Medical Elective in the Pacific Islands

Set off from Heathrow fairly early this morning on the first leg of my journey. I've never done any solo travelling outside of the UK before so I was fairly apprehensive, but the flight was pretty unremarkable and I got some good tips from the girl next to me about what was and wasn't worth doing in Singapore. Arriving in Changi My flight arrived in Singapore at around 5:30am, so I'd booked in advance to spend four hours in a small room in the Terminal 3 arrivals area. It was about £60, but for that I got an extra two and a half hours of sleep, a nice hot shower and a cooked breakfast before starting my day which was completely worth it! I didn't want to have to carry my heavy bags around with me all day so I left both my main backpack and (most) of my carry-on in the luggage store in T3. That meant I just had to carry a small tote with all my stuff for the next two days with me, which was a lot kinder on my shoulders! To get around the city, I bought a tourist

Hi, I'm Jenny a medical student going into my final year of medicine at Cambridge and this is my elective blog. I'm headed out to Suva in Fiji (via Singapore), where I'll spend four weeks in paediatrics with my friends Maria and Ellie, and then on to Nukuʻalofa in Tonga for three weeks of general medicine.  Fingers crossed I don't die, hate it, or end up way too sunburnt.