Conkers :)
As usual, it feels as though time is beginning to gallop away from me! I'm now into the third week of the semester and our assignments have been released. This means I have only 6 weeks to go until my first deadline and 9 weeks untill all the other essays have to be in (four in total). In the meantime, I have barely begun to get stuck into the required course reading and I have a whole week of seminars coming up in two weeks time. My only consolation at this point is that I am at least firmly on track to complete the 100 clinical training hours required for my clinical practice model, having completed 39hrs so far. By the end of this week, I will have completed more than 50, which will hopefully leave me with more time later in the semester to blitz these essays and get all the reading done..
Grasses, Woking Park
Anyway, attending clinic has been a bit like being back at work again. We are expected to dress professionally, which for me means wearing something similar to what I wore in the City, including high heels (how DID I do this every day for so long??!), donning white coats only for the portion of the day in which we see patients (generally between 10:00 and 14:00). It also means a return to the dreaded commute! Having tried aiming for a 09:30 arrival in Stratford, which resulted in cattle-truck like conditions all the way from leafy Surrey to the East End, I decided - never again! So now I get up at 06:00 on Thursdays and Fridays and arrive at campus at 08:00. Having been introduced to the local "greasy spoon" by our clinic supervisor, I now find myself every morning before clinic on what could easily be the set of "Eastenders", feeling very much the 'posh chick' as I order my mug of builders' tea and egg on toast :) A filling breakfast by the way, is absolutely necessary before clinic, as we students often don't get released for lunch until the last patient's medicine has been dispensed and they have been sent happily on their way. This is sometimes not achieved until nigh on 14:30!
On a musical note, I had pleasure of performing the Messiah with my choir (and friends) at St. John on Bethnal Green this last Saturday. The soloists were absolutely superb, as usual, and I think we're making a great sound as a choir at the moment too, which makes it all the more fun. which reminds me.. Please do put Friday 23rd November in your diaries for our Verdi Requiem at Southwark Cathedral. It's going to be fantastic :)
Autumn scene
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