Greetings earthlings!
We arrived here on 21. February and despite exhausting trip everything went well. Although, we have to admit, one of four wheels on Katrina's super expensive suitcase came off during transportation! On our first week, we stayed at a hostel named the Traveller's House which is
located on the main street - Rua Augusta, right next to Rossio. Since we didn't find an apartment as quickly as we thought, we had to stay there a bit longer than we firstly planned - but thanks to our portuguese friends a.k.a tutors from our school (Estesl) we managed to find a decent place to stay. Our practice started next week and we were lucky enough to get a hospital that is located just 20 minutes walking from our flat. Name of the first hospital we are working at is IPO (Instituto Português de Oncologia) and the patients are 99% with oncologycal problems - we get to see mostly respiratory patients and also post-operative breast cancer patients. We have to be at the hospital 5 hours a day 4 days per week, because on Wednesdays interns from our school are attending their practices there. Both of our supervisors speak english, so we are managing quite well. Twice a week we have our language course and we have to admit that we find portuguese a very difficult language to learn. By the end of both practices we have to make reports about two patients and one of them we have to present to our teachers at school; also we have to write down general information about every day we have spent in a hospital. Luckily we get to do it in english.
So everything's well and we are very happy here.
Beijinhos!
Katrina and Veronika
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