Sunday, August 20, 2006

White Coat Ceremony

Won't Scott make the most handsome doctor? This is after his white coat ceremony yesterday. They have a ceremony to give the new students their white coat and pin them as they begin their journey in the medical world. IWe have been going to orientation events and yesterday was the ceremony. There were a few speakers and they have the students recite an oath. Each student goes on stage and gets coated and pinned. The girls did great through it all. They were little angels!
It is amazing because there are about 170 students in Scott's class and 30 of them are LDS! (This doesn't include the LDS families from the other classes) Utah is the state with the most students, and BYU the school with the most (16 I think). There are some from BYU Idaho, the Uof U, Utah State, Weber State. Our ward feels like a Provo ward a little bit with so many new young families. It will be great! We have met so many wonderful people already, and have gotten together with new friends a couple of times. Scott will do great in his classes, and is excited to get going. It will be an adventure, but a good one! We are happy about the opportunities here in Kirksville. We love our condo, and everyone we have met have been so sweet to us. Everyone has already heard about us coming with brand new twins, and it is amazing how many people have been offering to help with anything we need! We feel so blessed to be here and getting settled in to life at Med school. Posted by Picasa

1 comment:

Heidi said...

That is so crazy about all the LDS people. We have a great ward with lots of young marrieds, but none of them are in med school. And in Ben's class there are only 3 other LDS students. Fun that you guys will have that amazing support system going while you are in the Midwest. Actually, anywhere any of us ever move having a ward is such a great blessing to become our temporary families. The church is so wonderful