vaolimue @ 2009-09-17T06: 08:00 The reason why I've written anything for so long, is that I'm very active lately become very smart. I spend most of my days in the hospital, and whenever I'm home, I have to learn. Learning a lot. We have almost every day a little and about once a week, a large presentation (that was the beginning of each time is even more terribly exciting, in a colloquium of students, learning-PJ, assistant doctors and senior physicians a pre ; keep presentation in English, but now it works better and you get used to even good ones), tests, final exams, spontaneous bed-side-brain-storming during the visit, and an eerie way in fast approaching mid-term exam at end of oral a witch from a professor in two weeks ... Once a week we have a 12-hour night shift, from 19 bis 7 clock clock and then you heading home right by 7 clock with lessons, or, like today, with exams. A fun time after 2 hours sleep four people on a mini mattress on the floor in a completely supercooled space ... I like no night services.
I am now in the next Clinic, Hospital Ni o Jesus ñ had arrived, and again today my last day there. (Final exams ran contrary to expectations really good.) In accordance with the gradual elevation level from clinic to clinic, the hospital was still a little more modern than the Hospital de Barranquilla. Bigger, cleaner, with real plastic beds (with mattress, pillows and bed sheets!), Only 6 patients per room, but this time even with separation curtains between the beds, air-conditioned. In some rooms there are disinfectants, and the rooms are divided into a room with pregnant women with syphilis, a room with pregnant HIV-positive, etc.. And the rooms are always full !.... The hospital specializes in pregnant women and newborns, so we were practically every day for births here, countless pregnant women during the two weeks studied, made medical history, patient self-recorded and presented to the senior physician at the visit (it works now really good in English!), last week I got my first birth almost alone, made only under the supervision of a physician assistant, followed by dam stitch! I was terribly proud of it and it was such fun!
The latest records are an eleven year old who was admitted because she had tried to abort themselves, and a 14 year old that we have from the 'Sala de Partos' (delivery room), further referred to the surgery for cesarean section because her pelvis was just childish nor too small for the head of her baby .. The nurses here wear short white skirts, white stockings and a white cap, just as one would imagine. What has really surprised me was the ultra-modern 3D ultrasound device of the hospital, the ultrasound equipment is in Joho Wiesbaden relaxed in the shade. The clinic itself is actually pretty, long, balcony-like colonnades to an overgrown with exotic plants around the courtyard, from which you can access the individual rooms. Everything was a bit confused, we were constantly waiting for a doctor, once we arrived at 7 in the hospital, only to learn that the doctor is now at 9, so we could go up 11, sometimes only to 5, and before that, unfortunately, no one knows. Exams are spontaneously made right now, or postponed week after week, also because nobody really has as real an overview. Very Colombian everything .. Doctors and especially PJ LER nice, as always, but especially this time a lot funnier than the last clinic. All know me anyway, because I the German am, and I always leave shall be taken any nasty jokes about me, then I do not even really ... ;)
It's like this: My English is from week to week a bit more talk, works so well that I will ever praise, but, depending on the day, fatigue level and dialect, I have some problems honestly understand people. The trouble is, the boring things I do almost all, only once it is interesting or important or funny, all excited and talking a lot faster, and the latest from Christina's there again occurs sentence-sausage. No chance. And I probably do not need to explain how a joke is still funny after he was again explained very slowly ....
The people in my group are still nice, but they were noted to have a strong penchant for pink, glitter, kitsch and the sadly humorless and rather complicated deal with some situations. With 3 of the 7 I get along really well but, Myrna, Johana and Asid, the only boy in our group, 2 are nice, and the other two are nice, but not quite as my case. Unfortunately, there are few to no people at all, would be a bit of student, alternative, and I sometimes lack a bit. Overall I know but now a whole lot of cool people, some of my semester, a couple of other Colombians, German, a handful of crazy French, Americans, British ... Very confused everything, and very funny.
I now have found a modest house in October. My host parents were always kind to me, but they were already tiring, especially Daisy, the woman who day in and day out with their flip flops shuffles through the house without raising the feet properly, and myself when I just get a glass of water, constantly reminding me to leave everything neat. Moreover, in the house next to us School for children with learning difficulties, which unfortunately have their music day once a week, preferably on days after my night shifts. Then get each child an instrument (and of course it can not be a harp or useless triangle, no, there have been drumming her ..) and plays so loud and so long and at all what it wants. That's great to fall asleep .... Whatever the case, I will not mourn my room very much. Above all, because I draw with 3 other Germans, three French, one Brazilian and Emily, the British woman in a large white villa. Garden columns, 3 floors, half-round stairs, large Window, each room with private bathroom and large balcony, pool (!!), huge kitchen, all together with associated costs, including facility, internet, maid service, laundry and pool maintenance almost 170 € a month. I think that's entirely appropriate. The villa is quite near here, a 5-minute walk from the shopping center Buena Vista (which it incidentally, contrary to some expectations of you and Tommy Hilfiger, Levis, Review, Esprit, Roxy, D G, Mango and all sorts of other expensive or very expensive shops are! This is correct as modern, glossy, expensive! Even if you look at the other of my Perhaps her stories can not imagine so). Unfortunately, knowing neither we nor the owner of the house number, it is somehow not, and therefore there is no problem with any post, all large and small gifts from now on please contact the WG of Hannah and Bianca:
Viola Mueller
c / o Bianca Fritz
Carrera 51 No. 79-62
Edificio "Los Pisignos"
Apto. 6
Barranquilla Colombia
At least I'm thrilled to finally move is in the long run be very bored here alone in my room. There are also direct across from my balcony a small Tienda future, which just about everything, including selling ice cold beer. This has saved many a learning schonmal evening ..
Stay to tell some other things:
is the favorite of the Colombian telenovela from a millionaire drug lord and his (bought) women and cars. How fitting ... ;)
We currently have approximately every two weeks, current and / or water loss. Is great, with sparkling water to wash the hair.
Skype works great, I feel this not a bit far away from home.
vacuum cleaner is `` aspiradora here, so inhalation. I find this absolutely obvious and I was really looking forward rather about it than I have learned this term.
The people here eat fast food almost exclusively, it is incredible how many different burgers there, big, small, colorful, gray, with meat, more meat, hot, wild, combined with fruit sauces or with a normal very little lettuce and tomatoes, and these are all relatively thin on here!
Last week, I crushed a small, inconspicuous beetles on my wall, then the neon-yellow-green began to shine and I was not at all very reminiscent of the radioactive rods in the opening credits of The Simpsons. The patch has not shone all night, but so far I'm not up somehow over relatively quickly, or have developed supernatural abilities .. Too bad.
The plan from now: To the delight of all and we have very necessarily be tomorrow (Thursday) four days off and go first thing tomorrow morning with about 10 people in the Tayrona National Park, with some of the most beautiful beaches from the Caribbean, is located about an hour away from here. The Learning by four days not sleeping sea, white beaches, bonfires with marshmallows, bread and guitar music, fresh coconuts, hammocks and sleep in at all times properly again. Yes, at this point you are allowed to be jealous! :) We just went shopping all together, and have paid for a half million pesos! HALF A MILLION!
Then you continue on the next Rotación, this time in the right university hospital. to re-learn a lot, but for the semester is only the beginning of December, then I'm free until April. Until April! This means first travel to Medellin and Bogota, Barranquilla Christmas in here until early January my family comes to visit me (!!), then it'll possibly to Peru, Ecuador or Venezuela, we do not yet know in sufficient detail to mid-February for the carnival again here in March with Isabelle clinical internship in La Paz, Bolivia, and around mid-April I'll be back. At least that is the plan. ;)
Dear friends, you are back at the level of the things I say goodbye to paradise.
soon, Viola.
