Mexico Medical Student |

I am so not happy with my neighborhood for constantly waking me up (more on why in a minute). I studied my ass off for my pathology exam only to find out that I needn’t have bothered if my objective was the highest grade I could get because 80% of the exam questions were all cut-and-pasted from the workbook that accompanies our text. I did go over those, because the prof said that some questions would come out of there, so I’d be dumb not to look that them, but more importantly, many of them are really tough questions that thoroughly test your understanding of the material. Pathology is one of the most, if not the most important class in the first two years, culminating everything one has had before, so I do feel somewhat cheated with our lazy professors. We have a guest lecturer now doing GI who knows his stuff inside and out; unfortunately, his lecture style could put a meth addict to sleep. As long as he submits his own test questions and they use them, it’ll be a good ride.

As for Halloween, it’s not really celebrated here. Thursday culminates Dia de los Muertos, which is a major holiday, combining both religious (95%+ Catholic here) and social/familial aspects of life. Last year, I lived across the street from school, so there were no kids hardly, but now I live in “suburbia” with kids in every house (my own too, shockingly). So how do the kids here celebrate? They get dressed up in costumes, go to peoples’ houses, and chant “Queremos Halloween! Queremos Halloween! Queremos Halloween!” (translation is the title of the post) Not happy with that, they sometimes will bang on the door or ring your doorbell incessantly, all while chanting over and over, house by house, group by group. This is what I need after staying up all night.

If you’re going to copy an American holiday, do it right, please. “Trick or Treat” doesn’t translate well, I know (most American kids wouldn’t be able to say what the “trick” has anything to do with anyway), so I move that people in all countries and languages just change it to “Please give me something for dressing up like this.”

And please don’t bang on the door.