MATCHED!

We matched in Philadelphia, here for 3 more years! She was a little upset at our result, she was hoping to return to Chicago to be close to family, but after the initial shock she feels better and likes the fact that we don't have to move far.

Yes we are potentially moving to a new place, our very first "place." We started to look but a lot of things are still up in the air, like start date etc. We get our contracts and employment details in a couple of weeks.

Coming up is a 5 week vacation in Europe that we're looking forward to, well at least I am, she is a bit nervous. She hasn't traveled much recently but she does have travel experience. I think she's just nervous because it's new and it's not something she would have done (going away for 5 weeks). I think we can fit vacation, moving, etc before residency starts sometime in June though.

Graduation: May 17th!

I could not have done the things I did this year without God, who took my father to a better place and left me his money to fund my interviews and take this lovely vacation, who also put in place everything we needed to match well! He also allowed me to stay here to continue to volunteer at local clinic that I've worked at for the past 4 years.

The blog will continue, I'll try to remember to post. As usual, Flickr is where I keep my pictures.