Veterinary Medicine

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Veterinary Medicine Choosen From A Booklet

In Curaçao I chose from a booklet what I wanted to study and I was lucky to see the profession that belongs to the Vet study in action. I worked at a vet during the holidays, so I was lucky to be able to taste this profession. I especially enjoyed assisting with operations! No doubts for me and not necessary to look at other alternative studies. (UPDATE: Sept 2024: student debt €0 euro).

Veterinary Medicine Is A Draw Study

Because it is a draw study, I had to give up a second study. Quite complicated to find a second study that interested me. The tests showed that I was interested in everything but languages. I already knew the latter one from my grades and my great difficulty in learning words. It was always a fight with the words, but grammar and listening test usually went well.

Draw

Returning to the draw, I drew a very bad number, but luckily there were 11 minister places for Curaçao for all draw studies together that year. I was lucky, I was assigned 1 of those ministerial positions, which meant I could start the Veterinary study. Later when I gave up veterinary medicine, I felt guilty for a long time about using a minister place and not completing that study. Long time I thought someone else might have needed that place badly. But over the years I confirmed that Veterinary Medicine was not really the study for me in terms of pharmacology and biochemistry. Dealing with animals, ethics and genetics were the things I was good at, I passed those subjects at once. I even survived the internship at a pig farm fresh from Curaçao in the first few weeks of becomming a student in The Netherlands. I considered doing animal management in Groningen, but then found Groningen too far.

What If…

I still think what if … Could I have had a job abroad, for example, studying wild animals in the Amazon in South America or in a National park in Africa. Handling animals in the vet study went well, because I even got to go to England to lamb sheeps and was allowed to exam dogs and cats at animal shows.

Veeteelt Museum

I came to think again when I ran into the Livestock Museum (Veeteelt Museum) during the *4 Daagse van Nijmegen in Cuijk  in 2016. I walked in curiously and had a chat with two vets. I had been taught by one. They got my grades and asked me about the reason for stopping. They offered me a tour, my private college. And ‘effe’ came the feeling I will finish this study now …….

*I walked the Nijmegen 4Daagse Marches in 2009. And in 2016 I saw the walkers walking through Cuijk, after I hiked the Camino Portugues and before I moved to Arnhem. I have never been to the 4Daagse feesten and I will not visit the 4Daagse feesten in the future. Never been a party animal and never will be.

**I hiked the camino to think about what I wanted further from life and Databeet, not to party like some do on the Camino. I talked while hiking with my fellow hikers, but did not party with them or others. I am not a party animal and liked the quietness and calmness of the camino.