swimming and chilling :)

Had a chilled out day, went swimming with my cousins although all the fun stuff like the flumes and rapids were shut so we ended up just floating about and having a girly chat. Have also been trying to organise a day in the maternity department of my local hospital (as part of my paramedic course!) so that i can shadow a midwife and hopefully see a cesarean section but have so far just been passed from pillar to post, will be more pesistant tomorrow!

Whenever i travel to another country i try and get a photo of a local ambulance there and have been working on a scrapbook over the last couple of years to compile all these pictures. So far i've got photos of the river ambulance in venice, the bicycle and stretcher-trailer ambulance in rural malawi and ambulances from Argentina, Ireland, the USA, Italy and Poland. I am therefore always on the lookout for medical themed embellishments ('Me and my big ideas' and 'Sandylion' offer a good selection :) these also double up as good embellishments for pages in the scrapbook i'm making for my boyfriend (who is at medical school) and for thankyou cards when i've been on a hospital placement.