Wish me luck ...

Over a year has past since I started this blog to chronicle my European "education" ... which was unfortunately cut short when I (near as I can figure) simultaneously caught every cold and flu that I had missed out on upon my brief return to the US in July ... I missed my flight to Madrid, and subsequently my month and a half in Spain ... I beg my good spanish friends to forgive me ... perhaps Spain was not ready for me yet ... you will have a few more years to prepare :)





I am back in Cleveland now, and seeing how the good things have stayed the same during my absence (like bbq's on the front porch) ... my immune system is fully recovered just in time for my Infectious Disease rotation as I begin to pretend to be a doctor for real this time ... armed with my new perspectives and a massage table (I'm also taking classes to get certified in massotherapy), I'm ready to make a healing difference in peoples' lives ... all I have to do is remember all of the medicine that I forgot during my year off ....


Wish me luck ...

Final Few Days ...

During my final few days in Italy ... went to the sold out summer opera annual premiere of Verdi's Aida in the Verona amphetheatre (although unfortunately they didn't have live elephants this year) ...

And then was joined by a very dear friend, who helped me explore Urbino, Vicenza and gigantic quattro formaggio pizzas (lactose intolerance be damned!) ...

And then graduation ... according to the EU and three universities, I'm now credentialed as a advanced master of bioethics (finishing magna cum laude ... whatever that means in this situation ... if the priests in my program only finished cum laude, does that mean that I have a greater command of ethics?!? God help us ...)

What an interesting journey it's been for all of us ... much like with the quattro formaggio, I guess I just need more time to digest it all