2 weeks to go!

Welcome to Dave & Mattea abroad!

Lots of people have been asking how best to keep up to date with our travels - so we have decided to open a blog! We're not quite sure what that'll mean - but we'll aim to keep you all uptodate with where we are, what we are up to and and hopefully lots of photos and videos of our adventures!

Its now only 2 weeks until we jump on a plane and head off into the unknown. Some days are a buzz of excitement at the adventures ahead, others a spent worrying about all the practical bits and other quite moments are spent anxious about crime, disease and not knowing what we are doing or why we are there!

For those of you that don't know, we have a basic plan for the year. The first 10 weeks are being spent in Uganda, in a northern town called Gulu. The state hosptial has links with a Manchester hospital and we have been placed in the hospital to work on the medical wards. After Uganda, we are heading to Kosovo. We have been offered a WHO (world health organisation) research project and also some clinical and educational work and the University of Pristina Hospital. The last 6 months will be spent working in conjunction with On-call Africa. OCA is a small but exciting charity that is working to improve healthcare to those in rural Zambia (http://www.oncallafrica.org.uk/). People keep asking us, exactly what we'll be doing when we get there - I guess you'll just have to watch this space...!