One hot day in Texas, I was walking home around the dusty baseball diamond from school with a couple of my friends. We arrived at where our flats where but on the sidewalk something caught our eye.
Red guts and blue feathers! It was a dead, rotting bird! Some flies were swarming around it and we were all sort of grossed out.
So I was what, like 5 at the time? I had never been a morbid kid (seriously!), but I was really fascinated by the dead bird. I had never seen guts and intestines and stuff like that before in my life and I was just so fascinated by it for some weird reason.
And now I'm planning to become a doctor...I guess our present is often shaped - directly or indirectly - by some of our earliest childhood memories and experiences.
I also had such an incredibly amazing time dissecting a fetal pig in Grade 11 as well as sheep eyes in Grade 12.
During a summer camp as a kid, we also examined owl pellets and looked at the little rat teeth and whatever the owls didn't digest.
For some weird reason, I took one home in my pocket...Mom wasn't so impressed! I don't think it's that I have a macabre obsession with body parts and stuff, but I just find anatomy and the body SO fascinating.
Can you tell that I'm excited for human anatomy in third or fourth year? :)
You took an owl pellet home in your pocket? Lol, I just had to laugh at that!
ReplyDeleteYou only do anatomy in 3rd or 4th year? I'm guessing that's still part of the pre-med degree, right?
You are also totally right, anatomy is AWESOME!
:-)
Yes I did! Who didn't?? Hehe...
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, we do...we have a very weird program at my university. We have to take so many weird courses and the order of everything is really messed up. But anatomy sounds so cool! Can't wait ;)