Rayne - Day 1

Not so bad, except that I'm fairly certain I'm going to get myself lost on all of these tiny back roads, all of which seem to be surrounded by fields of some sort of crop that I can't identify. I am trying very hard to sort of contain the elitist-New-York-Jew attitude that I'm told I sometimes project... although when one guy heard I went to Columbia he asked why I didn't go to Harvard instead. Obviously that needed some sort of response, so it cannot be held against me. The apartment that I'm staying in is in Lafayette, which is about 30 minutes away from Rayne. When I was in Dr. Dawson's office, one of the nurses said that I would feel comfortable in Lafayette because its more city-like. Ha. The closest comparison that I can come up with is Old Country Road, only with fewer strip malls and more fields.

I did get invited to ride in a Frog Festival parade float next weekend.

The Adventure Begins

Surgery is over, and the family medicine rotation begins. My family medicine preceptor works in Rayne, LA. Rayne is about 2 and a half hours outside of New Orleans, near Lafayette. The population is slightly less than 9000. Rayne's claim to fame is that it is the frog capital of the world. In our family med orientation, one of the department faculty had us go around the room and introduce ourselves - where we were from, where we went to college, which preceptor we were assigned to. We got to my turn, and I said I was from New York, went to Columbia, etc, etc, and then that I was going to Rayne. Dr. Wiseman paused, sort of chuckled to herself, and told me that I would have a great time. I'm expecting some degree of culture shock. Its going to be an interesting six weeks.