Hi again sorry its been a while,i've been nusy busy busy at work! Yesterday I had a busy day at work,still on the labour ward, delivered a placenta,half delivered a baby,resusitated a baby and assisted in many births and weighing babies! Its certainly been an experience but probably not one I would repeat in such poor conditions where the staff have such limited skills and knowledge.I have seen the most terrible treatment of women and horrible ways of trying to ...

hi all, Can't believe i've been here over a week now it has gone so fast! My second day at work yesterday was far busier than the first day,when we arrived at 8.30am there were 10 women all about the give birth and serval waiting,I saw loads throughout the day and got used to weighing the new borns and taking them over to post natal..which is just shocking to see!You walk in this 'ward' which is a fairly big room with rows of bed and find a space to leave your m...

first day of work today and I survived!!!!yay! Went in totally scared after hearing what then hospitals are like but lucky for us it was a very quiet morning with only 3 women in early labour so we watched 2 babies born,a c section and went to the prem unit. Let me paint you a picture of the labour ward....you walk in and hold your nose for the smell hits your stomach so early in the morning, then we get changed in the nurses office together with the windows ope...

Jambo everyone! So now we have left our lovely hotel and are settling into our house,we arrived yesterday and are now living much closer to town with better access to the interent and we've found a nice hotel to use the swimming pool!So i'm currently sitting here in swimming costum and shorts!weather is sunny but cooler than dar es salaam,still about 25 degrees I think. The other housemates are all really nice,there are 11 of us just now with 4 coming back from...

Went to Arusha national park today with a nice young couple we met at breakfast,its not far at all from where we are staying so didnt take long to get to.the park is amazing,full of all different animals and seeing them in the wild was lovely.We spent all day in there and our hotel had packed us a nice lunch which we ate overlooking the lakes and mt meru!Got some great pics! Yesterday we went to a snake park and Maassi museum...had a snake around my neck and then...