Taj Garden Retreat

Well it turns out that madurai lived up to the fun we had in the first two parts of the weekend. We got there pretty early again, so had to sleep in another hotel reception before we could go for breakfast. It's quite funny really how no-one seems to want to let us pay for a room, but they're happy to let us sleep in their receptions?? Anyway, we had a nice continental breakfast again, and met some French and Spanish girls. They were traveling around madurai that day too so we decided to group up.

After breakfast, we did a bit of shopping and sight seeing. I bought a KKASIO watch for about 1pound :). A few of us also got some Aladdin trousers called 'alibaba' and I also got a crazy shirt made too. The doctors at the hospital are giving me some funny looks when I go for meals in my bright blue alibaba's, but I think they look pretty cool really!

So later that day, we went to the Taj Garden Retreat Hotel. This was absolutely amazing, the pool was lovely, the grounds were stunning, the peacocks were beautiful, the food was amazing (though pretty expensive), and we just had such a relaxing time before starting our last working week!

One of our classmates from Southampton has also arrived now. We booked our electives separately so its a coincidence that we're in the same place, but its pretty cool none the less. We've been giving him a tour around today too. It feels pretty strange that we'll be leaving in a lot less than a week now, but I'm pretty excited about going home, and about our last 4 days of travelling!

Got to go now, John is coming over in a bit so we can look over his personal statement. He's hoping to come to study in England next year, so we're going to help him apply! It would be really cool to show him around some places like he has done for us here. Oh and we gave him a present today as well... when we went trekking the other week, he really liked my camelbak (water reservoir bag), so we bought him one to say thank you. He said he'd had a dream about mine, so i think it made him happy.

So the rest of the week is theatre tomorrow, and probs ICU for the rest of the time.... Nearly done...