Auf Wiedersehn!

So I may have left it quite late to pack for the next 22 weeks of my life (Heidelberg & Michaelmas!). Slight panic this morning when none of the places we could find had any Euros left to sell! The internship is paid, but I have no idea how/when I'm getting the monies. After some last minute shopping, we had a lovely and surprisingly civilised barbecue:

Thanks to Canon Powershot G11

The rest of the evening was spent trying to stuff as much of my wardrobe into the tiniest suitcase ever imaginable. I'm actually traveling by train tomorrow, so instead of silly airline restrictions, my baggage is basically limited by what I can carry myself. Unfortunately, that's a rather pathetic amount. I find it very odd though that I've managed to fit 12 weeks worth of stuff into one small suitcase and a rucksack, whereas the stuff I bring for a 10 week Cambridge term takes up an entire car! Anyway, hopefully I won't get too lost on my travels tomorrow and still manage to blog somehow. I am pretty certain though that the place I'm staying doesn't have internet, so it may well have to wait till I manage to find some...

British School of Osteopathy

Another early morning today in order to do more PfPC at the British School of Osteopathy. I have no idea how I managed to blag my way from starting off being declined outright to ending up seeing lots of patients and chatting to lots of future bone-crackers, but thank goodness I did. I don't think I'd be able to do any of this in Germany. Like yesterday, very interesting, but this time. I am sure that I don't want to become an osteopath. Nor work in private healthcare for that matter. It's just not for me.

Afterwards, I went for a wander and ended up having a nap on the Southbank:

Thanks to HTC Wildfire Camera

And then was a long-overdue, but unfortunately brief, catch-up with Layla and Shiran. It's quite scary to think I won't be back home until December!

St Francis Hospice

Technically not in Deutschland yet, but this is still somewhere on my Summer to-do list! I spent a morning with the staff of St Francis Hospice today as part of PfP C. It was an absolutely horrendous 1.5 hour journey there, and an even longer trip back as I somehow got lost! On my travels though, I came across this very pretty house:

Thanks to HTC Wildfire Camera

Okay so I admit, the original photo wasn't that pretty, but Photoshop exists for a reason!

Anyway, my visit to the hospice was absolutely fantastic. I can totally see myself going into palliative care - everyone is so nice! It definitely was not what I expected at all - at one point, one of the patients started teaching me how to waltz. Even though she was receiving end of life treatment, her dancing was still a trillion times better than mine. Overall a very lovely morning.