things live if I woke up early enough in the morning (and then sat in bed doing nothing else), but it was awesome getting to see all the athletes compete! And even though my housemate was now on the other side of the continent, when we watched an event "together" while keysmashing over the internet, Canada would inevitably come out on top. We cheered as Alexandre Bilodeau and Mikael Kingsbury topped the podium in Men's Moguls, we screamed at the Canadian women's ice hockey team until they found their drive in the last 3:30 of the game and then we screamed with them, we held our breaths in the men's ice hockey semifinals against the USA, and we celebrated throughout the gold medal game for hockey, even though I like the Sweden team WE WANTED THIS GOLD. I still can't believe I was up at 4am for that game. I am still paying for the sleep debt created as I then spent 8 hours shadowing at the vet clinic and then had to be up the next morning for some endoscope fun!
Anyway, it was just fantastic to be able to see so many of these sports and to be able to celebrate athletes and their performances from all over the world, either live or on replays!
(Except I couldn't handle the tension of curling no matter how hard I tried and always had to go watch something else more fast and furious. Curling!!!!)
/end Canadian pride!!!!