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I really really love the scene around my hospital.

Paddington/Oxford Street/Darlinghurst is just amazing; retro 2nd hand bookshops where you can buy paperback murder mysteries for Aud1!, quirky small cafes with amazing varieties of coffee (decaf soy vanilla latte anyone?), posh stand alone boutiques. Thai eateries, Italian restaurants, Sushi corners, Indian takeaways, organic foodshop.
Beautiful parks & quaint little houses. Lots of vibe: UNSW art school & the National Gallery nearby. Unique ancient buildings yet only 10 min walk to the city.

This place has the highest concentration of g@y/alternative lifestyle. Mardi Gras starts here every year. The rainbow colours represents the alternative lifestyle & something new I found out: carrying an umbrella with rainbow colours is a symbol of support.

This is my hospital: modern & sleek
& the classical looking medical education building which is the former hospital building. & they r side by side each other

The park opposite the hospital.

It's just sooo pretty and nice, I love my walks from the bus to the hospital. But the contrast is unbelievable... while it's quite an expensive area because it's in the city it's also a hot spot for drug use and homelessness. While walking 2 days ago, I saw a dead body & police in the park. Which is really such a shame because the hospital was just less than 20 meters away!


And this doesn't even cover my placement location 5 min away from the hospital, which is even more hip & interesting!
The experience is just confronting, amazing & never boring!
today someone OD in the toilet & thankfully someone else realized & saved the man's life.

Yea, basically I'm at a s3x & drug clinic at K1ngscro$ (symbols r deliberate to prevent search engine spammers)

K1ng's Cro$s has for a long time been known to most Australians as the drugs and red light capital of Australia. Most Australians who have visited $ydney at one time or another have wandered through the Cross, if only for a look at how the "other half" live and play. In recent years, however, this sleezy pocket of Sydney has started to evolve, albeit ever so slowly, into a richly vibrant part of the city. The strip clubs, tople$s waitresses, adult bookshops and tacky nightclubs are still there, but small, trendy cafes have sprung up on the fringes of the Cross that are attracting a different type of visitor. The Cross is most sleazy at night, when the bright lights come on and the action hots up. During the day it can look a lot less threatening.

Visitors to the area should be careful, especially at night, as people do get mugged here. The other thing to be careful of is the spuikers outside nightclubs: they can be intimidating and aggressive and have been a problem in recent times.

from: http://www.sydney.com.au/kingsx.htm