I can Bearly Believe it’s Over

Today was such a busy day with us trying to explore as much of London as we can within eight hours. Starting off strong we all went to the Florence Nightingale Museum. It was quite a beautiful gallery and had a lot of new information for me to absorb. Although we missed the school children’s…

Incoming call: Late Nights in London

This morning was our last set of lectures at BCU and it certainly did not disappoint. Starting off strong we had a wonderful session about Cardiovascular Disease(CVD) and its connection to smoking. Heading into this meeting I knew that cardiovascular disease was a large percentage of deaths but I did not know that it was…

Bye-Bye Birmingham!

Our last full day in Birmingham was a great day. We rode the bus to the Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Trust and had an amazing chat with a few of their nurses and educators on the site. In that session we learned about how their mental health program runs and how service users can…

Sixth Forms and Presentations

Today was the day of presentations!! I have been so nervous for them the whole time we have been in Birmingham and I can’t believe it’s already here. Starting off our day we went to the magnificent Joseph Chamberlain sixth form college that prepared students to take their A levels. On Friday they were taking…

Oxford Bound

Starting our day off we meet nice and early to catch our bus that will drive us to Blenheim Palace. After a two-hour journey we arrived at the palace and met our wonderful tour guide Tim once again. We began our tour with a walk through the staterooms. These rooms are all so very large…

Black Heritage, Bulls, and Butterflies

Today has been such an educational day all around! We walked over to BCU and started off the morning with a lecture from Marcia and then followed that one up with one from Nurse Joan. Both of these women are highly intelligent in their fields, I could listen to them talk for hours. Marcia is…