Pumulani Lake Malawi National Park

... and as a result don't gain the practical skills till much later, there's got to be a happy medium! <br><br>So the operating theatre here is a mental place. For a start its obviously fairly basic with very old equipment and is not particlarly clean. Looks a bit like what I'd have thought a uk operating theatre would look like in the 70s. I was in there most of the day usually doing the job of scrub nurse and assistant surgeon for the c-sections. You could say there were a few ...

... beers and wooden bandas to sleep on right on the beach.<br><br>The comfort had to end at some point and we prepared ourselves for the 25 hour painfully slow train ride down to Mbeya. We went 1st class so we could travel in a berth together. It wasn't exactly luxury, we had 4 bunk beds, a table and a window. 2nd class was more cramped with 6 beds in each berth, and 3rd class was just wooden benches. We were right next to the toilet so everytime someone flushed a not so ...

... fish in Europe and North America, yes! Very cute sparkly fishies, that was amazing! And then we all sat on the roof of the boat and fed fish eagles which was so cool! What else can I say...we met loooaadds of people which was so fun, got to know everyone else straying at the lodge which was cool! Even met a couple from Ghent and some students from Antwerp, quelle small world! Ok...so think thats all I have to say about our amazing holiday, are you jealous yet ...

... back home..headman was actually a little ***** with us for being late for school, which was ridiculous as there was nothing for us to do anyways..but all was fine anyway soo...that eveneing after a day of monopoly and chilling out and market visitning we decided to have a game of ring of fire...ultimately this resulted in the most ammount of nakedness i have ever seen in all my life!! willy's and boobs flying everywhere, in naked cartwheels, and leap frog, with a ...

... enough to bring more. i owe 10.000 k, never a good feeling! especially since my cards are up the spout Also incredible sunset over hte beautiful lake which i took a fair few photos of and lots of little dudes hainging about the lake trying to teach me Chichewa, also good fun! Bought some happy pants (Trousers made very quiickly out of local african print material) which are CHILLLED! and have bought what i think may actualyl be some kind of ...

... br><br> Bao<br><br> At Fat Monkeys I learned to play Bao, a board game played in many African <br> countries under a variety of names (Mancala, Oware or other names), and <br> with different rules in each region. Bao is a great game! You can play <br> it tactically like chess, and you need to be good at counting and thinking <br> a number of steps ahead ...