In Te Aroha

I'm now on the north island staying in a little town called Te Aroha. It's right by a mountain and is actually really pretty! On Monday I went to Hobbiton, which was amazing! So much fun! Then I still had some time to kill so I hiked around a bit on the mountain and it was so pretty. 

This new practice is pretty cool. It's really big and they have lots of branches relatively close by so I've been to 3 now and there's another in Te Aroha that I may visit at some point. It's the end of repro season up here so I've been doing some CIDR programmes catching the last non-cyclers for the AI people. I also got to see a sequestrum removed from a heifers leg which was really cool! I wanted to see more but our grand idea of a TICA type anaesthetic was dashed when we realised that we didn't bring a giving set, and me giving her 20ml bonuses of the infusion wasn't really working out, so I became th anaesthetist. Which was good in a different rate so now I Am better at field anaesthetic monitoring. Also the sequestrum we removed was 11.5cm! Bananas! I've been vaccinating some calves as well and today I got to do a liver biopsy, so that was pretty cool. Today it's raining, typical! The Internet where I'm staying has been a little slow so that's been slightly irritating since I'm trying to work when I get back every night, but oh well! I need to figure out what I'm doing this weekend, probably something close by.

Hopefully the weather holds out!