Hi everybody! Thank you all for your messages, it is nice to hear from home! Since my last entry I spent two weeks working at zomba central hospital, and have been travelling since then. Zomba hospital was much better for me to work at than Queen Elizabeth in Blantyre, because I was the only medical student in the department. It is a smaller hospital with only one gynaecologist for about 100 women. Lots of acute and complicated cases are referred from the...

Hi everyone! This is my first message from Blantyre, Malawi, where I arrived 3 weeks ago. I had a very african welcome to the country :-). I arrived at the airport here (with my bags :-), but the person that was supposed to pick me up wasn't there so I took a taxi. When I got to the lodge my room had been given away to someone else and they couldn't tell me when my room would be free. So I got stuck at Doogle's backpackers hostel, which to say the least is a b...