week forty eight - Perth Debrief

so here we arrive to the last week of BAS! we landed in Perth on friday in the later evening. feeling overwhelmed, cold and slightly nauseous i got to the house were i was to spend the week and went to bed. the next morning felt a little better getting to sleep till i wanted to and not having to answer to an alarm clock. me and some girls went to lunch at the base and felt so overwhelmed that we had some toast and then left again. its strange cause people are excited your back and want to know how it was but when the question is asked ‘how was it?’ how can i truly answer that? it was eight months of ups and downs so overall, ‘outreach was challenging, i love midwifery and want to keep doing it’ was my response.

we had the weekend off and were all able to try and ‘settle’ in a bit more. its weird cause things that seem so trivial have a whole new meaning when you come back from being in a foreign land for so long. like going to a grocery store.... so many choices, so expensive and very overwhelming! even the climate change. its quite chilly hear and it rained the first whole part of the week. i got to spend the saturday night at Naomi’s house which was nice. but then monday morning we got right into debrief week.

debrief week was far more chill than i expected, we shared as a group how we grew and our highlights of outreach and what we were thinking of doing in the future. we then prayed for one another. on thursday night we all went out for dinner to a really nice grill and then friday we talked about ‘going home’ said a few goodbyes and that was it. that evening some of us went out for food and just to hang out. saturday was full of goodbyes and then sunday me and Naomi left as well to her house. and that was it.

i have a week and Nai’s and then we both head to the east coast to visit friends and just relax. so this ends my midwifery adventures for now. its sad and i do miss delivering babies and being with the moms but i know this is not the end.

thanks for reading!