Pethidine Pleasure

This blog posting thing really isn't going too well is it? I think I'll forget about catching up on the Hawaii and Canada bits for now - anyways, while most of it is interesting to me, reading about it will probably put you into a metabolic coma. I'll start posting about my activities in Melbourne and if I have time, I'll insert bits about my Canada trip when I have my episodes of longing to return to the mountains around Vancouver....

I haven't done all that much with respect to sightseeing in Melbourne yet. I've been here a week and I still feel like I'm getting over the jetlag. The 24hrs+ travel from Vancouver to here was quite exhausting. Perhaps I've just been running on adrenaline for the 2 months in Canada, and now that I'm back in semi-familiar territory, I've kinda relaxed a little. I have had the chance to catch up with some friends though which has been very nice. Although I enjoyed travelling on my own immensly, it's also very nice to have some company for a change.

Yesterday, I turned up for the first day of my elective at RMH. I turned up at the anaesthetics department, and nobody was expecting me. It seemed that nobody - not even my supervisor - knew that a student from NZ was coming at all! It took them some time to decide what to do with me. I even left for 30 minutes, came back and nothing had happened! Eventually they put me in a theatre where I stayed for the rest of the day. Today was fairly similar, where I just turned up in the morning and joined a theatre where no local students were already placed. I have been promised a schedule but nothing has appeared yet... while I don't mind sitting in on lists to get used to the environment here, it will be good to have a bit more structure to my attachment. Even if it's just knowing where to go each morning without having to bug the duty supervisor!!!