Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Scratch that

That is what my day used to be like. We found out today that we've been banned from the Huddersfield Royal Infirmary and all hospitals and clinics in the area. That's right ladies and gentleman staff has been informed that we are not to step into the hospital. I guess it is illegal in England to be registered at two different universities, and since we got ID cards for University of Huddersfield (even though we aren't registered for any classes) that counts plus BYU. We were supposed to have had some kind of visas or something. I don't even know, it's a huge mess. But they told Erin, our instructor, that we weren't to enter the hospital or any other clinics in ''the trust,'' not even to say goodbye to the staff or give them our thank you gifts that we brought. So no more 5 am wake-up calls :) . But now we aren't entirely sure what we'll be doing for the next week until we leave for Scotland. They said something about attempting to get us into the private sector but since it's such short notice that might not work either....Oh boy!

Today was fun though. It was Michelle's birthday and we went to Nando's for lunch. It's the only chain restaurant in England but it was SUPER delicious!! We then went shopping for a bit. While we were in the store there was a lady that was working there that asked where we were from. She was from Chicago and she was so happy to talk with us, for almost an hour! It was great. She told us all of the horror stories she's ran into with the health care system here. It was nice to hear that we aren't the only ones that thinks it stinks. But she told us things we should go do in Scotland and around here and when we go down to London. It was nice to talk with her.

We then found a mall in town that we hadn't seen before, I got some cute Vans for only £10 and now we are home getting ready to head out to a cricket game. But I think it might get cancelled because it looks like rain. What a surprise!

1 comment:

MedSchoolWife said...

Yeah everyone in my group LOVED Nando's, but all I could have was their veggie burger, and I wasn't impressed. But it's a fun atmosphere! And you should all get an endless frozen yogurt. Yuuummmy.