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  the Riddle

  hooray!!! i finished the riddle!!!

  susan g started this discussion 5 months ago.

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  Gianna L 

  now read the crow!!

  posted 4 months ago.

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  Ivana S 

  the riddle was my favorite! i was really happy with the ending

  posted 4 months ago.

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    susan g 

    me too. (the ending...) i love the part where she finds cadvan again and everything gets explained. i was so mad at them earlier in the book for being so touchy to each other every time one of them tried to smooth things out.

    posted 4 months ago.

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    Ivana S 

    omg me 2. lol it drove me crazy, i hated how the littlest thing could kinda make them very aloof towards each other. but the ending made up for it.

    posted 4 months ago.

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    susan g (edited)

    yeah. and you kinda get the feeling that after the big fight where cadvan "dies" they would have made it up to each other, but then they get separated and she has all this guilt.... what's "lol"? i've been trying to figure it out, but i give up.

    posted 4 months ago.

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    Ivana S 

    haha it means laugh out loud

    posted 4 months ago.

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    susan g 

    stupid me. (lol...) thnx.

    posted 4 months ago.

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    Ivana S 

    no problem hahaha

    posted 4 months ago.

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    susan g 

    nice new picture.

    posted 4 months ago.

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    Ivana S 

    thx! i was in ireland when we took this, the guyin the middle was this hilarious old guy, and i guess in the summer whn all the young tiourist girls come he always takes pictures with them, but it was an off season when I went so he was reeally excited when my freind and I walked in the pub. and when we said thanks for the picture and were a bout to walk away he grabbed by butt. if he wasn't so old and cute i thjink I would have smacked him! but it was funny so we just walked away and laughed!

    posted 4 months ago.

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    susan g 

    ireland?!?!? i'm soooooo jealous!!!! i know that gianna is too, cuz she tells me all the time that she wants to go there... (right g?) i'm more than half irish, but i've never been out of this country. he grabbed your butt??? awkward turtle. (as my twelve year old sister would say...)

    posted 4 months ago.

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    Ivana S 

    haha it is extremely beautiful there. if you ever ave the chanc to go there tke it. t's incredible. I got lucky and went on a trip with clse freinds and we cross country horsback rode across ireland. it was, in a word, incredible. but ya Mickey, that was th old guys' name, he grabbed my butt, it was weird but he was so adorable i just ad to laugh at it!

    posted 4 months ago.

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    susan g 

    cross country horseback riding?!?!? there's two things that i'm absolutely crazy about: the lord of the rings, and horseback riding. i take lessons, but i've never been on a trail ride. i'm hoping to soon...sometimes our teacher lets us take one at the stables.

    posted 4 months ago.

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    Gianna L 

    Ivana you are sooo lucky!!!! I've never been out of this freaking country before and I really want to see Ireland!!! You are both lucky because you get to go horseback riding.

    posted 4 months ago.

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    Gianna L 

    Sounds like you had a good time in Ireland. If some old dude grabbed my butt though, I'd probably dismember him. I'm kinda touchy.

    posted 4 months ago.

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    susan g 

    and i would blow him up personally. (if evil geniuses are touchy, mad scientists are waaaaayy more....after all, we're basically like bombs. that's how we express ourselves.) i didn't know you liked horses, g.

    posted 4 months ago.

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    Ivana S 

    haha i was gonna say sumthin but he was so old and adorable. and yea i luv horses! 11 years riding in counting! lol and irealand was soo amazing, I want to go back soooo bad!! haha

    posted 4 months ago.

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    Gianna L 

    next time you go, you have to take us with you!! ;) i do like horses, but there arent really any places to ride near me and im always soooo busy.

    posted 4 months ago.

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    Ivana S 

    yes yes, i'll be sure to smuggle you all in my suitcase! haha no one would even notice! ohh thats a bummer that there isn't ne were to ride!

    posted 4 months ago.

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    susan g (edited)

    ha ha, yes, definitely....to all those statements. i'm almost done with the crow!!! one more chapter!!! i'm so sad that ivana dies!!!!!!!! (oops, i mean zelika....i left in that typo because it was so funny!!!) it's so unfair...of all the children that had to be in front of her, why did it have to be her BROTHER??? (when things like this happen in books, i tend to think of all the things that could have been done to prevent it.......i mean, seriously, why couldn't ac have killed off someone else -- soron, for instance. the girl he loves is already dead. hem could still have gone to den raven, just found out at the end that zelika HAD escaped and was with hared at nar ak burat or whatever it's called.....)

    posted 4 months ago.

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    Ivana S 

    yea i hear ya, i was so bummed when she died, i was like no way!!!! but i'm not sure if I would have liked it that much better if she had lived, i sort of knew even before she died that it was going to happen, she was just the right character for the situation. her death gives him something to fight for, so had she lived there might have been something missing. Or perhaps i'm wrong. but that's how I see it hehe

    posted 4 months ago.

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    susan g 

    i know this sounds evil, but i would rather saliman died than zelika...ok, maybe not....but definitely someone else should have died. no, you're still right, ivana, i just wish she didn't dieeeeee.......aha ha whaaah boo hoooooo!!!!!! i really wanted him to marry her....... ok, on to another subject...i'm getting too worked up. i finished the crow!!! WHEN is the singing coming out?!?!?!? (stupid publishing companies!!!)

    posted 4 months ago.

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    Ivana S 

    yea i understand, i didn't want her to die either, but it sorta just works out that way unfortunately. i think it's coming out... OMG i just cheked amazon.com and it said march 10th '09. omg i can't wait that long! that is so depressing!

    posted 4 months ago.

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    susan g 

    aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that's almost half a year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i can't exist!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (goodbye world.)

    posted 4 months ago.

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    Ivana S 

    i know! i almost died when i saw that!! ahhhhhhhhh it's so freaking long. i hope there are support groups for this sort of thing! haha i'm ganna need it. i sort of hoping that for some reason Amazon was wrong and they have the wrong date.

    posted 4 months ago.

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  Gianna L 

  I don't understand why the publishers keep pushing the release date back. I wish that one of us lived in the UK because most books are released there months before they're released in the US!!!

  posted 4 months ago.

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    susan g 

    *sigh* i know. they're so annoying!!! I FOR ONE would be willing to pay a bit more if they let them out sooner!!!
    
    you know, ivana, we could start our own support group here on shelfari....don't know if that's the kind of support group you meant though, lol. we could delete it when the books FINALLY come out.
    
    you know, that countdown-till-brisingr-comes-out thing on alagaesia.com just makes me more depressed, rather than less.....

    posted 4 months ago.

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    Ivana S 

    hahaha yea we should start a support group. lol I wonder if you can order the books from the UK and then have them shipped to the US. it might be a bit more expensive thouhg, lol but i don't really care! i want to know what happens soooo bad!

    posted 4 months ago.

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    Gianna L 

    That's a good idea, Ivana. We should all check that out.

    posted 4 months ago.

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    susan g 

    yeah, i'm pretty sure you can...i mean, you can get redwall books that way, but they do have their own official store online....it is more expensive, even that way...i really hope you can get all books that way.....

    posted 4 months ago.

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    max09 

    Hey guys! yes very depressing that they could even think it possible for us die hard fans to wait that long, but maybe people in who already have the book would consider selling it on ebay. That way we could cheat and get before march of next year! :)

    posted 4 months ago.

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    Gianna L 

    Yeah!! Maybe Ebay or Amazon would be selling the British or Australian versions to us pitiful Americans.
    I suppose publishers just build up the suspense by shoving the release date back twelve centuries. ;)

    posted 4 months ago.

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    max09 (edited)

    Guys GREAT NEWS!!!! I figured out the confusion. "The Singing" is coming out in September of this year. It will be available in paperback. The HARDCOVER COPY is the one that will be coming out in March of 2009! :D
    
    http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/alison-croggon/

    posted 4 months ago.

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    susan g 

    max09, you have brought us poor starving people hope unlooked-for. (unfortunately, it's still a really long time till september....3 1/2 months!!!! aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! what are we gonna do???)

    posted 4 months ago.

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    Gianna L 

    AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    
    LOVE YOU MAX!!!!! (You guys know what I mean)

    posted 4 months ago.

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    catsnclarinets (liz) 

    now thats alot better. 'cause i didn't really want to have to wait that long to be able to read the singing. yea!!!! i'm happier now even though we still have to wait for, like, forever it's still not as long a wait as it was.

    posted 4 months ago.

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    susan g 

    i know...it's still too long...i'm kinda stuck in a rut at the moment...i'm sposed to be doing this summer reading program where you read 100 books, but i've only got up to 11 so far...i just don't feel like reading anything at the moment that's not fantasy, and nothing's out yet!!!

    posted 4 months ago.

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  Gianna L 

  100 books?? Hmm....I would have trouble finding that many books that I would actually like to read.

  posted 4 months ago.

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    susan g 

    well, no, it's not that hard exactly, i mean, i'm going to do it some year like that cuz it would be more challenging, but actually, every fifty pages after the first hundred counts as another book...so you see, i've only really read three different books....which gives you an idea of how stuck i am.....

    posted 4 months ago.

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    Gianna L 

    Oh. That's different.

    posted 4 months ago.

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    susan g 

    yeah. but see how stuck i am? you got any ideas?

    posted 4 months ago.

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    Ivana S 

    omg I could totally send you a list of a bunch of books you could read! can they all be fantasy? I don't really read anything other than that. lol

    posted 4 months ago.

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    susan g 

    ha ha, neither do i. bring 'em on!

    posted 3 months ago.

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    Gianna L 

    Well, I don't mind reading books from other genres, but fantasy is definitely my favorite!!

    posted 3 months ago.

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    susan g 

    uhhhhh....same here? i'm assuming that's the same for everyone in this group. could be wrong though.

    posted 3 months ago.

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    Gianna L 

    Yeah. We're all fanatics, so that should be a no-brainer.

    posted 3 months ago.

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    susan g 

    hey! that reminded me....ivana could be the fanatical one or something.....;)

    posted 3 months ago.

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    Gianna L 

    Yeah, fanatical about the Pellinor quartet (or whatever AC calls it).

    posted 3 months ago.

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    Ivana S 

    yea fanatical...i really like that. okay i think that one is my choice! the fanatical one. yup I like it! and i'll get a bug list of books together for ya.

    posted 3 months ago.

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    susan g 

    *gleeful grin* yes! please send me a list of books!!! i soooo stuck right now!!!
    
    yeah, 'the fanatical one' is definitely right for you.

    posted 3 months ago.

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    Gianna L 

    I like it too. Has anyone read anything even remotely interesting lately??

    posted 3 months ago.

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    Ivana S 

    I just read "A countess below the Stairs" it was okay. The style of writing was very odd, but I enjoyed the story line. There was actually a lot more history than I was expecting, but the characters were very nicely explained. So over all it was a good book, but not my favorite.

    posted 3 months ago.

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    susan g 

    yeah, i've read books like that.

    posted 3 months ago.

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    Ivana S 

    it gets a bit frustrating lol

    posted 3 months ago.

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    Gianna L 

    Cool, Ivana. I wanted to read that book but my library doesn't have it.

    posted 3 months ago.

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    Ivana S 

    well if we lived even remotly close to each other i would lend it to you, but seeong as were not exactly neighbors...hahaha

    posted 3 months ago.

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    Gianna L 

    Too true. All too true.
    
    I think that it would be so awesome if there was a website that you could join that had books online! They could send you a couple chapters of whatever book every week. That would be awesome if there is a website like that. HEY!!! I know how we can make a billion dollars! WE could start a company like that! (Okay. I'm kinda joking and kinda not)

    posted 3 months ago.

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    Ivana S 

    omg no that is such a great idea. umm ur a genius.

    posted 3 months ago.

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    Gianna L 

    Thank you, thank you very much. Or (if we weren't interested in making money) we could simply start a website for AC fans.

    posted 3 months ago.

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    susan g 

    yeah, except we ARE interested in making money, remember? we need to make ac's books into movies???
    
    oh yeah, btw, i'm back, lol.....

    posted 3 months ago.

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    Ivana S 

    I plan on putting a current picture up, lol so you can all see for your selves!

    posted 3 months ago.

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  Gianna L 

  Of course! But, ya know, after we're billionaires, we could do a not-for-profit website type thang. (the a was intentional)

  posted 3 months ago.

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    max09 

    Some websites have stuff like that I think there called ebooks.

    posted 3 months ago.

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    susan g 

    sure. as long as it's AFTER we're billionaires.....

    posted 3 months ago.

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    max09 

    billionaires many times over!!!!

    posted 3 months ago.

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    Ivana S 

    this plan is sounding better and better.

    posted 3 months ago.

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    max09 

    Of course it is! Look who came up with the idea.

    posted 3 months ago.

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    Ivana S 

    haha yes, very true!

    posted 3 months ago.

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    susan g 

    ummm...who DID come up with the idea? i'm completely lost on that point...you realize how long we've been talking about this....or did you mean all of us as a group? silly me, blonde moment, lol.

    posted 3 months ago.

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    Ivana S 

    I do believe that Gianna came up with the idea. i gatta get a new picc of me, i got my hair cut, and now it's really really short!

    posted 3 months ago.

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    catsnclarinets (liz) 

    is it a good thing that it's short?

    posted 3 months ago.

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    Ivana S 

    yup! I really like it. It's a totally drastic change, but I'm really glad (I was getting bored with long hair) lol

    posted 3 months ago.

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    catsnclarinets (liz) 

    i havelong though i could never stand to get it cut short again too short that is...

    posted 3 months ago.

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    max09 

    Is it as short as a pixie cut?
    

    posted 3 months ago.

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    Gianna L 

    I've always wondered how I would look with a Victoria Beckham bob. I like having long hair though, because I dance and I have to put it up in buns a lot.

    posted 3 months ago.

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    max09 

    Aww man that was a super cute hair style VB had even though she annoys me. How long have you been a dancer?

    posted 2 months ago.

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    Ivana S 

    do you dance ballet? my best friend has done ballet for like 13 years i think. Yea I can see why cutting your hair would be a problem, buns are hard with short hair, believe you me. lol. I'm ganna have a hard time getting my hair to stay inmy riding helmet.

    posted 2 months ago.

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    Gianna L 

    Yes, I dance ballet. Only ballet. I want to try other stuff, like hip-hop, modern, and jazz, but I'm just too busy. I've been dancing for nearly 9 years.
    
    I think that both the Beckhams are kinda obnoxious. What made DB famous anyway? It's not like he's a spectacular soccer player.

    posted 2 months ago.

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    susan g 

    cool ivana! even if it's hard to stay put, short hair looks so cute under a riding helmet!!! i usually just stick my hair in a low ponytail when i'm riding. i love long hair, i could never cut mine short. i mean, i like short on other people, but on me, it just wouldn't work. i'm trying to grow my hair out super long....like, down to my hips, but i keep forgetting to cut it until it's so messed up i have to cut it as short as my shoulder blades. waaaah!!!

    posted 2 months ago.

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    Gianna L 

    Yeah, my hair always gets really dry in the summer because I swim a lot. I had to get a trim a few weeks ago.

    posted 2 months ago.

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    susan g 

    yeah, i promised myself when i last cut it that i'd do it again in august, which (annoyingly, since it means school is in soon.....]:( grrrrr!) is here. gotta do it one of these days............

    posted 2 months ago.

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    max09 

    I liked having short hair it was easier to deal w/ in my experience. But I won't be getting a hair cut anytime soon

    posted 2 months ago.

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    susan g 

    how long is your hair now?

    posted 2 months ago.

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    max09 

    Shoulder lenghth usually keep it shoulder growing it for senior portraits.

    posted 2 months ago.

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    susan g 

    oh. mine is down to the middle of my back.

    posted 2 months ago.

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    Ivana S 

    grr i'm jealous of ur long hair, I miss mine a lot now. I like my short hair, but I do miss my long hair. *sniff sniff

    posted 2 months ago.

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    max09 

    its easier for mine to be short because of my medical internship

    posted 2 months ago.

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    susan g 

    medical internship?

    posted 2 months ago.

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    Gianna L 

    Yeah. Medical internship? Sounds cool.

    posted 2 months ago.

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    susan g 

    no, i mean, what is it?
    
    wow, g, like the picture!!! who is it? i'm going to go get a closer look....

    posted 2 months ago.

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    max09 

    You shadow doctors/nurses in the hospital and you get to do things like take their vital signs etc. So far I've signed up for the OR, Emergency room, Antepartum, Nursery.... We go Mondays and Tuesday. We have scrubs and everything its the real deal. Your not even allowed to go to the hospital unless you pass all your test with a 90 or above. We start going to the hospital on 8th and 9th of September. I am so excited.

    posted 2 months ago.

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    Ivana S 

    wow! that sounds so great! my high school offers something similar to that. (the Kingston hospital it literally across the street from the HS) It's called New Visions. It's a really cool program, I have a couple friends that are doing it. And it's not limited to hospital kind of stuff, there is a lot. Llike education, mechanical, and piloting as well.

    posted 2 months ago.

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    max09 

    Our program is called the Sparkman Medical Academy. We got to the hospitals and we also go to any place involved in the medical field like dentist office veterinarian office, therapy offices. We are gonna be all over the place.

    posted 2 months ago.

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    Ivana S 

    that is such good experience!

    posted 1 month ago.

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    susan g 

    wow guys, that sounds really cool!!!!!!!! max, do you think you might want to go into doctoring/nursing as a profession?

    posted 1 month ago.

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    max09 

    I'm hoping this class will give the definite answer, but for now it is a yes.

    posted 1 month ago.

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    susan g 

    that's so cool!!! one of my aunts (she just graduated from college, she's 23) is thinking about nursing. so she's taking some extra night classes on nutrition and anatomy.

    posted 1 month ago.

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