Our trip is almost coming to an end. An it is a bitter sweet thing. I love it here but I miss my family and friends. Today was another early morning. We headed toward the Parliament building. It is huge might I say. This is also where Big Ben is. Parliament is made up of the house of lords and the house of commons. The house of lords is red while the house of commons is green. I'd prefer to be in the house of commons because they actually get paid unlike the lords who just get a 300 pound allowance. After leaving this building we took a short walk to the London Memorial Hospital. Here we went and saw the F.N. statue. Supposedly if you rubbed the lamp of the statue one would receive good luck. Therefore, I had to rub the lamp. Then we went to the hospital's chapel. The chapel was very nice and larger than I expected. Then we headed to the F.N. museum. This museum was kind of cool. In order to hear the audio in the museum each person needed a stethoscope. There was also a board that F.N. came up with. She came up with 40 words that came from breath. Like heat and heart. We only came up with 34, which was 10 more than last years group. Next we headed to the large London Eye. Which was essentially a large ferris wheel. It was so cool going up! You could see for miles! All the girls went up and survived. Some of them were very nervous and did not want to go up ! But they all did. I got some cool pics and hopefully I'll get them on the blog here soon. After surviving the eye we went to the largest Nike store in the world. It had so much futbol gear. I wish I could have boughten everything. But I only bought a tee shirt. We ended our night with pub food and a nice pint. Tomorrow is an early morning and were off to France !
Seth / Chas
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London has been amazing so far!! I have had so many exhilarating experiences! The city is not my favorite place, but I think that I am starting to get the hang of it; finding my way around the tube, not getting hit by traffic, and getting through the crowd. The London Eye gave me a bigger picture of London. It was a bit scary; traveling 400 feet above the ground to the very top, but it was an experience I would not want to miss. From the very top of The Eye we could see most of the city. Parliament and Big Ben looked outstanding down below. The image of the entire city was captivating. The Florence Nightingale museum was also very interesting. I broadened my knowledge of nursing even more. At the museum there were pictures of an iron lung and pictures of nurses from both World War I and World War II. These pictures demonstrated nursing knowledge in the past. Yesterday, we went to the museum of the Royal Hospital which also proved to be very fascinating. There were kidney stones bigger than a human bladder on display. I cannot imagine the pain someone had to go through to remove that without anesthetics. Medicine has advanced so much and good thing!! Each one of our days here in England have been packed full of monuments and things to do. I am exhausted, but I have immensely enjoyed my trip and am so lucky to have been able to come! Off to Paris tomorrow; I can hardly wait! Bonjour....
-Megan Foley
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