W1B-013 Student - Friend-0.txt
Kevin O'Neill # 24, Beacon Crt. 61 Hill St. Perth W.A. 6000 Australia

Dear Ben, Hi Ben I thought I 'd write about this time of the year so as to give you a refreshing break from the turgid pile of exam papers that must be adorning your desk about now. As the recent request for a reference lets you know I have eventually found a job. As is my style I seem to have dscovered the new frontier just as it has finished squandering it's wealth and is sliping into a 70's style Irish recession. Over the last three months I have applied for the few jobs on offer but my visa restricted me a great deal. At one point I had a locum position but the funding was withdrawn Ð does that sound familiar? However it never dribbles but it pisses out of the heavens as they say in Dublin, once the first offer came through it was followed by six more in the next four days! My only guess is that next years budgets have just been cleared and can only acommodate temporary positions. The job I 've accepted is for three months and as you can see from the letter from the Royal Perth Hospital will be a challenge and a learning experience.

I 'm still looking into studying medicine in the States or indeed here. Things look good here if I can become a resident, then it will not cost me anything and I may be eligible for grants. So I 'm applying for a permanent visa at the moment. The chances are that I 'll have to return to Ireland in the Autumn to apply to the embassy there as the law has recently been changed making it difficult to apply from here. Experience in a hospital setting will be a great advantage in any interviews I may have to do. I think I need to accumulate as many accountable factors in my favor, as for whatever reasons my college academic performance most probably will not be good enough on it's own. In autumn I am going to sit the American College Admissions Test but for know I need to get a copy of "my transcript" Ð I 'm hoping you know what that is. I 've enclosed a paragraph referring to it in the hope you may enlighten me. I have copies of my course format Ð lecture and clinical hours. I also need a copy of a transcript of my academic results while in college, perhaps this is what they mean? I would appreciate if you could find the time to send whatever it is you think they want and my academic record. Thanks.

So far my travels have been a great experience, eating an unusual ethnic fruit in Singapores China Town that was as close as I 've come to cannabalism since living in Rooms in college; searching the Out-Back for half the night on horse back for my older brother whose sense of direction was directly proportional to the horses IQ and this horse was no Mr. Edd and the stories could go on. The weather is fabulous and the beaches superbe so while the summer lasted things were quite leisurely. Now you 'll be pleased to know the weather has turned, it was a cool 26 ̊ C today. In September we are going to tour the country and Thialand if money and plans work out. I 'll send you a post card from somewhere along the trail. Until then I hope you and your family have a good summer.

Thanks for your help. Yours sincerely Kevin O'Neill

Excuse the typing but I seem to have a blind typewritter
