I don’t have much to say about my 10 weeks back in Australia, post-wedding, without Brent. I was living out of boxes and subletting a room in Penrith from a fourth-year student which ended up being a bit of a nightmare. It was regularly 45 degrees Celsius, my room was on the second floor of a house and there was no air-conditioning. To top it off, I was rooming with a 18-year old “westie” who was a total disaster.
Luckily, the guys I was renting from left me their car, which made it pretty convenient to go into the city and visit with friends on the weekends. Janice, Amy and I also had a chance to see the famous annual Mardis Gras Parade held in March. I’ve never been to the Gay Pride Parade in Toronto, but I imagine that it’d be much the same. One of our dentistry friends has an apartment across from Hyde Park which overlooks the parade route, so we were also able to avoid the crowds! It was actually a pretty neat parade, and I was glad I got to see it at least once during my time here.
School was also pretty interesting for those two months. I was doing my Critical Care Rotation (which consisted of 4 weeks in emergency, 2 weeks in anesthetics and 2 weeks in the Intensive Care Unit). Because of my living situation, I ended up spending as much time as possible at the hospital (even including some weekends in the air-conditioned common room working on our wedding photo album). Needless to say, I was VERY happy for the rotation to be over and to get back to Ontario for my Family Medicine Rotations.
Luckily, the guys I was renting from left me their car, which made it pretty convenient to go into the city and visit with friends on the weekends. Janice, Amy and I also had a chance to see the famous annual Mardis Gras Parade held in March. I’ve never been to the Gay Pride Parade in Toronto, but I imagine that it’d be much the same. One of our dentistry friends has an apartment across from Hyde Park which overlooks the parade route, so we were also able to avoid the crowds! It was actually a pretty neat parade, and I was glad I got to see it at least once during my time here.
School was also pretty interesting for those two months. I was doing my Critical Care Rotation (which consisted of 4 weeks in emergency, 2 weeks in anesthetics and 2 weeks in the Intensive Care Unit). Because of my living situation, I ended up spending as much time as possible at the hospital (even including some weekends in the air-conditioned common room working on our wedding photo album). Needless to say, I was VERY happy for the rotation to be over and to get back to Ontario for my Family Medicine Rotations.
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