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I am The Real Tom

Is that a watermelon in your Eye?

About Me

G'day I'm just a simple Australian boy, with simple Australian interests. I love Africa, it is the most wonderful continent with the most wonderful people!! But this is supposed to be about me. I am a student of nursing, which is what I love to do. I want to nurse in the most remote corners of Australia and Africa to those who need it most, it is really exciting!!I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

My Interests

I'm quite interesting, I like music. I'm a volunteer with the St John Ambulance, I enjoy live music. I love to meet and talk to all sorts of interesting people from all walks of life

I'd like to meet:

You and your friends. Pretty much anyone with an interest in people. I really don't know, I'm just happy to meet anyone really

Music:

All kinds, Folk, jazz, rock, but not progressive rock, thats just strange, ska is good, so is jazz. I'm enjoying Miles Davis' Kind of Blue album at the moment. I've also been listening to Xavier Rudd, the Herd, Ben Harper, AFI, and a bit of Jack Johnson and Midnight Oil

Movies:

The Constant Gardener is quite wonderful, let me tell you! Yellow Submarine is a dead set spin out! Jaberwockie, I enjoy the Micheal Palin Travel series, particularly Sahara.

Television:

Spicks and specks, I don't really watch a lot of telly

Books:

I enjoyed The Power of One, the sound track to that film is awesome! it sends tingles down my spine every time I listen to it! but this section is about Books, and since I don't really read much, It should be quite empty.

Heroes:

In the words of Enrique Iglesias, I can be your Hero Baby! Vic, my stepdad, he is pretty cool

My Blog

Almost there

I'm ready to go, I'm ready to leave here and start my work. I want to leave here. I want to get out into the world and do the work I'm sure I have to do. Not yet. I can't go yet. I must finish my stu...
Posted by I am The Real Tom on Thu, 09 Nov 2006 03:44:00 PST

thats how I feel

why does this hurt so?I know now it won't work, but I feel like I've been kicked in the guts by the back end of a bus? How can someone you cared for and tried to help be so brash and hurtful? I'm a th...
Posted by I am The Real Tom on Sun, 03 Sep 2006 07:14:00 PST

Thats a relief...

I lost my first Patient today. I mean other patients have died while I have been on shift, or shortly before I have started, however, this was the first patient that I have been directly involved...
Posted by I am The Real Tom on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 02:41:00 PST

My Passion

Can I, a simple boy from Australia make a difference? I hope so. I was watching a program on the telly this evening. It was about the AIDS epidemic in Africa, paying particular attention to a small to...
Posted by I am The Real Tom on Tue, 11 Jul 2006 06:57:00 PST

What impact?

When a rock lands on the sand it leaves a mark where it lands, but when it lands in the water, the ripples can travel quite a distance. What is a life worth? what can one person do? Am I bigger than m...
Posted by I am The Real Tom on Wed, 28 Jun 2006 06:50:00 PST

Kampala, Watoto, and stuff

Well, It had been a full fortnight up to this time. Working, flying, out doing stuff, and even on our rest break, no sleep in. It was coming to the close of the adventure. We all met up in Kampala to...
Posted by I am The Real Tom on Fri, 16 Jun 2006 04:27:00 PST

A question of Grace

'You preach, but how do you live?' Tolstoy was once asked. He replied 'I do not preachand that I am not able to preach, although I passionately wish to. I can only preach through my actions, and my ac...
Posted by I am The Real Tom on Thu, 08 Jun 2006 06:37:00 PST

Off to Uganda

Well, off to Uganda, flying Kenya Scareways! We had the privelidge of flying in one of their remaining 737's. They apparently have 2 now, but prior to that they held a proud fleet of 3 737's, that was...
Posted by I am The Real Tom on Mon, 05 Jun 2006 06:15:00 PST

Safari

Hmmm. 4 days in the middle of nowhere, no running water, one is left with a bit of a smell, fortunately we all smelt, so noone could complain. At the first available time we all showered. It was wonde...
Posted by I am The Real Tom on Wed, 31 May 2006 10:23:00 PST

Grief

Grief, we all exprience it from time to time. Some more than others. A death, a breakup. Loss of job, a loss of self worth, often through the actions of others. What is grief? Is it simply a deep sen...
Posted by I am The Real Tom on Sun, 28 May 2006 08:46:00 PST