On November 26th, 2015, several medical students from around the world celebrated Thanksgiving dinner in the Middle East. In Beer Sheva, Israel to to be exact. I am pointing this out because it is notable in many respects. First off, the very fact that a group of people who regularly spend upwards of eight hours a day together would want to spend their few off hours together is quite amazing. Secondly, in a little city, in one of the smallest countries in the Middle East, students from all over the world sat together and had a meal because there was a lot to be thankful for.
We had just taken our last microbiology quiz of the semester. We were a few days away from our very last class of our first semester of medical school. We had survived. We had somehow managed to move to a brand new country, learn a brand new language and start medical school, all in one fell swoop.
Together we ate delicious food and we made nerdy jokes about mycobacteria and we toasted to a circle of people who could one day be called “doctor”.
Happy Thanksgiving from the class of 2019!!!
Now on to finals.
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