acting

It's funny. In nursing school, we get to practice some of our skills in lab on each other. We've given each other shots, looked in each other's noses, and done breast exams on each other. Yesterday it was time to practice musculoskeletal exams. I was partnered with one of the guys in my class. Previous to this, I've always been partnered with a girl, though I don't have an issue with working with the guys. If the exam were being performed in a regular clinic visit or hospital setting, the person being examined would only have an exam gown on. For our purposes, our instructor has us wear bike shorts and the girls, a sports bra. So yesterday it was my partner's turn to examine me and I took the exam gown top down so he could listen to my heart and examine my shoulders. It was funny because I could tell he was uncomfortable. He asked me where my apical heart beat normally is so that he wouldn't have to feel around on my boob to find it. I pointed to it and continued a conversation with him to take his mind off the awkwardness. Poor guy. I wasn't uncomfortable. Even though he's not my doctor in a real exam- he's a classmate I'll have to keep seeing- I didn't think anything of being in front of him in a sports bra and shorts. It's class. But he was having a hard time.

I talked to my brother the other day and he was talking about how he had to make out with this girl in his acting class. I do know what it's like to be kissed by someone I wasn't wanting to be kissed by, but I've never had to make out with someone who I'm not in a relationship with. I suppose it's the same kind of thing as yesterday in lab. You know that it's not real-life, there's a reason behind the somewhat awkward interaction, and you just go with it. You act as though you would in real life but you zone out in the sense that it's not.