vaolimue @ 2009-08-11T22: 38:00
It is time catch up.
I'm already almost two weeks here and Gracious reason, there is much to tell!
After several visits to the authorities, which here are by no means straightforward or unumständlicher, as in Germany, and that cost us the complete Monday and Tuesday and a Wednesday on which the university has a Welcome day was just for us (the ending is that we vortanzten 5 Germans the entire team, the Red Horse, which was more painful than after the Colombian dancers appeared on Thursday ...), I had my first Unitag. My dear godfather Ivan was really incredible (pünktlich!) 06:15 (morning) at my door, to accompany me the first time by taxi to the hospital. The catch here, namely, by 7 clock ... Meanwhile, after a 12-hour day shift on Saturday and yesterday and today I can report Uni: I'm incredibly lucky with my group. We are talking to eight, seven girls and one boy, as far as I can see all the honest very nice, slow with me, show me a lot, praise me, one from the U.S., so I in the largest change th emergency or acute loss of word in English can and they all live in my area, so we each morning with a taxi in the Travel clinic. are buses to out there, it does not, the district is very aloof, very poor, except if the main road as unpaved, and taxi driving is perfectly normal and not expensive anyway.
The university here is COMPLETELY different than in Germany, much more likely to compare with an internship, as with normal classes. I try to explain, even if I was still not quite a view:
You get the whole semester, only lessons in this 8-person group. The semester is divided into 8 Rotaciones à 2-3 weeks, 5 of which Gyn, Uro 2 and 1 general medicine. Rotación for each one is in another hospital and has a different timetable. Usually you from 7-13 in the morning and afternoon until about 16:30 Clock lessons. In each case the first theory, with presentation and query, and then practice where you work really like during the clerkship. I am currently in general practice, so for me that means, above all, patient record, ultrasound, basic research has, etc. We each morning and at noon a lecturer for one week, at the end of the week there are both a written test and at the end of an exam Rotación again treated on all subjects. What is more, we have twice a week Turno, that is 12-hour service Day or night. So I had the day off from 7-13 Clock university, that is because, at least during this Rotación is teaching only in the morning was, then later in the evening of 7 clock clock-7 in the morning and night shifts from 7 in the morning clock back university. .. Quite a lot more than in Germany ...
The hospital in which I am currently located in one of the poorest neighborhoods of Barranquilla. The latticed doors are guarded by armed men. Even the taxi ride there in the morning an experience! Thousands of people, motorbikes, horse and donkey carriages, cars and trucks on the road, in between occasional bikes, and I probably know this a forklift seen. Tracing is not little, but not easy at all respected, all wind their way past each other, like too far into the opposite lane, people get away felt a hundred times per ride very close to a frontal collision, and it is honking . Ench, you would feel you here! Horn has little to do here with a Warnsignel or a bursting rage in Germany, but all in my estimation, rather than employment or at best as a general statement: "Warning, I now get over yourself!" Be careful, I'm going through a red Traffic light, "" Be careful, it is just a new song on the radio ...".
The patients in the clinic according to the site are very poor, can not afford sometimes even the einfachsen therapies, so that a girl in my group schonmal paid a total stranger the boys (really cheap) asthma therapy. The students here are working incredibly independent, take up, investigate write prescriptions, diagnose and develop treatment plans. We are all here addressed as Doctora, I like that. :) On Saturday
should Antonella and I a little girl on a shard of glass had violated the heel stitch. I do not know if the numbness did not work properly, but casting aside the most horrible thing I've ever experienced in a hospital. I got really bad, and that does not happen so fast! The child has so gekrischen, a more than sturdy sister held her leg, and we have two under the supervision of a doctor trying with trembling hands to get the needle through the thick cornea .. Two tricks we've done, the rest did the doctor.
least as hair-raising: I have found in any single area of small hospital disinfectant! Let alone gloves or a mask. The need to bring your own everything here. After all, there is water and soap. Because the glove for transvaginal palpation examination of a pregnant woman is already sometimes moistened with water contaminated with microbes instead of gel ...
However, one must admit that it really is a very small and very poor hospital, and I'm curious how it looks in the other houses. Otherwise, I feel
me in the city very well. Everything is so colorful and alive here, all loud, all different. I find myself now a little less alone deal, after all, can already run independently for nights shopping center, find the university may own a taxi driver, and I know where WG is Bianca. I'm learning slowly about the food and the Colombian Caribbean fruit (previous favorites. Lulo This passion fruit and fresh, homemade juice! incredibly delicious, I prefer here in most cases even before the chocolate Scheuss here, moreover! ; Lich tastes just like the bread so if you want to send something or do not have Christmas gift: Send me good Milka chocolate and baking mixes;))...
Outside of my group, the vast majority of people are very friendly, my host parents are totally sweet and I also understand better and better, the other Germans and I understand only because of the German-being (not just because of this) well, I'm happy to be in the WG of Bianca (3Deutsche, 2 French), but a lot of society than here in my room, and also Emily, etc are really nice. The previous record of about 10 German, 15 French and 30 Colombians felt in the WG. Fun evening, which ended in a night-eating empanada, which I have used the word "vacío" learned (empty), because I was missing my Empanada of the cheese. My
ants ran during the road last week from my bathroom window into the infinite depths of my Sink, and was since then never seen again.
English is to some extent, I am often praised, but I could already speak bastante bien, but I have problems with above all understanding. As long as people speak slowly or with me alone, are you, but if you talk in a group or simply (as I fear) to speak and quick to urge nurnoch a few words to my central to word recognition program. But that will hopefully slowly getting better. At least I can communicate at all. :)
Two wonderful news for last: My Skype works, even with a camera, my name is vaolimue, the time difference is 7 hours, I expect calls. And secondly, I survey now about the scope of my Colombian mobile phone card: I can use a code, and extra money to call landlines and mobile phones in Germany, but I can not write SMS. But you are allowed to call me and texting, because it works that is. :)
The number is: 0057-300 874 39 22
Sun At a next time, the very best wishes go home and I'm really looking forward to answers (preferably via email or StudiVZ).
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