Accents

I've just eaten a lot of kangaroo steak and I actually feel sick. It does taste good though, looks like beef, similar texture and a slightly gamey taste. Nice. From a nutrition point of view it is low in saturated fat, high in monounsaturates and high in Iron. Pretty lean in other words.

So, i've done two days in the Peter Mac Cancer hospital in central Melbourne. Its been good so far but they won't let me anywhere near patients yet. Not because they think i'm going to harm them (although that is a possibility) but because I haven't had Chicken Pox as a kid. I'm told its because of all the immuno-compromised patients at risk...but it's pretty obvious they are just being a bit anal about it. So i'm stuck in an office until Friday treating "virtual patients" with my supervisor. lol.

I'm still going through the small talk phase with all the resident dietitians in the department, telling them where i'm from and how i got the chance to come out here, where I live blah blah...

When I meet new people who don't know me a recurring comment seems to keep coming up, for years now. Apparently I don't have an English accent despite having lived in a leafy suburb in NW London for my entire life. And before you say it, no it's not an Australian one. So far i've had South African, Irish, Australian, New Zealand, and just "foreign" after giving a presentation at uni. Today, however, tops it all. Someone said I had an American accent! Anyone who knows me will find this as ridiculous as I did.

Anyway i'm off to the gym and sauna now to work off some of that Kangaroo. Its so handy having a gym 3 floors below my room, no excuses!