loving Borders + gp + new flat

Earlier on before term begins, there were lots of uncertainties and little bits here & there that kept me worrying...

and now, one week has past, surprisingly everything is actually alright, better than I thought.

Borders isn't as bad, although there're definitely more sheeps and cows I've met than human. it felt like isle of skye to a certain extent, but of course minus the strong wind bit. the 2 hours bus rides down reminds me very much of the movie 'stardust' - the low stone fences, widespread greenness, mild hills with oak trees spreading far out... luckily i'm there in the summer time, if not come to think about living in one whole house with 4 empty rooms by myself without the sun actually set at 11pm is gonna be so scary. my neighbour's kids are my only friends now, the two little girls one named Daisy another one... errm... forgot dy. she's too little to talk la. it's so sweet to come home every evening and see two kids playing around in the garden cycling their mini bike and laughing. now it feels like a real home.

GP practice is in this mini town called Selkirk, which is 20 minutes bus ride away from the borders general hospital accom... and there's only one bus going into Selkirk every hour. so if i miss one, will definitely be running late for the clinics. also without anyone there to wake me up on time, Gee! i'm becoming so disciplined these days ;).


on the 8am bus, i'm always the only passenger and even the bus uncle can recognise me now every morning.

at the back of the gp practice. even at normal lunch time, the street is all quiet without many moving vehicles. yalar what to do, a town with only 5500 inhabitants. I suspect almost everyone in town knows each other.

the road I walk down every evening at 4.30 to take bus back to the Borders GH.

old people here are extremely friendly and this town is really not that busy. only one street has shops and outside the town square, there're only houses seperated by widespread farms.

like this.


moi room in BGH.

everyone in the gp is so far very nice and kind. duno how long my liking for gp can last lah, but things are by far looking good. maybe for medicine, or perhaps also other occupations too, before we can really enjoy it, we just need to learn the rules by hard. in this case, study hard n do portfolios!~

that's all for now, time to leave for borders! adios till next weekend ;)

updates: Matt is coming to Borders this week!! so, no more one person dinner! =)