Bluefield Lodge Dangriga

This week we headed to the little town of Dangriga where we would live for the next six weeks to do our elective. The town is pretty small, really not a lot to do around the area but a good home base for weekend adventures. The place we're staying at is quite good, very secure and run by a lovely lady. Jodie and I got the best deal - a decent sized room with two double beds which officially makes it the hangout room for us all. Cos Nicola and Jono are in a tiny room just big enough to fit the...

Got back to Dangriga Sun night and met Kathryn's boyfriend Paul who's flown all the way over from the UK to visit! He won our love by bringing us over a pot of Marmite =) Had a good week at the hospital - did some worming, pharmacy, a&e, went on an ambulance ride and clinic. Jodie and I were meant to be going on a mobile immunisation clinic but ended up getting in the wrong shuttle and got dropped at a random doctor's clinic in Hopkins hehe. Turned out to be great though the doctor was re...

Three exciting newses: I think someone has granted my wishes and shot all the roosters!! All of a sudden there's hardly any cockadoodledooing anymore which makes for a much better sleep yay =) And we discovered a cafe in Dangriga that makes REAL COFFEE how excitement. And we got some newbies at the hospital - Austen and James who are Aussies doing their elective too. They're good fun and it's cool to have some new company. Everyone was busy this week preparing for the elections so there wasn'...

Another week at the hospital... mostly did ward rounds and a&e. Also had an exciting day when some ENT surgeons from the States came over - got to see some cool ops and scrub in on a cleft palate repair. Heaps of machete wounds in a&e this week - pretty much every guy in Belize owns one. Sometimes when we go past a school we see the kids out in the yard with the boys practising using machetes and the girls practising raking sand, hehe cracks me up. Didn't get up to heaps else exciting...

Back in Dangriga I had my first birthday away from home =( Was a nice day though - wagged hospital and mucked around all day went shopping, watched tv, ate yum stuff and spoke to people back home which was great. Then a group of us went out for dinner and drinkies at the resort, fun fun. Next day there was massive scandal at the hospital!! (Not from our night out though.) All the doctors trained in Cuba are sent somewhere like Belize for two years to work, but their family has to stay in Cuba...

Of all the towns we've been to this one definitely has the least to offer. I really like the place we are staying at (the Bluefield Lodge) but interms of tourist attraction there is not much here. They don't even have a proper bar...its all thelocal type where the bartender is behind a cage with the booze and all you can buy is beer or the local moonshine...bitters. Needless to say the guys had a great time drinkin bitters with the local guys in the stat club but they didn't like girls in the...