Nursing school

Nursing school started yesterday. We had orientation last Thursday and already had a ton to read and homework due yesterday on the first day of class, wowee wow. What have we gotten ourselves into? It's gonna be crazy and worth it. I was going to post about our second week in Michigan and about our camping trip last week before school started but I don't think I'll have a chance to do that. We camped near Aspen all last week on both sides of Independence Pass - the prettiest pass ever. It was beautiful and amazing and challenging. Then we stayed in a hotel at the end of it in Snowmass Village for 1 night and got drinky. There was a heated pool and a private balcony and a view. It was grrreat.
We have an exam in 1 week already and we will see our very first real human patients on Sept 4th. We can't get lower than 77% in our classes in order to stay in the program. I hope I'm way higher than 77%. So far, the quiz yesterday was VERY hard. I didn't know half of the words in the questions. I need to work on medical vocab. There are only 3 of us in the class that are starting in the medical field for the very first time EVER. Everyone else has years of experience in the medical field. It's all so foreign to me - a whole new language so I've got LOTS to study to even understand the textbooks.
Nutrition class is a fresh breath of air. There are more than just nursing students in there - so lots of young kids that are funny and quirky and immature - I love it. We had to draw pics of what we eat and most of the kids in the class had stuff like the McDonalds logo alone as their drawing and beer and bacon. Me and Dan are old and nerdy and had stuff like beets, hummus, fish, etc on ours.
All of the teachers seem great and the entire nursing staff seems very supportive because they know it's gonna be hard for us all. There is even a specially designated woman who focuses on JUST supporting us. Whether it's for a hug, counseling, finding a babysitter, helping find scholarships, etc. She is sweet and nice to have around, especially since my mom doesn't live at hugging distance from me.