As of Monday, Matthew is now considered a 4th year medical student. Woohoo! I am so proud of him and all the hard work he has done to get here. The end is in sight! He will be graduating in exactly one year from now. He has just started a month long rotation at a hospital in Phoenix and it has already been pretty intense with long hours. However this is the only AZ rotation for this whole next year. Months ago, we applied for all of our 4th year rotations and the ones we got accepted to are scattered across the nation. This means we are sadly moving! We have loved our time here in AZ, the many friendship we have made, and watching our kids grow up here. I am not ready to leave it all behind! But my choices are to either stay here by myself for the entire next year or go move-in with family.
At the end of the month I will be moving to Utah to live with Matthew's parents and Matthew will go to the east coast to start his abroad rotations. It's going to be a rough summer with Matthew being away for the first 3 months straight. He will be in Rhode Island, Virginia and Indiana. Then he will join us for a few months in Utah. Then more craziness and travel, etc... I am very excited though to be spending a lot of time with family this coming year. Sometimes I get overwhelmed at the thought of being basically homeless and traveling this whole next year but then sometimes I feel like this will be a fun adventure. Medical schools definitely don't take into account family life when they set up rotation schedules! Our days have been spent purging, packing and trying to do as many fun AZ things as we can.
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Ah Shan, that is both sad and exciting! Exciting that Matthew is getting so close to being done, sad that you guys will be apart but it will be much better to be with family than by yourself. I hope you guys have fun in Utah and that the kids make the transition okay. It can be hard at times living with in-laws, we lived with Evan's family for a year.
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