Leaving on several jet planes

How can I express my happiness...
With Jacaranda leaves~!
Well here I am, my last evening in Brisbane. This year has gone by pretty damn quickly, let me tell you.
I finished my exams and there's no emoticon to express my pure crystal glee at being done with studying. Ended up clocking in 27 days in a row in the same room, averaging at least 5 hrs a day of studying. Easily I studied more in the last 3 weeks than the last 23 years up until now. What a mess. I think the tests went well but thankfully I won't find out for a while. For those of you curious what our tests are like, it's like this: on Sunday, we had a practical test at the hospital, with 5 stations: 1 ethics/communication, 2 history-taking, 1 life support, and 1 physical examination. I was pumped!
-Ethis station: woman is worried about her misbehavin' daughter who's been coming to see me and wants me to tell her what's going on. Boom, confidence! Can't say nothin, bittie.
-History: woman with worsening breath on exertion, smoker. Bam, asthma, get out of here. Next guy with weakness in his arm? Stroke, next!
-Life support: Oh Resucsi-annie, I own you
-Physical exam: the fucking elbow? We never did this one in our clinical coaching sessions! I made up some stuff, picked out key anatomy, and skeezed out of there, gratefully seeing everyone else was as pissed with the choice.
The written tests were two days, consisting of multiple choice, short answer, and problem (story) things, plus 1 ethics essay.
Since the tests have finished, I've been packing and partyin. Yesterday a bunch of us hung out by the river and had some beers and food and played soccer and chilled and then went out for dinner. Day before hung out and watched a storm (in Brisbane?!) and listened to music. Yesterday it also stormed for a bit, yet was funny. Beautiful. Tried to capture it but didn't quite work...
As of now, I'm moved out, sitting and sweating in Ben's apartment. I leave tomorrow morning on a typically-michael horrible stream of flights:
Sun 8:25 am flight to Sydney... 11 hr lay over
Sun 9:30 pm flight to Bangkok - 23.5 hr lay over
Tues 10 am flight to Kathmandu - 2 day lay over until I fly to Pokhara for my hospital elective.
I don't remember if I'd mentioned this before on here, so I'll repeat it: I'm spending 4 weeks in a hospital in Nepal on an elective program where we shadow doctors and get basic actual skills with real people. And since Nepal is a blessedly poor country, we might actually get to do stuff. The most annoying thing about those flights is not that I'm on them, it's that I'm bringing a decent-sized box of medical supplies to donate to the hospital. And each leg of the flight was booked separately and must be checked into separately and thus I must carry that damn box with me all the time. Oh well, these are the things I do for the good of mankind.
I'll let you know when I get there,
love,
michael