March 30, 2007 : I Have Survived the Adversities
© 安岡喜晴 (JoyShine)
Finally, I have survived the days of adversity.
Yesterday I heard the news that I passed the exam and will start my residency here.
I was beside myself when I heard the news from my parents.
And today, successful applicants have to gather at the hospital, while unsuccessful applicants have to leave here.
I finally got through those hard days...this feeling is really coming home to me.
It's quiet now, and this silence seems to be the aftermath of the hard battles that have just passed.
Now I can relax, probably a little for a while, and that might be a brief relief just before another battle comes.
I really appreciate my hard work that started 3 months before the national exam.
I was labeled as a bad boy in school, and most people around me probably never thought that I could do this miracle in such a short period of time,
except for a few people who know that I'm actually strong.
It's like running away from Kansai Medical University, which is a symbolic place for me of those days of adversity,
the place where I had to pay my tuition by computer programming while participating in school activities in order to graduate.