Australia Day 5: Pretending to be a Doctor and Making Ice Cream

Strange fruit that grows on the streets

Today I pretended to be a doctor (or med student) and went to a info lecture series at the Cairns Regional Hospital. Learned about the joys of gonorrhea - quite interesting.
Also learned about lots of random other things like dysuria, PID and got to see lovely pictures of infected genitals (heavy sarcasm in case you couldn't tell). But overall it was informative and I'm glad I went!

After the hospital I learned lots about emergency medicine (what to do if you're shot, get stabbed, etc) and watched a finger amputation on Youtube.
Why did I do this? I don't know, I've never seen an amputation before, so I wanted to at least be familiar with what it looks like.

Afterwards we went on an absurdly epic trek to get all the materials we need to make ice cream. Could we have just bought ice cream from the store for pretty much zero effort? Yeah, duh, but where's the fun in that?

High school science class throwback via
making ice cream in ziplock bags
(using salt to lower the freezing temperature of ice and
all that fun stuff).

No parking spot? No problem.