The resturant sells chicken that is flame grilled and marinated in peri-peri spicy sauce. You can get medium, hot, or extra extra hot. I think I would have gotten the extra hot were it not for Divya and Kasuni who warned me that it was really really spicy. I remembered trying some of Hiral's home made pizza that was too spicy for me and decided to get the medium.
This really was good chicken. I liked that is was flamed grilled and not fried since a lot of fried food upsets my stomach. The quality of the chicken wings was really good too. There wasn't a lot of fat or rubbery skin and I could easily eat the chicken right down to the bone. The outside was crips, spicy and full of barbeque flavor! They also sell chicken liver!
Diyvia and Kasuni
Rosie and I
Diyvia is a first year medical student who also wants to go into pediatrics. Kasuni wants to be an oral pathologist and is in a 1 year masters program. I asked Divya about medical school tuition which she said is 3,950 pounds and about 3500 pounds for living expenses (about $16,000 a year). She couldn't believe it when I told her our last financial aid budgent for 1 year was $80K. Queen Mary University also offers scholarships off free tuition to the students who are in the top 10 of their class. She explain that students from Cambridge and Oxford come to Queen Mary for thier clinical rotation since the expose is really sparse near these universities. She also told me about "vajazzle" a trend here where women put on glitter studs on their vagina! How gross! Theres also one form men called pajazzle and guess where those go. She also wants me to try banoffee (combination of banana and toffee) a desert she said was really good. She asked about what music is popular in the states right now.
The girls told me that this is the first time they've gone out together! Usually they hang out in the dorms. And they were so happy they met me and felt like they've known me for a really long time even though its only been a little over a week! I told them how mutual the feeling is.
Nando is right by St. Paul's Catherdral. After dinner, we took the elevator up to the 6th floor of a building complex. There's an amazing rooftop bar and a lounge that you are free to walk around. The dome of St. Paul's Cathedral is right in front! Its illuminated at night. You can walk down the rooftop lounge and the dome is so large right in front of you that you feel you can reach out and touch it! I'd really like to come back in the day time to take better pictures. There is also a view of the London eye and the London suppository, lol, as I heard its similar structure called in Barcelona. We just had a great time on the roof time, loving the view and taking pictures. It was the first time Divya and Rosie had been up there.
You can easily get "lost" in the magic of the streets around St. Pauls. Walking around, I felt like Gil, the novelist, in the movie Midnight in Paris, who imagines himself to be in Paris during the 1920s. Its like you are walking down streets and you know its 2012, but the things that look so old are so well preserved that you're mind easily slips away to the 1600s. I felt like at any moment I could see a horse with a suited gentleman on top trottling down the street.
We walked through Smithsfield market which is a meat market that is most active in the early hours of the morning. My friends told me that if you come really early you can see cow and pigs hanging. I'll try it one morning! It was also the site where William Wallace, one of the great Scottish heros in the Scottish War of Independece, also depected by Mel Gibson in Braveheart, was executed by the British. Its also right by the night club Fabric which Divya told me was rated the NUMBER ONE CLUB IN THE WORLD! Wow! I hope I can check it out one night!
Kasuni and I in Smithfield Market
I also had a great morning in clinic today as well. Today was peds derm clinic. Today I told the consultant that I was in my last year of medical school after which she asked if I'd like to clock in my own patients. I told her I'd love to. But as it happened only one patient was there at a time so I ended up seeing all of her patients with her. She was great teaching consultant because when we examined the child she asked me to descibe the affected skin and tell her what I thought it was. The first case was of tinea capitis. I also saw eczema, psoriasis, vitiligo, alopecia areata and pityriasis rubra pilaris type IV.I decided not to go to the peds surgery clinic in the afternoon and instead went back to Baker's Street to get a novel at Oxfam. On my walk today, I passed by the site where Charles Dickens lived when he wrote 3 of his novels, and a manor house used by Henry the VIII and Elizabeth the I. I found the book Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder which Ana my roommate raved about and picked it up along with Memoirs of a Midget by Walter de la Mare because its from 1932. The cover looks like it could be a collectable and I have small hopes that one day it will be worth more than the 2 pounds I paid for it. I also got a Frodors guide to London, which inspired me to take a day trip to Oxford tomorrow.
One of the medical students told me today that if I wanted I could spend a day with the major trauma section of the hospital and see the cases that come in via helipad. I feel a bit reluctant to do say because now I'm comfortable with the people in the peds department and it will be hard to branch out and try something new. But I know I'll regret it if I don't so I really hope one afternoon next week I give it a try. I'm also looking forward to metabolic and oncology clinic on Monday.
I was a little happier than I normally am while seeing patients in derm clinic today and I think its becasue in general all the derm patients are healthy. I guess its has taken a small toll on me seeing so many kids who are unwell.
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