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Rambling Rose - Rosemary Phillimore

Rosemary  Phillimore July 2008 finds us in Kupang, West Timor working for Voluntary Services Overseas (VSO) www.vso.org.uk

I wasn't going to bother with a blog as this was to be a strictly dull working trip - well I was wrong - it has been anything but dull so I decided to revive tthe old travel blog from last year

Some folk really enjoy travel blogs and for others they are tedious monologue of other people's fun.
The beauty is that you can chose to read or ignore them.


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For those who are not familiar with blogs they are written from the bottom up so the earliest entries are at the bottom as you scroll down - can you tell I've been a teacher!!!

Bye for now

Rosie

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To look into the eyes of ‘Princess’ - a rescued and rehabilitated Orang Utan in her home environment was a spine tingling, magical experience. She is one of over 200 Orang Utans that have been returned to their natural habitat by rangers working at Camp Leakey deep in the rain forest of Borneo. Truth be told ‘Princess’ has not been fully rehabilitated - she had too much contact with humans in her early days of rehabilitation and now tends to hang around the camp. She was once part of an experiment to see how much language Orang Utans can master - [View Full Entry]

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Published: December 8th 2008 | 419 Views | [diary=351199]

2-Son of Princess
3- Tom Sulking
4- Feeding Platform where Tom should be sitting

By Rambling Rose
November 23rd 2008
Kupang Memories Asia » Indonesia » Timor
Today we are leaving Kupang to travel in Indonesia before returning home to the UK on Decemeber 12th. It is with mixed feelings we leave - so sad to say farewell to some great people, relieved to get away from the heat and noise, satisfied (even smug) about what we have achieved , amazed at what people can and will achieve when given the opportunities, intrigued by the resourcefullness of people when there are no 'health and safety regs' to inhibit enterprise. We will miss the smiles and endless greetings of 'Hello Mister', the friendly interchanges (assumed) , being stroked by [View Full Entry]

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Published: November 26th 2008 | 148 Views | [diary=347638]

Colin's team
Connect 4
Gifts

Bali - ear therapy
Bali - ear therapy
Luckily for me the cost of going to Bali for treatment is covered by VSO medical insurance. For others in Kupang going to Bali is not an option and when there are no facilities in Kupang then locals h... [more]
Its official - Colin is married to an old fossil The thing they removed from my ear was a deposit of calcium!!! (if this is the first time for you of reading this blog you need to track down the entries for the ear saga as this is a follow up report) The theory is that a chronic infection in the outer ear that went on for so long caused the body to lay down cells to surround the infected area but it misread the cell coding master sheet and lay down calcium cells instead of soft tissue - if left [View Full Entry]

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Published: November 20th 2008 | 108 Views | [diary=346217]

The entertainers
Line Dancing
Not in a line dancing

The saga of the Kupang ear. November blog For me this month has been dominated by an ongoing ear infection. For Colin it has been a very productive month working with the suppliers to install the new hospital computer system - all is looking good with the project at the moment. You may chose not to bother reading the rest of this self pitying, whining blog entry which is all about me and my ear The saga began 4 weeks ago when I went for a celebratory swim on the Friday afternoon of the final day of teaching my 5 week [View Full Entry]

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Published: November 16th 2008 | 137 Views | [diary=344243]

Camera Shots
left ear normal
Right ear with abscess

Improvised Training room
Improvised Training room
Used the medical committe room with some borrowed laptops to complete Training of Trainers Course.
3 weeks on from the fire and we are back on track. We have a new computer training room and managed to salvage 5 computers from the fire and have 3 others that have been donated by VSO in Bali. So 8 useful computers - some with burn holes in the cases but they work!!! Immediately after the fire we met with the hospital management who were really keen that we re-establish the training room. So that is what we have done. They still plan to buy the Hospital Computer System in November as the money that has been allocated and [View Full Entry]

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Published: November 15th 2008 | 75 Views | [diary=343880]

New training Room
laundery drying outside of training room
New training Room

Press Interviews
Press Interviews
Director of hospital is tall attarctive lady to teh right
Sunday 21st September… …….. had been a hot, sticky, lackluster day and we had hid away in our room most of the day. At 6 pm we went out to find somewhere to eat with not a lot of success as our favorite watering holes were shut - as we wandered the noisy broken street of Kupang concentrating in the dark on spotting the broken pavements in order to avoid falling into a storm drain Colin took a whack on his head from a low tree branch. It knocked him to the ground dazing him and causing him a scalp [View Full Entry]

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Published: November 14th 2008 | 83 Views | [diary=343861]

Patients breaking out
Admin block before
Admin block ablaze

4 weeks later…… Been here 4 weeks nearly and feeling quite settled - funny how things which were so strange to start with I now don’t notice. In my first week I was terrified of falling down a hole in the pavement into a storm drain -now I’m used to jumping holes, dodging scooters in the road and have abandoned the foreign concept of a safe pavement. Can’t say that about the rubbish strewn everywhere - Kupang is one massive fly tip zone. Folk keep their private patch clean but no one cleans up the public spaces and where locals once [View Full Entry]

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Published: November 13th 2008 | 146 Views | [diary=343869]

Compost goat
Goat with waste disposal
Choosing our fish

So here I am in Kupang, West Timor, Indonesia (arrived July 28th) - living in an en suite - no bedroom just an en suite. Can’t complain ‘cause I don’t speak the language. Actually it’s not so bad - it is one large tiled hospital room usually assigned as doctor’s quarters. In the room is the sink and ‘Mandi’ (sluice and toilet) and we have curtained off one end where our beautifully carved teak bed sits in contrast to the rest of our furniture. Not the subtle, muted tones of Laura Ashley here - we are more into lurid lime [View Full Entry]

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Published: November 12th 2008 | 113 Views | [diary=343843]

Keeping up appearances
Shower and wet room
House goat

High Five
High Five
Daily ritual of buying bananas
Blog 0 - July 2008 Our travels in 2008 have brought us to a noisy, busy seemingly chaotic town Kupang on the dry dusty island of West Timor at the eastern end of Indonesia. The nearest town you’ve probably heard of will be Darwin, Australia, approximately 1000 miles SE of us. Colin and I are here, in Indonesia with Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) to help install a hospital information system in the town’s public hospital. The project was initiated by the German Overseas Development agency (GTZ) and Colin worked with them last year for 6 month doing the systems analysis and [View Full Entry]

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Published: November 11th 2008 | 103 Views | [diary=343174]

Admin block
Village folk
Records 3

We are back in the UK We returned home from New Zealand via Vancouver. This part of the trip was a real joy as we were catching up with some old friends who live in and around the Vancouver area; college friends as well as people we met when we did our 6 month house swap in this area in 1990 and friends from Freeland who have a house in Kamloops near Sun Peaks ski resort. We are back in the UK now in our own house, we got back on 3rd March and we are here for the next few [View Full Entry]

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Published: March 5th 2008 | 95 Views | [diary=253135]




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