Bali so far

We arrived in Bali and were met with a 3 hour wait for our driver which was really annoying. We are staying in legian in su's crappages (cottages) which aren't really up to my usual standards but do the job for a bed and a shower rats included.

Placement starts at 8-1 though we usually leaver earlier. We all spent the first two weeks on obs and gynae. Iesha plays with babies all day whilst Sarah and I see deliveries. We hae seen forceps and auction deliveries. There is again no pain relieve and tw women go through the whole thing in almost silence.

I have seen one horrific badly managed shoulder dystocia which will stay with me forever and resulted in a severely brain damaged baby and a traumatised and traumatic I jury to mum.

We have spent most afternoons on the beach though we have also been out clubbing a few times with the crazy Leeds medics and have gone white water rafting which was great.

Bali is a weird place it is full of bogan Australians. It is very expensive to liver probably more similar to Spain than somewhere in Asia. It is nice but not somewhere I would return as other places in Asia but at least the weather is great. This weekend we went tithe gili islands which was much more like the paradise that I was hoping Bali would be. It also was much more European. Though the boat ride was sooooo rough!!! I have also been surfing 4 times and am getting the hang of it slowly. It only costs 3-4£ for a days rental.

Hope everyone at home is well! Just over 4 weeks left!

Whistle stop tour Singapore

We arrived in singapore at 9pm on Tuesday by train as I said. We had a long long day of sightseeing pretty much all of the day! Iesha and I had lunch in the buisiness district and had noodles fish chicken egg etc etc for $2.10 about £1 it was great and the only value thing in Singapore.

We had dinner in the really trendy club street and had an amazing Italian before going out clubbing and baring! Entrance was free for them as it was ladies night and 14 pound for me though I did get 2 free drinks! Basically typical anti male sexism. Clubbing was a really odd experience.

We then and did some more sightseeing an went to little India and quickly left as we had all had enough of India did a lot more shopping and the firms finally got their ALDO shoes which we have been into about 15 different ALDOs multinationally. So I was happy to no more Aldo!

We went to a bar club on the roof top of the most amazing hotel in the evening had one expensive cocktail and danced with the rich of Singapore!

We got to bed around 3.30am with the clocks set for 2 hours later as we all had to pack before our airport taxi turned up at 7.15!!! Singapore was amazing but expensive but more than anything it was so nice to have 2 days of western world before going back to living and working in Indonesia!

Malaysia

We have had a really nice couple of days in KL. We were delayed coming from India (of course) and didn't get to KL until 1.30am and ieshas poor uncles wife's, cousins husband (tenuous family link) had come to collect us.

We stayed at the house the girls ha one room and I had another. The girls panicked at first as they thought there was just a squatting toilet. It was lovely of them to let us stay in their family farm where 4 generations of the same family were living. We were a 25 minute train journey out of KL which was fine. On the first day ieshas uncles wifes cousins husband drove us around to a few cool places such as the Bati caves, dropped us at a mall to do some shopping and had nice lunch and took us to another mall which had a river running through it (see pics). Then in the evening they took us for some really really yummy street cafe food which was satay mutton fish and chicken and fried rice.

On the second day we got up early and went into kl. We saw the shopping malls the petronas towers, kl tower, Chinatown, and had a really really nice lunch and dinner in Bukit Bintang which was some of the best street food I've ever had. We had noodles, prawns, crab, ribs. So much nicer than the Chinese food at home. We got back really late (well 11.30) and everyone was in bed and a mad dog was barking at us. We phoned to wake them up to let us in and the aunti (massi) was do worried she had called England to the auntie 4 times. I guess it's the culture difference that unmarked girls wouldn't be out that late but it was really sweet and we felt awful. Next day we had a nice Indian breakfast and got on the train to Singapore which is a place I absolutely love have had a nice dinner and are in our expensive hostel in our tiny but private room. It is very ££££ here.