wo zai mei guo dao le! I'm back! hahaha...ok, my chinese sucks, but I did get to practice a bit, and they usually understood me.

I've moved in to VDC Norte, I'm so lucky. I was praying for housing every day, and God definitely does answer prayers. I look forward to seeing all of you.

Zai jian

Ryan

CHINA HERE I COME!!!!!!!!

I'll be gone from August 31 to September 15. I'll miss you IRVINE (but not too much)

Hasta la proxima vez! CIAO

-Ryan

I'M DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I took the MCAT today, and I am FREEEEEEEEE.............

sitting in that room for nine and a half hours....I was going crazy. BUT NOW, the PARTY STARTS!!!!!! I can finally start summer..for real now!

11 days until China..WOO HOO!

-ciao

Currently Listening Restored By Jeremy Camp see related

wow...........things change fast. my roomate's over in Korea, I'm stuck in Irvine stressing over the MCAT......................and it's STINKING HOT HERE! haha. At least I'm still breathing. Thank you God.

"I will praise the LORD, who counsels me; even at night my heart instructs me. I have set the LORD always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I will not be shaken."

                                                                                            Psalm 16: 7,8

ONLY THREE MORE WEEKS UNTIL THE MCAT...please pray for me, PLEASE! The infamous day: August 19th.

Currently Reading The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat : And Other Clinical Tales By Oliver Sacks see related

BROTHERLY LOVE:

"The physician is concerned [unlike the naturalist]...with a single organism, the human subject, striving to preserve its identity in adverse circumstances."  --Ivy McKenzie

I really like this quote, because it highlights the fact that doctors are humanists, and MONEY should NOT be their sole intent. So, before anyone wants to become a physician, one should check his motives. This sounds cliche, but many people with begin with good intentions and have a dream to go to med school..............and later, they lose sight of their goals and become driven by more shallow measures of success (money).

I too am guilty of this, which is why my medical missions to Mexico have kept me in check, and have developed more humanistic tendencies within me. My prayer is that God will constantly remind me of what I need to accomplish, who I will be helping, and ultimately who I will be glorifying (God), once I become a doctor.......if that is God's will.

"Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Honor one another above yourselves. Never be lacking in spiritual fervor, serving the Lord. Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer."
                                                                                                          Romans 12:9-12