Craig had some friends over last night. One of them was a Canadian girl who is here on a one year work visa. She's a nurse and is working at one of the local private hospitals. She had some interesting things to say about Perth. I asked her how the private hospital compared to the Canadian public system and I was really surprised to hear her say that the hospital system here is about ten years behind the Canadian system. One example she gave was that the nurse to patient ratio in Canada is 1:4 and here it is 1:10. How is that even possible? Its a private hospital so I'd hate to see what the public system looks like. She also said that back home she is a regular nurse but here she is treated like a head nurse because she has so much more clinical knowledge than the other nurses. Strange. Nursing is a three year undergraduate degree here so maybe that extra year of training in the Canada makes all the difference.
Nice to hear another Canadian perspective on Perth.
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Enchanting. I bet that all of the other nurses are supposed to know what she knows but they are all to busy partying and being australlian to remember what their jobs are.
Do you have any plans for Halloween? Do they do anything like that down uhnda'?
And that is precisely why we cannot get hit by any freaking cars while we are here!!! Creepy crawlers! HAHA!
It was nice to here the good old "Canadian accent" for a change seeing as how we have both started speaking with the aussie one. Holy shit...JUST KIDDING!
:)
If either of you develop medium-to-hard core accents, I will not speak to you until you loose them.
Just kidding.
Maybe.
if either of you are able to replicate in jest or non-jest an australlian accent, you will instantly be entered into the grand prize draw of my 'cool friends' competition.
See in store for details, batteries are not required/included unless required.
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