Thursday #30 – for the 4th morning in a row, I woke
up this Thursday at 4.30. Since arriving
in Melbourne on Sunday night, I seem incapable of sleeping through the night –
it doesn’t help that 4am coincides nicely with Dominican afternoon and DTM
getting drunk at the cricket and texting me.
After going back to sleep for another couple of hours, I got up and had
a shower whilst The Italian made me eggs for breakfast. The apartment may be tiny and our room so
small we fall over trying to stand still between the bed and the wall; but I could
certainly get used to having someone cook me breakfast and dinner.
After breakfast we hopped on a tram like the good
Melbourners we are and headed off to ACO to get our clinic on. Despite being the 4th day of our 2
week placement, this Thursday was our first day seeing patients due to us
somehow fluking a cruisy timetable and a public holiday. We were a little scared after hearing horror
stories about the supervisors and the marking down here, but after my first two
patients I was feeling invincible, sitting on an average of 7.75/10 when we
need an average of 7 to pass. We headed
up to the staffroom and enjoyed some pesto chicken rolls (pesto was making its 3rd
of many appearances in our week since The Italian had cooked up pesto gnocchi
on Monday and pesto chicken on Wednesday) with fried rice on the side. No one admitted it but we’re pretty sure
everyone up there had some serious food envy going on.
After lunch it was back to seeing patients and discovering
that I am a far better optometrist in the morning than I am in the
afternoon. Turns out I’m not so
invincible after all as I watched that average drop. With one patient cancelling on me I headed up
to the library to make use of the free wifi and go on a facebook commenting
spree since The Vice President had put up photos of her recent trip to Cuba. When The Italian finished up we headed home
and she cooked us up fettuccini with pink sauce. I was hoping for a more Italian name and am
still not sure what she meant when she complained it “didn’t really taste pink”
but I do know that she made her sauce from scratch and got a whole lot of pasta
stuck to the bottom of the saucepan in the process.
After dinner we watched some TV, enjoyed our nightly tea and Tim Tam and headed to bed ready to do it all over again on Friday. Not the most fun Thursday I’ve had but a
different one, particularly temperature wise, as I found myself in freezing Melbourne
for uni – a shock to the system after beaching it up in Barbados.
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