This is probably my last blog entry for my trip...I thought I'd update you on my final week in Belize! So I don't think any of us were all that willing to return to clinic after the great weekend in Caye Caulker, but once we got back, we got stuck into our final week of work. There were mobile clinics on Tuesday and Friday, and Hillside clinics on Wednesday and Friday as usual. We also went to talk to a traditional birth attendant in one of the villages on Wednesday which was very interesting. It has been really great to get [View Full Entry]

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Some photos from the trip to Caye Caulker and my last couple of weeks of clinic! [View Full Entry]

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Last week was busy once again with clinics - we went to some very rural places - in a couple of them we all had to see patients in one room with no examination table or anything, so that was quite an experience. I also diagnosed someone with malaria on Friday - my first 'proper' tropical disease! Aside from clinics, we've also been managing to have a pretty good time, with plenty of trips into town for meals, drinks and swimming. On Tuesday we went to a little restaurant owned by a rastafarian guy who cooks all his own food in [View Full Entry]

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Some more photos from Belize - of clinic things, and cave tubing and the jungle lodge at the weekend! xxx [View Full Entry]

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Time is actually flying by here - I've been so busy with clinic activities in thev week, and then busy taking trips on the weekend.. I'm having a great time though - very glad I decided to come here. So last week was a mixture of clinic at Hillside, observing at the government run clinics, and a mobile Hillside clinic to Barranco, a Garifuna village, which was a real highlight. It's so good to get to see and treat my own patients and I'm definitely getting more confident about it as time goes on - it's something that you just don't [View Full Entry]

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Here are some photos of Belize so far. I'm still having a great time - work at the clinic is really interesting and I'm still learning lots. This weekend we are off to a jungle lodge to go cave tubing (floating down a river through some caves on a big rubber ring!). I will write more soon. xxx [View Full Entry]

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I tried uploading some pictures, but it didn't work so you'll have to wait a bit longer for them sorry! I'm in Placencia at the moment, which is a beach resort about 2 and a half hours from Punta Gorda. It's very nice here - chilled out, lots of sand, palm trees and sunshine! We are staying two nights in the Seaspray hotel which we managed to get pretty cheaply. After arriving last night we went to the bar nearby for some dinner and a few rum and cokes and some dancing which was fun. Today we have been on a [View Full Entry]

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Sorry it's been so long since I last wrote..I don't have access to a computer at the clinic, so it's impossible to update this and write much text. I've just borrowed someone's laptop quickly to write this. Hopefully I can get better internet access when we go away this weekend, and I might be able to upload some pictures.. Anyway, I have settled in well at the clinic - time seems to be going very fast! There are 6 of us here - Stacey and Jason are doctors from the USA, and Andrea is a doctor from Canada, then there are [View Full Entry]

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Arrived in Belize yesterday. Flights were fine. The local flight was fun - a 10 seater, with one passenger in front with the pilot! And we took off and landed 4 times, so now I'm a pro! Accommodation seems great - we have our own little house, with bedrooms, kitchen, living area, utility room, and nice hot showers! Induction is tomorrow, so I'll get to see the clinic then and find out what I'll be doing, but it all looks promising! Only two others here so far - both doctors from the usa, so they know a bit more than me, [View Full Entry]

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So back to Lima for the final night!! We all went out for our last dinner together which involved lots of very emotional speeches, hugs, and everyone getting a bit tearful!! Oasis were playing in Lima last night, so us younger people decided to head over to the National Stadium with Virguit, and see if we could get some tickets. Unfortunately what we didn't realise was that when a concert in Peru says it starts at 9, it means that the main act comes on at 9, and not the support act which is what happens in the UK. Still, arriving [View Full Entry]

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