At the hospital and scholarship

For those who were worried because of the title, I'm not sick or anything like. Wednesday, I went to the university hospital with classmates and professors as part of the Biomedical Engineering subject. So, that was a chance to see the equipments we usually only see in books, although most of them weren't operating at the time... especially those at the maintenance sector.

Also, some parts were interesting, like the laundry and the kitchen, which use vapour for some of their functions... And the amount of clothing to do laundry and food to cook is absurdly huge! One of the things that most people don't notice...

But the promised highlight was a visit to the Surgery Center. The opportunity to see the instruments working and, more than that, some "real action". Unfortunetely, when our group entered the place, there were few surgeries happening, and most of them about to finish... The only one that was going to take longer involved radiation. In other words, not recommended for spectators...

The only thing I regret was forgetting the camera at home. A group of Electric Engineering students wearing those surgeon clothings surely deserved a picture...

But the day wasn't over yet. But before continuing, a briefing is needed...

I decided to apply for the Monbusho (for people in Brazil, the Asebex link would be a better choice...) scholarship for my Master's degree. But because of tests, reports, etc. etc. I was overloaded with paperwork to send for the application last week (last week to send them). Well... it wouldn't have been a big deal if I haven't forgot about the study plan... I managed to "scratch" one, although it surely deserves heavy improvement (working on it...), losing some hours of sleep (and looking like a zombie during Wednesday's classes).

Back to this week's Wednesday...

My forms for the Monbusho scholarship were approved. And the language test is this Friday... Well... I must admit I haven't been studying neither English nor Japanese lately, so I'm a little worried. Writing on my blog and mailing friends surely help me not becoming too rusty, but I dunno if it's enough for a test... especially a Japanese test.

Anyway, I'll study what I can today and see the results tomorrow. There's not much else to do, and stressing over it will only make things worse. At least that will give me a real measure of my language ability for tests...