what to say bloggie,



i'm in SEGAMAT, northern Johor,on rural attachment for a fortnight

so i left on monday with the rest of year 2 classmates. endured the 3 hour long journey [stopped at Ayer Keroh after 2 hours] most of my classmates fell asleep on the bus..journey was fine except for me getting dizzy by the winding road. then the driver started smoking and pretty soon, became car sick. i think me getting sick scared most of my classmates and tutors....



this being my second day here, i'm still getting used to this place

we're staying at a hotel. accomodation, breakfast and lunch provided..dinner and food during merdeka weekend-on ourselves.

internet is wireless, but as usual my computer is *special* and as a result, Faheem creates a new account specially for me to acces the Internet. Thanks Faheem :)



we travel by bus to our placement for the day. today we went to the orang asli settlement and clinic which was at least an hour's bus ride [AGAIN thru windy roads..nope i didn't fall sick going there but coming back

Day5
well on wednesday we went to the Klinik kesihatan and Klinik Desa which are really important features of the rural healthcare. it's this feature that enables malaysia to be in the top 10 health positions worldwide [in rural heathcare i think??] i think klinik Desa is more fun to visit than Klinik Kesihatan..all 4 of us got our blood glucose levels, weight, and BP checked while angelyn, faheem and i had our blood levels checked :)

we even followed the community nurse as she did a post natal [after delivery] home visit, where we had 2 levels of translation going on there- angelyn translated from mandarin to english, while chris and i translated from english to malay hehe
actually the commuinty nurse is like a jack of all trades, she administers the clinic, is the doctor for minor ailments, the antenatal care giver for moms to be, the clinic cleaner and gardener, a mom to her own children, the housekeeper for the clinic and God knows what else

but anyway, yesterday[day 4] we went to Segamat hospital..spent the whole day there
got briefings and a tour of the hospital in the morning while in the afternoon we clarked patients [taking their medical history]

since it's merdeka weekend, we've got 3 days of freedom..which i think i'll spend in the hotel doing work
i think around 5-10 ppl went to dataran segamat last nite for the merdeka eve celebrations
but anyhow gotta go and eat now
will update as much as possible
lots of love,
the author.