Ni Hao Beijing! I eagerly waited for mum and dad at the airport in Beijing with our tour guide for the week - Alan. It was amazing to see them, and what a weird but extraordinary place to have to come together. We reached the hotel - yes you did read that correctly. I have been spoilt with luxury for a week! Believe or not, I was completely taken aback by the niceness of the hotel and just wanted to curl up with m'julie on the floor. It is winter in Beijin...

I arrived in Kuala Lumpur (KL) very excited to finally be in a city.I went straight to Bedz Hostel in the Birkit Bintang area, the main shopping district in KL.The hostel was lovely, very clean and modern.I dropped my bags and went to explore the area.I went to Times Square shopping mall - a 13-floor mall with 3 cinemas including the largest Imax in the world, a 46-lane bowling alley and a theme park with rollercoaster's.It was so overwhelming.I headed straig...

p, pre {margin: 0;} input.blogger-ie-hack {position: absolute; left: -9999px;}hr.more {border-width:1px 0 0 0; border-style:dashed; border-color: #666; height: 8px; background:#ddd} We had our last night as a group at Rasa Ria resort which was a nice way to wind down together. We had a gorgeous dinner on the beach before saying our goodbyes. It was very soreal saying goodbye having spent the last 2 months with everyone but I was excited for the beginning ...

After being ill for four days I had missed lots of work so was eager to get back. I had 5 days left of my final placement – husbandry. In the morning of the placement, first thing – we trek for half an hour to a platform in the jungle where the rangers observe the orang-utans that have been through the rehabilitation process at sepilok and have been released into the wild. There are lots of orang-utans that come here every day – mainly for food but I als...

At the end of my clinic placement came a well needed four days off. However they weren’t exactly what I would call relaxing. Our first day off we took a journey to a local home stay. We were supposed to be spending the night here, staying in a local families home however we had planned to climb mount kinabalu the next day and therefore thought we needed a good night’s rest. Therefore we only spent the day here. The place was called Batu Puteh on the Kina...