The Jungle Book

This weekend kinda started on thursday... Our morning ward round consisted of one patient (the doctor had already seen the rest), so we perused theatre for a bit instead. We got to see a caesarian section, and two hysterectomies. In the afternoon, there was nothing useful for us to do, no-one was in theatre, or giving birth... so we went to Dindigul instead. We found a suit shop that does tailored suits for 40 pounds, and had a general chillax in a hotel bar.

Friday, we all went to a water theme park near Madaurai. It was such good fun, they had all sorts of flumes and pools and rides etc, which was so nice in the Indian weather! We also went to madaurai for dinner tool.

Yesterday, we visited a wildlife sanctuary on the borders of Tamil Nadu and Kerala. The scenery was amazing, and the wildlife was pretty special too! We saw elephants, monkeys, lizards, and spiders as big as your face. I even got eaten by a leech! We also had our third meal out in a row on the way back home - its been a good week for food!

It was also much the same today, we went trekking again (leaving at 0500!) with our friend John. He took us into one of the local villages, and we walked through the forests following a dry river bed. It was stunning again! He showed us lemon, lime, jackfruit and guava trees. The guava was nice - the lemon not so nice! The bus journey home was pretty crazy too - there were so many people on the bus that people were dangling out of the doors, and the back of the bus was so full of people that we kept gouging holes out of the speed bumps. It seemed to be a fairly typical part of Indian life though cos no-one else seemed to mind much.

We're starting Cardiology tomorrow, which I'm very excited about, its one of my favourites. Hopefully it will be interesting and useful... i guess we'll see...