1. Pass final year of medical school
2. Gain super finger skills for piano
3. Attempt (for the 91283921832173921 time) to lose some damn fat
4. Be single buddies with cranky journalist and not date for the entire year (If applicable, subject may share new year eve's kiss)
So Paris Hilton faded and the Bieber came along with stupid pale vampire fad. 2010 has sped past so quickly that I'm only blogging about it in mid Jan 2011 (This has nothing to do with me being a lazy blogger AT.ALL.)
2010 started with a fantastic trip to New Zealand, an awesome year 3 rotation, and concluded with a visit to 5 different countries. The exam period was naturally blocked out (again) but somehow I have managed to scrape through the merciless and perilous cracks of the barrier.
New Zealand
So there's suppose to be a scrapbook, along with 92873291873 collected receipts, 18329138012 photos, 1x scrapbook folder (with no scrap paper), multiple scrap paper, 1x mount Tongariro 3 day hike/hut pass and 1x uncle Neil resturaunt menu autographed by uncle Neil and staff.
40km, 3 day worth of tramping and peeing into a drop hole in the ground, 5x blood blisters, a pair of new legs later, I am a new person. Somehow physically completing the track has given me enough closure and courage to move on from a terrible break up. New zealand was beautiful - landscapes, lakes, towns, sheeps, they even have the sterotypical dairy cows that are black and white (fascinating).People spoke with the weirdest accent(gas sounded like guest, ten sounded like tent and six sounds like sex.) It is home to movie film Lord of the rings, also population of sheep > people.
Without doubt I definitely had a fantastic time there and will definitely revisit - south island next time.
Third year came along with a dash of 7am handovers, 15 hours of 0 urine output, learning how to use a scalpel, perfect the art of retracting almost every retractable part of the human body during surgery, doing long cases and getting grilled by consultants, doing venepuncture on extremely frail little old ladies, delivery echo forms everyday like a good slave to the resident, get awesome feedback from the gastroenterology team, meet patients with liver span of 20cm, 6 weeks of general practice life, 6 weeks of rural lifestyle in outback Australia with only aboriginal patients, some pop health bits, administrative staff that talk and stalks, paperwork, paperwork, paperwork, portfolio, paperwork, paperwork, portfolio, paperwork annnnd paperwork. Suppressed memories of pre and post exam period.
The year ended with a blast after visiting China, Korea, Cambodia and Vietnam with a short affair in Thailand for new years eve countdown.
I should give a small breakdown of each of the places I've visited:
China - Beijing
Great food, great TV, cheap shopping and I spent a few hours learning how to ski.Although most of my time was complicated by insecurity and anxiety from exam results Beijing was the first place where I could officially announce the beginning of my holidays. Novels, movies, shopping and sleep. Such luxuary.
Korea - Seoul
So my family's pretty spontaneous. Like. We just decide to burst into action, pack our bags and go. I vaguely recall mum mentioning the possibility of war (war?!) in Korea but we decided to visit anyways. The best thing in Korea is everything is cute and pretty and shops are opened till 5am in the morning. Skinny girls all made up, perfect hair, cute designer handbag around their arms. They look exactly like they do in them soap operas.
Cambodia - Siem Reap
Dont even bother asking why I'm in Cambodia, Angkor Wat is one of the things that is on almost everyone's bucket list, and I ticked mine so I deserve to be fat. Angkor is magnificent, the only regret is not bringing a decent enough camera aka my newly acquired DSLR to capture the true beauty of it. Apart from landing into delirium due to 30 hours of travelling coupled with 90minutes of sleep, nothing could get between the awesomeness of Angkor Wat and us!
Vietnam is a different story all together. There are so much feelings and experiences I figured I'll start a new post for Vietnam altogether.
Much <3
