Happy new year

quick update since I havent been here in a long time.
Nov - 2007
finished paediatrics, major uni exams, big assignments, reflective essay, moved out of hodge street, uni christmas party, farewell sarah and danielle.
Dec - 2007
holiday in brisbane with family, wet n wild, ... really should get photos of all this stuff..
Jan 2008
Welcomed the new year at milsons point with sydney fireworks. Got a new house in Albury to rent for the year. Moving in with emily whos also doing med in my year.
To do: organise a med elective, move house again, get ready for 5th year.. yuck, im in the medicine equivalent of year 11. getting serious i guess. I cheer my self up by pretending that all the episodes of house ive been watching count as 'study'..

Long time no post.
what have I been doing the past month or so??
Finished a group project on cannabis use in indigenous australians.
spent a weekend at the snow with wodonga baptist! yay
spent a week in sydney. great to catch up with everyone.
Now Im back doing obstetrics and Gynaecology.
Saw one birth. one C section and one hysterectomy.
gross and messy. but i guess its not something that everyone gets to do.

got 7 weeks left in albury this year. . . and plenty of assignments and exams to keep me busy.
also got a job at target this week. about time you say???

Becky

thanks bec for letting me use your computer. ..
we've been watching so you think you can dance - on youtube. check out jamal and e-nock. umm and a guy called sex. sooo funny. there was another girl witha prosthetic arm.. cant find her... and also the robot guy. bryan gaynor. he got copyrighted. oohh hick and wink they're a funny couple too.. love it.
and yes we think we can dance

Annoying things to do on a car trip:
-tap
-click
-poke people sitting in front of you
-bang on the chair in front of you
-put other peoples headrests down
-tighten seat belts
-lean chairs backwards

4/09/07
WELCOME TO WAGGA
the welcoming committee put on a glamourous dinner for all new medical professionals and students. there was about 60 people and lots of great old surgeons to talk to. some up to 80 years old. fun times, good food, free drinks.

Corowa

very productive week.
i spent 3 days in corowa (population 5000)
there were a few gross things i wont mention - you can ask me later..
there were heaps of babies too. I got to mind some of them while the community nurse was chatting about feeding and weight and growth etc etc... One newborn fell asleep in my arms. much better than crying! his mum was happy
I gave one guy an injection of Gold. for arthritis. !
and burnt of some yucky skin spots

day 6

flight back to beijing saturday morning. Cindy took us to the airport dressed in her traditional clothes.
Everyone was ready for a nap at the sommerset hotel but the kids got bored so we went for a walk. ended up at hard rock cafe! heaps of fun. yummy chips, icecream and milkshakes.

Day 5

Friday in Li-Jiang. did some great shopping with Cindy our guide. watched a sing/dance show that night. The guy (ill find a photo) Cindy told us was 'seven thirty... i mean seventy three' hehe. We visited lots of shops along canals which was very cute. The trip up the mountain was loonngg, had a 2 hour wait at least. but we managed to spend the whole time chatting to a group of chinese tourists who were learnin/teachin english.Some of the kids, 17 yearolds, did amazingly well. I think they enjoyed having someone to practise with. The Cox kids managed to get a few photos up there.. the tourists are often more interested in the 'beautiful australians' than the scnery about them.. this happened at most of the places we went. bus trip back down the mountain was pretty boring except for the part where we got to ride a yack!! oh my goodness.. it cost a few dollars to ride and the same for a picture.. in australia i can imagine the ride being $20 and $50 for a picture. we couldnt resist. although i think the one bec had was a cow in disguise, she wasnt happy.

day 4

-Traditional Dali people wear fun costumes, the minority grop are the Bi people. Costumes represent teh snow, flowers, moon and wind.
-We visited an island with a fishing villiage on it. Some of the community had never left the island!
-Tea ceremony in the afternoon, complete with dancing and chinese singing which we didnt understand.
- 3 hour bus trip to Li-Jiang. 2 hours into it we came across a huge shed which contained a jewellry store looking like david jones! it was glamorous but just in the middle of nowhere.

Day 3

Our tour guide Roger picked us up on rainy wednesday morning. We travelled to the stone forest in the morning and Western Hill in the afternoon.


Plane to Dali. Stayed at a nice hotel.

Day 2

Breakfast was a strange assortment of cereal, lettuce, toast, gerkins, tomato, rice, bacon, curry, eggs.... so strange.
Dad and I walked around the block to kill time.. plenty to see. the witches sweeping the road,people on bikes, traffic, traffic, crazy intersections, lots of funny shops. and bad smells.
Flight to Kunming at 12ish. then roger drove us to our new place. met the family there and heard about their travels!!
Then off to hit the shopping/markets of mainstreet spring city. lots of junk. but i managed to buy a shirt $5 and said thankyou in chinese. the lady was most impressed. people tend to know HELLO and youre welcome. which is difficult the R and L.
lots of shoes. belts. bags. food. fruit. bikes.
Dinner was mixed.. 3 of us had buffet which was chinese. and the others had spagetti and burgers and milkshakes.. yumm.. at least they didnt go hungry. will get photos later.. too difficult to figure out on the laptop here.
so now off to bed. exhausted from the stress of crossing 2 roads today.
tomorrow night is another flight out...

China Day 1

9/07/07
Flew about 12 hours to Bejing. Watched becoming jane, slept, ate, watched saturday night fever, slept, ate and finally got there late at night. driver wang took us to the garden hotel or something. no one spoke much english besides HELLO. which they yell at you every so often.
Saw Russ, a family friend from australia and he promises to take us shopping later in the week.
after i figured out the shower etc.. it was definately bed time.

Cousins

Girls night out

Danielle gave me my typhoid injection today. This is her practise go, i think she was taking a run up. She did such a great job, didnt hurt at all but there was a bit of blood!. thanks dan. Pic 2 is our dinner at rural clinical school and dont we just look like a bunch of nerds.

I diagnosed my first suspicious breast lump on a mammogram. Dr Bright was pretty impressed! Those things just look like a black and white mess

Music

Played keyboard again this sunday. Great band. It was all boys other than me though. Chris on Bass, Scott on drums, Archie on guitar, Mason leading, with Paul and Kurt singing. We did quite a few new songs. I'd sung them but not played for ages.

Awesome in this place (it literally goes 'God is awesome, He is awesome, God is awesome in this place...' wow boring)
Salvation is here (Hillsong)
Hosanna
Beautiful one
How great is our God
Majesty

Pretty different not having to lead the song like you would at a morning service. Scott was very creative and very clever with arranging songs to sound better. I pretty much just did what I was told. Kinda scary coz I havent played in such a long time. I got the scary part of playing during the offering. so nervous.
Next time im going to have a bit of a practise on the uni piano.

WDBC

GO Wodonga!! We had an awesome time away at state youth games, yep who would have thought id ever represent wodonga in victorian sports? 50 of us went down and camped along with 3000 other people from various churches over the state (more photos later). Quite a hectic weekend
Ultimate Frisbee: my first time ever, we came 3rd in C grade!
Ladies Netball: we were in A grade... and lets just say we had plenty of fun!! well we won 1 game in about 5 so thats ok.
mixed Touch football: the first time in 5 years probably.. and our team drew the grandfinal 1-1. it was such hard work but everyone was pretty patient with the few girls we had on the team.
Revive: our guest band for the night was heaps of fun... go sharky! no realy there was a shark!!
mixed netball: again did pretty poorly. boys are funny to watch. i forget how many rules there are to explain to them!
AEROBICS: B grade. the other teams were 14 year old girls/professionals. but were pretty boring,, like watching eisteddfords. our team was 12 of us, 4 boys, and we'd practised so hard, we dressed up 80s style but so many things just seem to go wrong once you get us infront of the lights. we had the biggest cheers and the other teams loved us. we sure were entertaining. i think the comment from the MC was 'What a long way to come.... to look like THAT'.

photos