"study week"?

Yesterday, I survived my first dash through the dartford tunnel. Having that much traffic crammed down from 18 lanes to 4 is not a good idea. but I made it anyway, safely to the south mimms services and my home for the next 5 days, the premiere travel inn. It's actually quite nice there, and Ive now found out that there are 3 other people from my course staying there too.
I've been looking forward to this study week for quite a while now, I really feel like i'm doing something to improve...something, it gives me something to do for the next 2 years anyway, which hopefully will lead me on to better things. I now have a brand new student card, with a really bad photo of me on it and access to the campus for the next 2 years. I love the RVC campus at Potters bar, it quiet and in the middle of nowhere so very few distractions. I am sitting in the same place I was 4 years ago when I was writing my dissertation. Now i'm writing a blog, watching a thunderstorm roll in, debating about going for a swim.
Today has been very much about introductions, who everyone is, what the course is about etc, the usual start to any course. Then this afternoon we had the traditional "teambuilding session". our task: build your ideal domestic animal, and we were presented with a blue peter style box full of egg boxes, newspaper, straws and yoghurt pots. I cannot remember that last time I had that much fun building something, and it looked like an animal at the end of it!! we had everything a vet nurse could want in an animal; no vocal cords, no claws, the biggest veins in the world which anyone could hit, and an anal cap to stop all those "accidents" where the faeces end up all over the operating table because the vet just had to really squeeze everything that hard. In all 6 amazing creatures were created this afternoon by the group, photos of which will follow.
After that was coffee and biscuits, a bit of discussion about critical thinking, then home. whio knows, tomorrow I might even do some studying....