Well this week seemed to drag!....probably because I just wanted to go and explore! But work was okay....no major dramas or anything too exciting which was nice! But out of work I was busy planning, building, buying and travelling!! So on tuesday after work I went to pick up a job lot of camping gear I won on an auction site.....I went to Wellington and up some mountain to pick it up!......basically it had cooker, sleeping bag, duvets, cooking pans, plates, b...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MUM!! Hope you had a good day and got treated well - sorry I'm not there :( Well this week started horribly - the boss is on A/L for 2 weeks and it was down to me and the other new lad to run the show basically......well he phoned in sick...so yea it was me on my own basically blagging my way through mon/tues/weds untill he felt well enough to come back. But I wasn't short of stuff to do and I was running around like an idiot (which secretly I l...

Just a quick one...... I HAVE SOME WHEELSSSSS!!!! I had a look around a couple of vehicles in my price range for what i wanted.....either a 4x4 go anywhere sort of thing or a van that I can convert into a camper van and sleep in and go on adventures. So 4x4s were all either beaten up rust buckets with massive V6 petrol engines that would be as reliable as matts mini :P haha I looked at a couple of vans and they were all battered old work vans that had a...

Well thats my second week of work done! And I have arm ache from doing echoes. Again the different pace of work is hard - Completely different world! But theres talk of me going over to the large Wellington hospital to do stents and cath lab stuff either once a week or once every 2 weeks - which will be really good! I get on really well with the other lad in the department and everyone seems really nice still! My house was a VERY good choice! My housemates are...

I have done my first week of work!! They do things very differently over here....the tests are pretty much the same but the doctors are alot more involved. For some of the tests I do them on my own where as here they have a doctor present!....so I think I might have stepped on his toes abit when I did my first one haha Apart from that, everyone seems nice...theres 5 technicians in the department - 3 of us do echoes and the other 2 just do the basic ECGs. T...