The Queen of Kuusamo

Photo: Reuters.com

'A great form, a great attitude, a great start of a new season,' a reporter on Eurosport commented on your exceptional victory.

For a person like you, everything is reachable - you make it that way.

After months of unimaginable hard work you came to the point when the only option is to smile. And the world will smile with you, my friend.

Miss you.

Outside...

... it's snowing! This year's first snow. I love it. While waiting for the rest of my today's surgical practicals I was walking around without my umbrella opened, though I have it with me, wanted to feel snowflakes falling on my nose, slowly melting and leaving a wet traces I was wiping off with my coloured gloves. Walked around with my head tilted back, catching snowflakes with my tongue, being like a big child. Eva was laughing at me, but I love it. I love it a lot. This year's first snow!

From general practice to surgery - with a red packet

This week I used as a transformation period.

Completed my GP practicals and done the exam, had the last saturday on duty with my mentor, enjoyed at snowflakes falling down the clear blue sky, discovered that the purple paper found in my wallet is real and started the search for my air ticket, felt amazing happiness for someones great 10, checked the bus departure timetable for Belgrade for several times and auch! - needed to 'kill' one of my teeth....

And I've got an envelope: big, red one, with Suomi Finland written on it and something more: 'Can't belive it, right? Maybe they have a better taste...' With one small sun drawn at the side. This packet made my day. I knew immediately who sent it. But wasn't sure what's inside. While opening I started to laugh. There were 2 packs of dried apricots, a fruit she loves to buy me here at home, a fruit I actually don't like but have to eat it to get a bigger amount of potassium. It calmes down my extrasystoles I have from time to time. Though she's away for 4 weeks now, I have my two new packs... Thank you. You are amazing, my friend. Just amazing! And yes, they have a better taste. :)

For the end I rode a kite today after a long long time, feeling this great joy of holding the wind in my hands, of maneuvering with strings and making fast, playful loops.

Tomorrow I'm starting my surgical practicals. Think after days in an operating room I'll be almost dreaming of holding something else then hooks and peans in my hands... The wind will do the best.

I feel like a thief :)

A photography stolen from my sister (sorry, sissy!). I'm astound by nature's creations over and over again: by it's elegance, uniqueness and warmth...Go out, open your eyes, smell the wind, run through the blanket of fallen leaves in the nearest forest. Catch the spirit of an amazing autumn.

And the winner is...

Zagreb showed up like a perfect place, like an open nest for young birds who want to be like seagulls on the coast of medicine. We were there, feeling safe and free to fly.

It was great, like the most of similar 'reunions' are. And there was a lot of new, interesting people. A lot of scientists. :)

Organising comittee did their best again. Thank you for everything.

There were days turning in to wild nights, amazing Sax with dancing and some salt, lemons and tequilas, umbrellas all the time, blue trams anytime and anywhere, Subiceva 9, coffee brakes, Montenegro girls with their crazy ideas and tempo, the greatest happiness brought by Kanito, endless and answerless questions of the Czech girl from Prague, sooo many applauds to speakers, a loooooot of chestnut cream, taking photos non-stop, there were Matej, Jelena and a group of fantastic colleagues from all over. Joy, joy, joy...

And there was someone else. Someone who simply shined at the presentation, while we were completely amazed by her work. Someone really passionate about medicine and children. Someone, whom is really much to tell about. After almost two years of working on it, she got the best ZIMS 08 scientific work award at the end. And ESS 2009 participation goes to the rightest person I could imagine.

Congratulations, Nina.