Another week has started and it is almost weekend already..where does all the time go?
On Monday we all spent the day at Casualty since our teacher was going to come to the hospital in the morning. We showed her around at all the ward we haven been these weeks at Katutura State Hospital. Due to the "guided" tour it was a short day at the hospital. The teacher came with us when we went back to the house and later on the last teacher arrived as well. A relaxing afternoon at home before we went out for dinner at Joe´s Beerhouse, the whole group and the teachers. I ate zebra, tasty!
When we got the check one of the teachers paid for all of us... what a nice gesture of her :-)
Yesterday some of us girls decided to take the day of to have some girl time and do what we girls love: shopping. We went to a brand new mall that have opened a few days earlier. Some of the stores weren´t opened yet and none of the restaurants had opened but that didn´t stop us from what we came there for...shopping. Needless to say but I topped my shopping here, 7 shopping bags in total...and got what I looked for: tanktops, shorts, shirts, scarves, accessories and sunscreen :-) In the evening 7 of us girls went out for dinner at a restaurant called NICE where most of the girls had sushi, but I had kingklip (not sure what fish that is, but it was good)
Today 2 of us went to Operating Theatre in order to see some neurosurgeries. We got to attend 2 operations on a 2 month old baby with hydrocephalus and a 2 year old with a chronic subdural hematoma before heading home. The plan was to lay out in the sun in the afternoon but I fell asleep for almost 3 hours on my bed wearing my bikini...days are going by without me getting done what I had planned...lol
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Sunday, October 26, 2014
and once again I have been absent..but I am back now, to stay...lol
My intention was really to write almost every day while here in Namibia but with a schoolpaper to write on 2000 words and a reflection I got a little busy and "forgot" about the writing.
Since the bedroom (there is 4 of us in the bedroom) is a quiet zone it is hard to have to time to write before the lights go out around 9pm on weekdays since we get up at 6am most days.
But anyway....since the last time I wrote I have been to Swakopmund for a weekend getaway where the guy that watches the house and looks after us took us there for a weekend. We got to stay in his family´s vacationhome. While we were there I got to skydive for the 2nd time and this time I jumped from a higher altitude, 10 000 feet and what a rush it was. It was the first time for all the other students and they all loved it and some of them are saying they wanna do it again when we go to Cape Town in beginning of December. I also got to drive a quadbike in the desert, climbed a sanddune and got to watch pelicans in Walwis bay.
I am more than halfway through my practical training at the hospital and have seen and experienced a lot while being there. We´re mostly well received but sometimes there are languagebarriers when we either don´t understand or hear what nurses are saying or that some patients only speaks Afrikaans.
I have now been 1 week at Casualty, 1 Weeks at Maternity where I got to watch several births and attend C-sections, 2 weeks at Acute Care (48 % burn patient, motor vehicle accident victim, Lupus, epileptic patient, preeclampsia, jaundince, renal failure, subcutaneous emphysema +++) and 1 week at Operation Theatre with removal of hemorrhoids, breast augementations, cysts, laparoscopy, removal of a uterus and more) We also did the overnight shift this weekend for payday where we got to see cases like stabbing, overdose, car accidents, sick babies and more. So from now on we get to choose what wards we wanna spend our remaining weeks at. Both of our teachers are coming this week so they will visit us at the hospital, we will invite to the house and we will go out to dinner with them.
Overall, most of the weekdays go by with a full day at the hospital, laying by the pool, reading for the upcoming exam, a few trip to the city center for cafes or shopping or cooking dinners together. We have also had a few movienights and a share of parties here at the house. It was OktoberFest this weekend that all the other Norwegian students went to but I decided to stay at house all by myself to enjoy some alone time by the pool listening to music on my ipod. Usually I like to have people around but it does get too intense at times always having 10 people or more around you and sharing room with 3 other students....so the few moments when I am alone are very precious.
Since the bedroom (there is 4 of us in the bedroom) is a quiet zone it is hard to have to time to write before the lights go out around 9pm on weekdays since we get up at 6am most days.
But anyway....since the last time I wrote I have been to Swakopmund for a weekend getaway where the guy that watches the house and looks after us took us there for a weekend. We got to stay in his family´s vacationhome. While we were there I got to skydive for the 2nd time and this time I jumped from a higher altitude, 10 000 feet and what a rush it was. It was the first time for all the other students and they all loved it and some of them are saying they wanna do it again when we go to Cape Town in beginning of December. I also got to drive a quadbike in the desert, climbed a sanddune and got to watch pelicans in Walwis bay.
I am more than halfway through my practical training at the hospital and have seen and experienced a lot while being there. We´re mostly well received but sometimes there are languagebarriers when we either don´t understand or hear what nurses are saying or that some patients only speaks Afrikaans.
I have now been 1 week at Casualty, 1 Weeks at Maternity where I got to watch several births and attend C-sections, 2 weeks at Acute Care (48 % burn patient, motor vehicle accident victim, Lupus, epileptic patient, preeclampsia, jaundince, renal failure, subcutaneous emphysema +++) and 1 week at Operation Theatre with removal of hemorrhoids, breast augementations, cysts, laparoscopy, removal of a uterus and more) We also did the overnight shift this weekend for payday where we got to see cases like stabbing, overdose, car accidents, sick babies and more. So from now on we get to choose what wards we wanna spend our remaining weeks at. Both of our teachers are coming this week so they will visit us at the hospital, we will invite to the house and we will go out to dinner with them.
Overall, most of the weekdays go by with a full day at the hospital, laying by the pool, reading for the upcoming exam, a few trip to the city center for cafes or shopping or cooking dinners together. We have also had a few movienights and a share of parties here at the house. It was OktoberFest this weekend that all the other Norwegian students went to but I decided to stay at house all by myself to enjoy some alone time by the pool listening to music on my ipod. Usually I like to have people around but it does get too intense at times always having 10 people or more around you and sharing room with 3 other students....so the few moments when I am alone are very precious.
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