so i went to the LA county medical association(LACMA) welcome dinner for 1st year med students.....and so this is an email i wrote kyle telling him about my night:
so the drive there was ok...just some traffic but we weren't late. donnell, katie and shefali rode with me and that was fun...good conversation. we got kinda lost in LA but we found our way. we got there and signed in...it was a nice hotel. there were ucla and usc ppl there...and lethal weapon girl was there! i meant to say hi and introduce myself but by the time i had thought of it...i couldn't find her anymore. hehe donnell said he used to love her when he was younger. i think western had the biggest turnout. probably the only thing that sucked about tonight was that Western wasn't even acknowledged. when the presidents of LACMA chapters for each school went up there, the western one didn't go up....then when our MSI representative went to introduce someone he didn't say his name or where he was from...so nobody knew we were even there. so i was mad about that. OH and then the keynote speaker was makikng his speech and some emergency alarm went off...then some guy on the PA was saying that there was an emergency situation on the 11th and 12th floors and that they needed to evacuate...which was dumb b/c we were on the 2nd floor. so the dinner ended kind of early. but the COOL part was i got free gifts! i got a stedmans medical dictionary....i actually wasn't going to get one b/c they ran out...but i asked one of my classmates if he had one already like at home and if i could have his...and he gave it to me. woohoo. but that's not all!! i got a vacuumized sterling silver flask that holds cold and hot stuff. it's SO cool! i dunno when i'll use it but it's awesome. and also i told you about how my class/school is really cool, like we're a family and it makes me feel good. like all the other schools seemed distant to each other or something. i'm glad i went to western.
then we decided to go to westwood to diddy riese...b/c we didn't want to go to the bar with our classmates...and that was cool. westwood has a cool atmosphere. and we got some cookies.

it was a great night. :)

listening to my body saying it's time for bed because u've got an 8am class!