Riverside Hotel Dangriga

... Although it seemed Ray Ray was coming along for the ride too. Thankfully he found some locals to irritate on the bus instead.



Step five avoiding body fluids...

bus to Belmopan. Fairly uneventful. Was intrigued by the body fluids removal kit hoisted prominantly at the front of the bus. Also had to try and not stare at the young guys who jumped on bus wearing US rap t shirts which used sequins to depict the bling of the ...

Today started with Ward round and some more Baby checks. In the maternity room there is a TV showing an instructive how to look after your baby video…. It was American and terribly cheesy and seemed to be being ignored by all the women.

The air conditioning is working again, and so the little baby's temperature has gone which was a relief because we’ve started to get to know her mum ...

... screening mammography etc. It made me realise how constrained gps are in England-with only 10mins pr person it somehow seems that even in this country where there are such scarce resources patients may in some ways receive better care…………… ……………R 30;……..



Anyw ays, Sarah has just made lime juice so am off to try it. Wish me luck……..

... hall to give the paper and crayons to the little boy and his brother… they seemed pleased.. still no smile though.

Late in the morning when were we back in paediatrics we had the idea (I should prob say it was Anwen’s idea because I honestly can’t remember and when she edits this, she might be annoyed if it was!) to make paper aeroplanes :D Luckily Anwen could remember a good one (I was totally useless… although I vaguely remember that my ...

... some of them walk 4 hours in the heat of the sun to get there. We walked 20minutes back to the house, were sweltering so headed straight to the beach.

The politics of being a student somewhere where medicine is practised differently is interesting. After all who are we to think we know more than doctors who have been practicing for years. The American students who are out here are doing a telecommunications project trying to help the ...

So, after leaving Livingston and getting a very small boat across a very large ocean, I arrive in Punta Gorda, Belize. My intentions of heading to Placencia are waylaid when I meet some other travellers heading to the Garinfuna Settlement Day festival in Dangriga...who am I to miss the largest festival day in Belize? So off on a bus to Dangriga we go...after trying some fry jacks for breakfast ...

... to sea. It was certainly worth the wait. The creature was enormous and we followed for a hile before leaving it in peace. Following this momentour occasion, we snorkelled round the rest of the island, with no Bull Shark in sight, before triumphantly returning to the guesthouse to share the tales of our day´s snorkelling with our fellow guests. We begrudingly left the island the following day and headed north to Caye Caulker....

Hello everyone in the States!! Well, it's day 4 and we're all alive....sweaty and stinky, but alive nonetheless. We had a wonderful time of worship tonight with Pastor Jim leading the singing. It was so powerful!! Our sharing time during the devotional was moving, so moving that I was crying, Dennis was crying (surprise!!). We have all been able to hear how God is moving in our hearts. God is great and I am so excited to see how He is going to move in all of us in the ...

... windows on both sides of the room, but little breeze coming in. Our room included both a bunk bed and a double bed. We tried to lay on the double bed and rest, but couldn't stop sweating long enough to fall asleep. Erinn took a cold shower and put a moistened washcloth on her face, but still couldn't cool down. She began to panic a bit about our situation: hot and unable to sleep in a horribly uncomfortable room in a foreign country that was a bit ...

... a few hours cos could hear it slowly travelling up and down all the streets of Dangriga town haha it was huge. Kathryn had a scarier night - she'd been away for the week with her boyfriend and was staying in Belize City (dangerous part of the country) for election night. And at like 3am she heard the gunshots from someone who opened fire in the hotel bar downstairs for some political reason. Arg! But it's all quietened down now so it's good to have elections out of the way.