ok so looking at this blog i have been pretty poor at keeping up-to-date, so when i get travelling again in just over a week's time i think i'll blog more regularly.
ok so nearly finished up at lal hospital...one week left!to be honest this couldn't come quick enough as i'm getting more than a little bored. despite being surrounded by a lot of girls training to be nurses who are my age everything is lost in translation. they do read and write english but don't speak it...and anything they do understand is lost when i speak as it's nonsense to them in my Irish accent....very infuriating.sometimes i think they understand more english than they let on,.
To pass the time i have been keeping myself busy with shopping; unfortunately kerala doesn't have topshop so i've had to make do with other alternatives...i've bought sarees, scarves, bangles, salwaar,kurtas, i've even been a regular visitor to the tailor for handmde items...i have no idea how i'm going to get it home but that's another matter. if anyone wants a saree just let me know they are cheap here...like 2 pounds cheap! another thing i discovered was 'specs' are cheap...i just got frames and lenses for the costly sum of 1000 rupees...equivalent to about 12 pounds....I realise now i most definitely shouldn't have gone to specsavers as it's about 10 times the price for the same 'designer'brands!
also to pass the time i've become a lady of leisure, often visiting the beauty parlous for facials and pedicures etc...it all went a bit overboard and i got a bit carried away during one such session coming away with a red streak in my hair that seemed to scream mid-life crisis...after this incident i realised i needed to get out of the 7 mile radius i'd been living in for the past 3 weeks....so this weekend i'm off to the beach at varkala....fingers crossed the rain holds out!it'll be my first encounter on the indian train system and i'm slightly worried...i'll let you know how it goes.
ok...so i suppose i should mention the medicine as that is the primary reason for me being here. i have actually noticed that despite dr lazar's(aka hitler's) continuous bark of questions i have actually learnt a thing or two and actually he's not so bad....it has taken 3 weeks for the fear to subside. ok i've gotta go pick up my specs and then have a facial....talk soon. x
ok so nearly finished up at lal hospital...one week left!to be honest this couldn't come quick enough as i'm getting more than a little bored. despite being surrounded by a lot of girls training to be nurses who are my age everything is lost in translation. they do read and write english but don't speak it...and anything they do understand is lost when i speak as it's nonsense to them in my Irish accent....very infuriating.sometimes i think they understand more english than they let on,.
To pass the time i have been keeping myself busy with shopping; unfortunately kerala doesn't have topshop so i've had to make do with other alternatives...i've bought sarees, scarves, bangles, salwaar,kurtas, i've even been a regular visitor to the tailor for handmde items...i have no idea how i'm going to get it home but that's another matter. if anyone wants a saree just let me know they are cheap here...like 2 pounds cheap! another thing i discovered was 'specs' are cheap...i just got frames and lenses for the costly sum of 1000 rupees...equivalent to about 12 pounds....I realise now i most definitely shouldn't have gone to specsavers as it's about 10 times the price for the same 'designer'brands!
also to pass the time i've become a lady of leisure, often visiting the beauty parlous for facials and pedicures etc...it all went a bit overboard and i got a bit carried away during one such session coming away with a red streak in my hair that seemed to scream mid-life crisis...after this incident i realised i needed to get out of the 7 mile radius i'd been living in for the past 3 weeks....so this weekend i'm off to the beach at varkala....fingers crossed the rain holds out!it'll be my first encounter on the indian train system and i'm slightly worried...i'll let you know how it goes.
ok...so i suppose i should mention the medicine as that is the primary reason for me being here. i have actually noticed that despite dr lazar's(aka hitler's) continuous bark of questions i have actually learnt a thing or two and actually he's not so bad....it has taken 3 weeks for the fear to subside. ok i've gotta go pick up my specs and then have a facial....talk soon. x
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