Meeting Sally

So I finally met Sally, she was everything I imagined her to be. Skinny, I suspect she used to do yoga or was into healthy living at some point. He hair was shaven when I met her. I'm thankful for this, It makes the experience less personal. Like I let on earlier, I was anxious to meet Sally. It was more like a mix of anxious and nervous. I didn't know what my first words would be. I wasn't even sure how I would react to her presence.

The day before I was actually to meet her, I had a dream. In my dream, I was late for lab, and two of my friends were already there. They had gotten on with the work without me and I had to do my share even though it was late. In the dream I remembered being scared. I woke up and realized it was a dream. I dressed for school, wearing a combo of my least prized t-shirts. I didn't want anything ruining them.

As it turned out, that day was not going to be the big day. School was not exciting. We had a lecture on The Vertebral Column. That afternoon in lab, we spent the day looking at bones, inspecting them and all. Sally was there, but I didn't meet her(we actually did the lab over her), the time wasn't right.
The next day, I knew the time was right. We were supposed to be doing the back. I didn't plan this, but I came into the lab late. My labmates were already there, and with the help of the lab assistant, were trying to prop a block beneath Sally. I was just looking at them, I wasn't ready just yet.

They sha managed sha. Some of them were anxious, touching Sally and all that. After like a couple of mins, my teacher comes and after yarning some opat(he actually recited a poem when he made the first cut), makes the first incision.

This is where you need to disappear if you don't want to read this. Bimbylads, I promise I'll keep it sexy horror, lol!

So he makes one vertical incision down Sally's spine, and one from shoulder to shoulder, two more horizontal ones that divided the back into 6. He now shows us how to remove the skin.
keep in mind that this time, we were all acting normal. Some people were acting like they've been doing this all their lives.

We decided that we would each remove one flap of skin, since there was one to go round the 7 of us. Very soon it was my turn. Let me say that I'm a fast learner. If I watch someone do something once, I can make a very good imitation. That's how I learnt about computers, braiding hair... but I digress.

When It came to my turn, I took the scalpel and was just removing skin like "pshew! I do this all the time!", lol!. I commend myself for a job almost perfect. Infact, I commend my group, we were the bomb.

The cool part of the whole thing (I think only Naapali and ONB will understand) is that Sally was skinny! as in, she had almost zero fat. I was grateful for that cos I saw some of my friends that had fat ones, and all I can say was the sight wasn't pretty (still keeping it sexy!) at all. full stop.

So we had to separate the muscles of the back, all I could think of was Allahu wakbar (did I say that right? I'm not muslim), God is great. The silly part of me goes "It's just like it looks in the textbook!". On the real though, God is great. Everything had an order to it. We found most of the muscles we were supposed to find, now the big part was memorizing the names.

Another cool thing was that nobody in my class fainted or threw up. Maybe it was because we hadn't had lunch yet, but they saved us all the drama. Kudos c/o 2011!!! Although I suspect a lot of people were seriously fronting, you know, trying to be bigger boys and babes. One of my groupmates stylishly refused to dissect though, and another one went to move her car and wasn't back for almost an hour. I don't blame anybody, they both did in the end sha.

After a couple of hours, or better still when we got to the muscles, we were so engrossed in finding what we were looking for. I swear, it wasn't that bad. I won't try and act like I wasn't nervous or anxious about it, that's normal. I'm getting used to the smell of formaldehyde and I don't feel cold in the lab anymore, and it's just been about 48 hours.

I was first scared that I won't be able to eat meat again. Whosai! I came home and ate my shiken, the only thing though is now before I eat the meat, I start trying to identify the Latissimus dorsi and the rest(muscles). I'm having fun and that's the most important thing. I'll be doing this for months so you know my ass better be having fun cos its not ending any time soon.
Thanks Sally for being all that I imagined (and dreamt?) you would be! I'm looking forward to learning so much from you!!