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Thursday, March 15, 2007

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I'm back!!!

Back from my rural attachment, back from my short trip, back to school. I haven't had internet for the past 5 weeks so excuse me for being slow in navigating the new blogger interface (so blogger has been bought over by google?)

For my final attachment of my Ba.App.Sc. (hahah I get a kick out of typing that out. Yes, Occupational Therapy is an APPLIED SCIENCE, my dears...does it change your impression of what I do? I bet some of you still INSIST on thinking that I can ONLY massage my patients, stubborn ignoramus) I have requested for a rural placement - which means I had been posted to a non-metropolitan area, ie not Sydney.

Taree train station

Taree is a town (population: 25,000) in north New South Wales. It has small city centre consisting of 2 supermarkets, 1 library, and a smattering of shops and restaurants. Many of the residents within the area are farmers and retirees. It's really not as ulu as it sounds, but then again, all the shops close at 5pm. Oh well.

Some pictures, yea?

Manning River - about 200m from the hospital where I was attached. It's pretty in a quiet way. I liked the fact that there are not too many things (people and boat) on the river which would have spoiled its tranquility. But it probably reflects something about the tourism here, heh.

The little cottage where I stayed in. The round cylinder is a rain tank - many of the residents who stay beyond the city centre depend on the rain for water. Taree was having a long bout of drought while we were there so many of the farmers had to buy water to support their farms. Rain water tasted...interesting. Water bought from the city tasted so terrible, residents would rather buy their drinking water from supermarkets.

The surroundings of the cottage. Our hosts have 17 acres of land, so we were sort of living in the forest, hahaha. We could see wallabies (smaller version of kangeroos) when we were driven out in the morning.

We were quite lucky to befriend medical students from UniNSW...one of them was able to drive us to explore the area dring one of the weekends.

Ellenborough Falls - the highest single-drop waterfall in the southern hemisphere

Waitui Falls - less impressive, but more fun because we could waddle into the water

At some beach. Yes, the slipper hit me.

Harrington's Point. The photo doesn't do enough justice to it. It's a very long peninsular-jetty that leads to another coast.

I've really enjoyed my attachment this time because of (1) Great company (2) Great hosts (3) Great food (4) Great supervisor (5) Great patients. Oh, and I also believe that it's partially due to the relatively short length of attachment.

Alright. Back to endless report-writing for now.

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Xiu Juan out
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