So we survived Orientation week and the first week of med school! Last week we were happy to have Cam's parents with us for the week. Just before they came we had some adventures of our own.. Like I said in the last post, we had to move out of our first apartment because of the smoke smell, and so two days after I got back to Missouri, we were loading up this truck to move to our new apartment. Thanks to the angel missionaries and other nice guys in our ward, we moved everything on literally the hottest and most humid day of the year. That's how we roll :) ha.
We were living without a dryer for a few days, and needed to wash everything because it all smelled really bad from being in our smoky apartment :/ Thus instead of paying for a dryer at the laundromat, cam strung a string throughout the house and we air dried everything. My husband and his third world country living skills!
For the bigger items.. comforter and all of our blankets we used for packing, we did indeed take a trip to the sketchy laundromat. For the record, I was brave enough and went by myself. But when Cam called after orientation and found out I was alone there.. he came and sat with me. Which I'm grateful for :)
So here are some pictures of the new place!
Keep in mind I'm still unpacking/organizing, but here is the majority of it :)
Cam's parents came during orientation week, so while Cam was in class all afternoon, we went on some adventures:)
We discovered the Steamboat Arabia Museum downtown. It was amazing how many artifacts were recovered and restored from the sunken steamboat!
Thursday night the school treated everyone and their families to free tickets to a Royals baseball game, my first professional game of any sport ever :) haha yep. And for starters, our tailgate was so far away from the field, the nice golf cart man was awesome and gave us a ride to the field!
And it was fun! I kept asking Cam when all the cheers would start (I'm more of a basketball fan).. but we endured until the 8th inning, then decided we had had enough fun :) They won, so all is well!
Friday was family day at orientation, so we joined Cam on campus for some introductory lectures etc. Let's just say it was an adventure, and that I'm glad I'm not the one going to med school :)
Saturday morning was the white coat ceremony. It was basically like a graduation, where each student had to say their name "Student Doctor..." and then walked across the stage and had their coats placed on them by one of the deans. I was very proud of Cam, and the beginning of the adventure was finally real and starting!
And yes, it was matchy matcherton day! :) haha we had no idea we matched until we were ready to leave. But hey! We made it on the school's twitter page!
We are lucky enough to have our church building share a parking lot with the temple :) So although it was raining on Sunday, we hopped out of the cars long enough to take a quick pic before we drove Cam's parents to the airport.
It was great to have them here, and go on some adventures with people other than myself :) We are so grateful for family, and grateful his parents could visit and share in the beginning of this adventure with us. Now it's just me and Student Doctor Cam King!
Gotta have your first day of med school pic!
So that's us right now! This past week was the real jump into what will become the next two years of our life. Cam's at school from 8 until about 4 every day, then comes home and just studies until it's bed time, taking a break for dinner of course. I sneak cookies and milk up to him, and try to be quiet as he studies :) I don't brag about him ever.. but he is one of the hardest workers I know, and although it's been probably one of the most stressful weeks of his life, I have no doubt that he's going to succeed.
That's about all the excitement on this end. So keep your fingers crossed for us that we can sell our first apartment's contract, that I can find a job so I can feel like I'm contributing to society, and that Cam can pass his first midterm on Tuesday!
Happy Sunday :)
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