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Hello Again! Spouse of MSIII, Bus Home, & Residency prep
Hi Everyone,
I posted on IMSN a few years ago when medical school was still just a twinkle in my husband, Chris', eye. As always seems to be the case with life things got busy and I dropped away from IMSN. Now that he's an MSIII I've decided to check in, get some insight and hopefully make some new friends as we prepare for residency.
I'm a 25 year old teacher in Tampa, Florida. We have two adorable dogs, Winston and Willow, and this week we got 2 chickens! Tilly and Clementine are just a couple weeks old and are an ameracauna and bantam pullet, respectively. I teach pottery and metalsmithing at a local arts studio and science at a privately owned nature preserve. I also write for a magazine and love all of my jobs.
An interesting thing about us is that after Chris finished his second year of med school he took a year off to get a masters in public health. During that year we bought a used school bus and converted it into our home. We travel in our bus during the few weeks a year he has off and mostly spend our time in state parks with our dogs where we can enjoy being out in quiet nature with each other. The rest of the time the bus is parked in a friend's backyard on an RV pad. Yes, we have all the essentials including AC/Heat, a fridge, running water etc. Is anyone else partaking or interested in a "tiny home" life style?
We have a few more months before he starts applying to residencies, he's narrowed his interests down to Family Med, Peds, and Psych and has compiled a list of over 30 residencies he's considering. He's been pretty amazing and wants me to look at the locations to see if they're places we could be happy in for several years. So I'm wondering what kind of preparing other spouses have done during the end of 3rd year and start of 4th? So far I have an excel document with the locations and some things I would really like to have, major airport, pottery studio, university nearby, some arts/leisure activities etc. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts and getting to know everyone!
Kelly
I posted on IMSN a few years ago when medical school was still just a twinkle in my husband, Chris', eye. As always seems to be the case with life things got busy and I dropped away from IMSN. Now that he's an MSIII I've decided to check in, get some insight and hopefully make some new friends as we prepare for residency.
I'm a 25 year old teacher in Tampa, Florida. We have two adorable dogs, Winston and Willow, and this week we got 2 chickens! Tilly and Clementine are just a couple weeks old and are an ameracauna and bantam pullet, respectively. I teach pottery and metalsmithing at a local arts studio and science at a privately owned nature preserve. I also write for a magazine and love all of my jobs.
An interesting thing about us is that after Chris finished his second year of med school he took a year off to get a masters in public health. During that year we bought a used school bus and converted it into our home. We travel in our bus during the few weeks a year he has off and mostly spend our time in state parks with our dogs where we can enjoy being out in quiet nature with each other. The rest of the time the bus is parked in a friend's backyard on an RV pad. Yes, we have all the essentials including AC/Heat, a fridge, running water etc. Is anyone else partaking or interested in a "tiny home" life style?
We have a few more months before he starts applying to residencies, he's narrowed his interests down to Family Med, Peds, and Psych and has compiled a list of over 30 residencies he's considering. He's been pretty amazing and wants me to look at the locations to see if they're places we could be happy in for several years. So I'm wondering what kind of preparing other spouses have done during the end of 3rd year and start of 4th? So far I have an excel document with the locations and some things I would really like to have, major airport, pottery studio, university nearby, some arts/leisure activities etc. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts and getting to know everyone!
Kelly
Glad to have you back!!!!
I think tiny is about perspective. For some it's too small, for others it's Just Right. For me, it's having only what we need so we can do more of what we want. Seems to be working out, though if we go someplace in the cold white north we will probably have to leave the bus behind, or build a better/warmer one. 
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