Today was a pretty cool day. We went and bought all ou vegetables and from the local market ad food from a very basic shop (actually that was yesterday I forgot) We actually went to the fish market and bought about 7 really big fish not sure but probably snapper for under 5 pounds. Lennie the woman at the hostel then dropped us all (about 15 of us from all different hostels) down at a hotel called the good samaritan which as a beautiful beach nd the water is over...

My second day on the island of Tongatapu was slightly less impressive then the first. We got up pretty early do go into the hospital and I went on my very first ward round. We got to see all the patients from the day before as well as the new patients on the ward. I ended up chatting away to one lady who spoke very good english only to find out later she was royalty! The main problem in Tonga is Diabetes and most patient in that hospital could have prevented havi...

Well it was certainly the most interesting day of my travels so far! I finally arrived in Tonga at 8.30 am on the 31 August having never had the day of the 30th August 2006 which is so strange. Matt and Toni were at the airport to pick me up and it was really good to see some familiar faces. We got home and within an hour of getting to toni's matt had me dressed and ready for going into the hospital. I was quite excited and it was definitely an offer I could not ...

Well it was certainly the most interesting day of my travels so far! I finally arrived in Tonga at 8.30 am on the 31 August having never had the day of the 30th August 2006 which is so strange. Matt and Toni were at the airport to pick me up and it was really good to see some familiar faces. We got home and within an hour of getting to toni's matt had me dressed and ready for going into the hospital. I was quite excited and it was definitely an offer I could not ...

Hi, Sorry this is the first post in a while but we've been really busy in the last few days. Since I left Trinidad we've been to Miami and LA which I'll tell you about as it was so much fun! In Miami we only had enough time to go shopping in a massive shopping mall, if I had more time could have spent a fortune as all the shops were so cheap there. We then got to the airport and found our flight was delayed which meant we missed our connecting flight in Atla...