Hi, Just finished my final day in the hospital before I fly onto Miami for 1 night then LA for 4 nights. We were given the day off tomorrow to relax before our flight which we happily took! Off to do some shopping this afternoon then this evening we have been invited to a friends house here for a meal which should be quite nice! We were on call last night and yesterday but it got pretty quiet and so the other students decided to take us to a wine bar for the...

Hi Matt here, I'm back in Trinidad for the next few days while Anni stays and suns it up in Tobago. Had surgery today, pretty standard but I almost got to scrub in and help but my mate got in ahead of me, hopefully I can help out next week! I've managed to develop 2 nail infections, prob from being in all the water, spoke to our surgeon and he said to leave it for a couple of days and if no improvement or it gets worse then he'll prescribe me some anti-biotic...

Ants: The boys spent the night on call and so the girls and I went out to a bar called the Woodford café. We arrived just after 10pm the place looked like we were entering the ghetto but we decided to go in and have a look around. It turned out that there were hardly any other people in the bar and as we had already paid 8 pounds to get in we decided to stay. It was an interesting night as all our drinks were free and so as you can imagine we all really enjo...

Ants: Today was a pretty uneventful day and im sure matt will update the journal for himself as I know his has been pretty interesting. Matt an Togay were on call from 8am today until10am tomorrow so us girls took the oppertunity to go shopping. Sam and I spent the morning at a really small mall an were told that there was a bigger mall not too far from where we were. We met up with Rynn and Julia after they finished at the hospital and went to book our boat tr...

Ants: Today was Emancipation day in Trinidad and so everyone had the day off from the hospital. We Had planned a boat trip with the same two people who took us surfing the other day. We managed to pursuade a maxi driver to go off his route and take us all the way to chaguramas which is about half an hour away for a pound a person. They must think we are crazy here as they are not meant to go off their designated route. We arrived at the powerboat yard and had s...