Clinical Alternative

On Monday we had a presentation to give to the people who are in charge of our placement here. They are faculty from the University of Huddersfield (Lauren and Bev). We presented on the health care system in the U.S. and on our nursing education and role. We discussed similarities and differences between the U.S. and the U.K. We had probably about a 15-20 minute presentation prepared that turned in to about 2 hours! They were very interested and had questions for us and input. So it turned out pretty well! Before and after our presentation, we had a tour of the Calderdale hospital. It is a much nicer and newer facility than the one we were in for the first 2 weeks. Hopefully if students come back here, they can have clinical time in this hospital. They had a great labor and delivery unit that we visited.

They are literally obsessed with infection control. They have these stop signs and "Stop. Gel. Go." signs all over the place! Don't mess with the matron!
Please note the seriousness in our faces regarding this matter.


Dressed up in our polos and khaki's ready to give our presentation

Each of our interpretations of khaki...

These are offices in the hospital. Not too organized.

Rain, Rain, Go Away

Friday, we headed north to visit the beautiful Lake District. We had a hostel booked and were planning to spend the night and spend 2 whole days there. But it was raining and so cold!!! My jeans were soaked up to my calves by the end of the day and it was just not going the way we wanted it to. Most everything we wanted to do was closed on account of the rain. Erin, Christina, and I decided we weren't going to stay the night (Erin never was going to). I just thought it wasn't worth it to be wet, cold, and miserable and spend the money. We did go see where William Wordsworth lived and where he was buried. We headed home after that. Christina and I left together and we barely missed the 4:00 train so we had to wait another hour to get out of there. We just killed time in a grocery store. We got on the train and ended up waiting a whole hour more because the train in front of us was broken down. When we finally got back to Huddersfield we missed the bus so we had to wait another 40 minutes for the bus. Just not really our day!!! What we did see of the lake district was really pretty though :)

Reading our books in the train on the way to the Lake District

Leprechaun leaps!

Standing in front of William Wordsworth's home

Rare and out-of-print books displayed at the William Wordsworth gift shop

Quaint river lined with cafe's and shops

Christina being cute!

Carianne being funny!

Can I live here some day??? But without the rain please. Thanks.

Table Table

So on Saturday (the day we were supposed to spend at the Lake District) was just a day of relaxation. I slept in, went running with Carianne, read a little, talked to my family on skype, talked to Ash Hill Bri Kyler and Ashlee's fam on skype, and went out to eat at a place called The Aspley Table Table. It was good food and a good time!

Boots and Belts

Our daily bus ride!

Lovely Sunday

Yesterday (Sunday) we stayed after church to practice our song we are singing in sacrament meeting next Sunday. So we were waiting for the bus inside (because it was raining) and it only comes once an hour. The bishop and his wife were leaving and offered us a ride home. We squeezed into their car and on the way home they invited us over for dinner. They are the nicest people! We love them so much!! They are so good to us. We had a delicious dinner. We had chicken with onion sauce, yorshire pudding, potatoes, corn, peas, parsnips, stuffing balls, and gravy that you put on everything. We had 3 different desserts! They also had the elders over so we had a lot of people there eating.

This is us smashed in their car!

We were killing time waiting for Bishop McEwan (have no clue what the spelling is) to come pick us up for dinner.

Us girls, Bishop and his wife, and the Elders

Dinner clean up


This is us on our very first Sunday in Huddersfield. We get there about 20 minutes early because of the bus system set up. We were DEAD tired from the jet lag. It was about 3AM Utah time when we were sitting here!

GREAT BRITAIN'S MOST WANTED

Heidi Hafen
Michelle Aucoin
Christina Jemison
Carianne King
Candice Rountree


So we have run in to some trouble here in Huddersfield, England. Our instructor met with the people in charge of us being here and they have been very worried that they will be put in jail because of us. They think we need a working visa, but we had this all figured out with the British Consolate before we came. We had letters of approval and everything when we entered the country. The other problem lies within registration. We are registered through BYU's London center and here at Huddersfield as students, and I guess it's against the law to be registered in two places at once. So consequently, we are not allowed to step foot again into the Royal Infirmary Hospital or any health care setting that has to do with the 'trust.' We have been laughing our heads off at this whole mess!!! We had to turn in our ID cards and they wouldn't even let us go say good bye to the people we have been working with. We can't even go as visitors!!! Since it has calmed down a little bit, they agreed to let us go next Thursday to say thank you and good bye. We have been trying to set up some things for next week that are in the community, and possibly some private hospital tours or something. It was all so sudden and crazy and serious! So we took advantage and went shopping all day today!



Yesterday was Michelle's birthday!! Yay! We celebrated and ate at Nando's. When I originally thought I was going to Australia, my friend Jase (he went on his mission to Australia) recommended Nando's to me. They have it here too! So we thought we would try it out. It was definitely a hit with us girls! We went shopping for a little while after we ate and we met a girl working at one of the stores who was from Chicago. She has lived over here for 2 1/2 years. She married an Englishman and they ended up here. She told us her very negative feelings about the health care system here. We were glad to know that we arent the only ones who don't think very highly of it. She was very friendly and we enjoyed talking to her.
Last night we went to a cricket game. It was our driver, Phil's, son who was playing. It was interesting and I'm glad we went but it was FREEZING cold and I didn't know really what was going on and it got a little old kinda quick... but here are some pics from the day.
NANDO'S


BIRTHDAY GIRL!!




They had quite the collection of yummy sauces


Erin, Carianne, Candice


Michelle, Heidi, Christina


A little shopping after lunch :)


Cricket game. See how cold I was with my scarf wrapped around my head?!?!
(Castle Hill is right above where they played. You can see it in the bottom right picture.)

New Jargon

A&E (Accidents and Emergency) = ER (Emergency Room)
Bits = parts (of anything)
Theatre = (OR) Operating Room
Ta = thanks, hello, goodbye (kind of like cheers!)
Loads = lots, many
Holiday = vacation
Spirals = curly fries

There have been two things that I totally take for granted in the US

1. Drinking Fountains: they are everywhere in the US!! Any building you go in to and even outside at places you go they have them all over the place. England has to be a dehydrated country!! Drinking fountains are no where to be found. I definitely do not get enough to drink. Good drinking water is hard to come by unless you just buy it.
2. Garbage cans: these seem to dot the US as well, but not here!



We met a kid at church who is very kind to us. He gives us rides and invites us to things, and he is just nice. He served his mission with Nate Bybee and Nick Demille, so I thought that was pretty cool!! I love the small world and the connections in the church!!! He was driving a few of us back from a fireside (which we were half the congregation, only 7 people showed up!!!) and he took us on a detour to Castle Hill. It is soo cool up there! It's this little castle thing on a hill that you can see all of Huddersfield in a 360 degree circle. It is really cool. It's pretty close to where we live. Me and Carianne wanted to run there yesterday and we thought it was only about 2 1/2 miles there, but we misjudged a little... We are guessing it was at least 7 miles round trip. My legs are pretty sore today. We got a couple pictures from Sunday, but not from our run.

Fountains Abbey

So today we started off our day with bus trouble... We thought there was a bus coming near us but there wasn't so be ended up flagging another bus down! We didn't think he was going to let us on because he was just shaking his head and wouldn't open the door for a minute!!! It was hilarious! This is the second time we have had to do it in one week!!! So we kind of just make our own bus stops. We treked to Fountains Abbey today. It's not way far away but the whole transportation thing was a mess so it took us FOREVER to get there. We ended up spending some time in Ripon waiting for another bus, but that turned out to be fun too. We just had to laugh at the unfortunate events that occurred today (waving the bus down, frustrating bus schedules, it rained on us at Fountains Abbey). We ate at a pub in Ripon, which was actually pretty good food. There was a football (soccer) game on and people started flooding in and it was getting so packed! There was also some kind of world war II something or other going on in the middle of town so we went there to check it out. They had a plane there and old cars and old music playing. There were other stands set up too.

We only had 1 1/2 hours to spend at Fountains Abbey because of the way the buses worked out, so we were a little rushed. It was so cool and so pretty! We tried to take a lot of pics, but there was a time crunch too so we had to be careful. Fountains Abbey is an old monestary. In 1132 thirteen monks came to this valley and founded this abbey, which became one of the richest in Europe. At the other end of the valley there is a water garden created in the 1700's called the Studley Royal.

This is the pub where we ate "ye Hornblower Tavern"

Me and Michelle inside the pub with our bucket of spicy chicken and chips. Notice the football fans behind us.

We found more telephone booths :)

This is the world war II plane on display in Ripon

This is what the view we had when we first walked in to the valley



The next few pictures are inside the Monestary



Beautiful shots surrounding the monestary


Christina and I inside a tunnel


Behind me is the water gardens (Studley Royal)