High Five for Friday

Cue the choir, and the angels, or whoever wants to sing a hallelujah praise...

1. We finished second year of optometry school!!! It was literally the most challenging school year of my life (as you have already heard). It was such a relief on Thursday to walk out of our last final exam for the year. Thankfully, Gussie gathered up our class to finally get a group photo of the class of 2016.
And this group of girls I could not have made it through without. They keep me straight, in the right place at the right time, and answer all of my silly questions late at night before exams. They keep me laughing through the hard times and listen to all of my complaints. I am so thankful to have such wonderful friends!

2. To increase the nerd level of this post even further, I got an iPad this week for the single reason of taking notes for class and being able to upload notes from this school year for future quick reference. Many of my classmates use their iPads in class, and I came to realize how convenient and well designed this device is, and how much more organized it could help me to be. All of those binders of notes you see above can be on the iPad to scroll through and quickly search if needed. Plus I can access digital copies of my textbooks at my fingertips any time. Jesse says I've crossed to the dark side by owning an Apple product, but it already came in handy studying for finals, and I can tell it is a great investment for school!

(I just had to share this one. She's just too cute.)

3. This Wednesday our community group had a farewell cookout for one of our members. Our friend Ronda has been in search of a job for a couple of months, and finally received an answered prayer. However, God decided to move her to Eufaula, AL, and away from all of us. We were both excited for her and sad at the same time. I am so glad I got to know Ronda while she was here. She is a strong woman with a sweet spirit and is someone you can truly always count on. We will miss her dearly, but plan to visit her soon, so it was not a final farewell this week!

4. We had dinner with friends Hannah, Adam, Kelsey, and Addy on Thursday night after I finished my final exams. I had to get out of the house, so we had celebratory drinks and Mexican food at Little Donkey. Hannah and I are both in the medical-school related world, so finding time to catch up can be few and far between. We enjoyed our time with them and got to hear all about there wedding plans for this summer. I cannot wait!

5.  I finished second year of optometry school! Did I say that already?... Well it deserves two spots on the list because it felt like quite the accomplishment. Plus, considering all I did was study for finals this week, nothing else interesting happened.

Happy Weekend everyone!