I did try to rest during the day before another night shift, but it was stinking hot. An Australian had told me that the really blistering temperatures had finished, and we would only have high twenties and low thirties now. He is never going to be a reliable weatherman.
Today it was 39 again, and even with a fan in my room, it is quite hard to rest. There wasn't even the afternoon cooling sea breeze (it's known here as the Fremantle Doctor because Fremantle "Freo" is the harbour and when the wind blows from the west it blows through Freo first.
There was a breeze but it was blowing in directly from the east and right off the desert. No relief at all.
I am writing this at about 4 in the morning at work, and the outside temperature is still in the high 20's. I hope that it doesn't warm up to much during the day tomorrow.
Oh, I am at work. I'm working with a Canadian Paramedic tonight, and she has only been here working for about a year, so it is a little like the blind leading the blind. The actually treating the sick people isn't a problem, as people get sick the same way all over the world, it's the location of the hospitals, and the finer points that we are bumbling around at.
She's lived here with her husband for about 3 years, but Emily still was saying that she isn't completely comfortable with the heat here yet. I guess that when you are used to living in Canada, where is is very cold a lot of the time, coming to a place were it is very hot a lot of the time will take a while to get used to.
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