Hi to all you people out there!

After staring at this white page for about ten minutes now, I've finally decided to start writing my introduction post and tell you some little things about myself.
I am Conny - 22 years old, studying medicine in Vienna, sports-addict, drama-queen (I prefer calling it hyper-hormoned) and trying to carpe diem as good as possible.

What is my story?

Like all of yours, my story is a sum-up of thousands of little ones. Moments. Decisions. Fails and mistakes. Thoughts and steps. But especially people. People, who make it so much more colourful and exciting every single day.
And that's where you come in! :)

I am fascinated by the idea of exchanging experiences, knowledge and thoughts with you guys ALL OVER THE WORLD. Despite all this crap happening around, I think this community is a prime example of how globalization and digitalization can unite and enrich all of us. I would love to be part of pushing these developments a step into the right direction.

What do I want to write about?

Of course, now you might ask yourself, what exactly it will be I am going to write about. To give you a short insight of my plannings and as I am a big fan of recapping and trying to improve myself and my life , I decided to share three of my New Year's resolutions for the upcoming 2018 with you:

• Enrolling in osteopathy
  Though I am fascinated and thankful what huge affords modern medicine has put up in the last few years, I believe that there is still much to improve and learn from the past concerning the consideration of a human in its entirety. Doctors often tend to see the illness and treat it how they have been thought, but forget see the whole body and mind behind.
  I wanna be different.
  A reason why I chose to study medicine, is that I love working with people and their stories. I wanna build a relationship to my patients, win their trust and find out together how to help them. Every human is different and needs a different treatment. Taking time to listen, finding out what it is and accompanying the patient on its way to health is an often unlearned or perishing feature and should be given way more attention than it does at the moment.
  I believe that osteopathy is one way of getting closer to this integrative way of medicine. I am going to start this 6 years lasting education beside my courses in the last week of January and would love to keep you updated and also recapitulate for myself what I will learn.

• Taking part at the Vienna City half-marathon
  As I shortly mentioned above, I am kind of addicted to sports. I even think of sports as a kind of medicine itself. Not only that I am each time stunned again when I hear about how only a bit of exercise can increase your health and lower the risk of thousands of diseases, also I believe that sports, preferred in the nature, is a balm for the soul and psyche. Talking of myself, I have to admit turning into an unbearable, nasty monster if I miss powering out myself for two days.
  Curious as I am, I have tried many different sports so far (training, climbing, horse riding, yoga, skiing, running, ballet..) and still I love to keep it diversified. What kept one of the most important ways to get my thoughts in order since I was a pubescent teenager is jogging. After a run in the woods nearly every problem seems to have a solution somehow.
  Taking part at a marathon is a new experience for me. I am excited about thrilling myself and trying some preparation methods. Therefor, I hope to get a few advises from the runners of you and maybe can exchange experiences!
  (Between, I am still looking for a teamsport but me being a catastrophe concerning every sport including a ball this is pretty difficult. Any tips from you?;))

• Exploring Australia and the Switzerland
  I know, I know, travel blogs are pretty common here and probably you all have read your eyes off of them. So I will keep this short. Still, for me it is the first time traveling somewhere alone and I am pretty excited about this. Also a bit afraid, I admit.
  Next year, the 5th year of medical courses, we finally are allowed to practise in hospitals. These so called "electives" can be absolved all over the world. Wanting to use this opportunity I decided to spent three months in Australia (one of them traveling), attach one month in New Zealand probably and spend the last one in Switzerland.
  To process what I experience for myself and of course let you be part of it, I intend to perpetuate what brings this adventure with it in my blog.

Well, I hope I could give you a small overview of myself and my plans and maybe there is something included that could wake your interest! At the end I just want to say that I am happy to be part of this adventure :)

But now enough about me! Tell me something about you! What are your New Year's resolutions for 2018?

All the best! Yours, Conny