Well, My first week has come to an end in the wonderful country of India. I am currently in Virudhunagar, 40 minutes south of Madurai on a medical placement in Lysander Hospital. In the first week here I was discovered a lot about myself and where I see myself in a few years. I left Perth on the 27th June, where the flight was delayed. I arrived in Singapore and was delayed and after arriving in Chennai, you guessed it, I was delayed. I finally reached Madurai 20 hours after I left Perth. What an awesome start. The first thing you notice about Madurai is how modern the airport is while after only driving maybe a kilometre from the airport the poverty begins. You pass the famous engineering college where everybody is smilling on their way ... read more

Vannakam! So 2 weeks have gone by in a flash since i last wrote a blog. Apologies, between having my fingers in an infected foot and watching babies being born I have not had the time to come online. They past two weeks have been incredible at my placement. I have learnt an incredible amount of information from the 3 doctors who run the hospital. I have seen people on the brink of death and babies coming out into the world for their first breath. The hospital is located in a tiny town called Virudhunagar. It is not a tourist town, in fact I think there has only been approximately 200 non-indians that have been here on the placement. It great, a place that has not become westernised, a place where everybody will stop and try ... read more