Sunday, April 3, 2011

Wudinna~ A place where you could find the simplest form of happiness=D

Hey, I'm currently in Wudinna, well... In fact, I'm here for nearly 3 weeks already. I guess we settled down quite well, and picking up the routine as time goes by! Hmm, can't deny that I miss Adelaide, but I had heaps of fun in this new place. I'm so sorry that it takes so long to update you guys. Wudinna is a really small town which has about 500+ of population but they're extremely nice! They made us a foreigner felt the warmth of being home. I wanted to go back to Adelaide in the first place, but I fell in love with this place. It is quiet, peaceful and as I said, you could find the simplest form of happiness here=) I guess I'll love the work here, no time frame and enjoying the time with the residents by providing a proper care. The residents were lovely too. Eventhough there is not much happening stuff in this small town, but there's is some interesting case too=) Since it's a quiet place, I guess both me and Debrah spend most of our time in the kitchen other than hospital, on the bed and on the phone. We're feeding ourself fairly good at the moment, we can see signs of putting on weight already. We can't believe that we were actually invited to attend the hospital fundraising ball. We didn't want to attend that at first as we have got no proper clothes. We didn't expect to attend such a function during our placement. But we ended up having nurses trying to organise dress and shoes for us so that we'll look good at the ball=D How sweet is that! I felt that I looks like a red walking lantern, but everyone else think I looks great on the ball=) Thanks guys! Thanks Pauline for the lovely dress. I had lots of fun at the ball. It's time to DE-STRESS... and that helps a lot! The ball was AWESOME! It is totally different from what I've experience before. I could see how they held an auction to raise fund for the hospital. Everything went well, but I'm totally scared by a stranger who came up sitting beside me and started to talk which he eventually wanted to invite me for a dance. I wish someone could save me, but my dear friend sitting beside me were falling asleep. It's our day off... We've been wanting to have a great jump on the jumping pillow just 2-3 minutes away from the hospital. It's real fun! It's an easy day where we could lay back, have late lunch and sitting in the living room watching TV. It's gonna be another new week again tommorow onwards. The weather is getting cold and I didn't even think about bringing along some winter clothes with me. I guess at this stage I could only rely on blankets and heater.

Nothing much happening this week. It's just another week of placement, manage to see some lumps and bumps which is really interesting. I guess I spent most of my time on skype and over the phone. Phone and internet is the only way to use when you miss someone. Somehow I wish I could stand on my own, the feeling of having to rely on the others make me insecure. At some point, you'll have to realize that there might not be someone there for you when you need them. And that makes you feel awful!


Just figure out I started to draw when I miss someone... I guess I need to get myself a sketch pad=D I had a great talk with a patient in the hospital the other day, having lots of fun when he's trying to tease me. That's actually the greatest and the part that I love the most taking care of an elderly. Laughter is important, and life is too short to be worried about. I learnt a lot from you, thanks for those interesting stories which makes me laugh. I wish you could get well soon and keep going=)