The Face

We did the facial muscles last Friday, they were ridiculously difficult, it's tough to separate one group from another except for the really obvious ones like the nasalis and orbicularii (sp?) which are easy because they're round. everything else is a mishmash of strands of muscle running all over the place. It's crazy to think that you've got all these muscles in your face yet most of them serve no purpose other than communication via facial expression. Our senses of smell and hearing are so poor that it's pretty much pointless having muscles to manipulate the nose or ears yet there they are. Today we did the pectoral girdle which isn't quite so bad and the brain, which is easy for me seeing as how I've done it before (even though I've never seen an actual brain specimen before in psyc). Our lecturer for the CNS wasn't too great though. She a German lady who learned it all in German and sometimes struggles to be understood, you can actually tell she's busy translating some of the things she wants to point out from German to English.

Our practicals are a bit of a worry, we only have two desperately overworked tutors for a class of about 30-40. It just isn't enough for everyone's questions to be answered let alone demonstrations of things we need to know. It's a little annoying but not unbearable.

I have yet another contact tomorrow for speech pathology, 5 hours.