Grand Prix Rejects

I am getting excited for mid-ish April as some of my classmates and I will be going to Trinity College Dublin for a student Learning Disabilities nurses conference for two days! Three of us will be going on a road trip from south-west London to there via Snowdonia, and two of us will be returning via Northern Ireland and Scotland, maybe popping into the David Coulthard Museum on the way back to London.

And looking back at the last post, Britain is weird. All of us on my LD nursing course were educated at school in metric, but real world Britain is not like that. Our weight is in stones and pounds (or pounds and ounces if you're a baby), our height is in feet and inches, our roads are measured in miles and yards, and we buy our milk and beer in pints. Even our clothing in in our own units. So when in class the other day, our teacher suggested a good SMART goal for a (fictitious) patient would be to lose 0.5 kg a week for 6 weeks, there was a pause for about 5-10 seconds, until someone said, "Oh, that's about a pound", then everybody realised that that actually did seem realistic and reasonable. But talk about somebody's temperature being either 36.6 C and we have no problem understanding that. And most of us would understand that 100 F would not be good for somebody as well... We are taught in metric, but it really doesn't seem to make sense until 'translated'.

It's only a month before my undergraduate dissertation is handed in, and so although I'll be keeping up with the season, I may not always be present on the chat, or may be late in posting predicament predictions. I'll try my best to be around when I can.

Also I'll make sure to let people know whatever country I ended up in after university's over! Life awaits.

Rob Dylan wrote:It's only a month before my undergraduate dissertation is handed in, and so although I'll be keeping up with the season, I may not always be present on the chat, or may be late in posting predicament predictions. I'll try my best to be around when I can.

Also I'll make sure to let people know whatever country I ended up in after university's over! Life awaits.

So it's Finland! Saved up some cash and I'm moving out into the big wide world of work. Ever since I got back from Sweden I've been looking to live and work abroad again, so here's my big opportunity. I move next week, until Christmas at the very least---here's hoping for the long term

Rob Dylan wrote:

Rob Dylan wrote:It's only a month before my undergraduate dissertation is handed in, and so although I'll be keeping up with the season, I may not always be present on the chat, or may be late in posting predicament predictions. I'll try my best to be around when I can.

Also I'll make sure to let people know whatever country I ended up in after university's over! Life awaits.

So it's Finland! Saved up some cash and I'm moving out into the big wide world of work. Ever since I got back from Sweden I've been looking to live and work abroad again, so here's my big opportunity. I move next week, until Christmas at the very least---here's hoping for the long term

Tervetuloa! May I ask where are you moving? I'm mostly based in Turku so if you're around sometimes we should go grab a drink or two

CarloSpace wrote:Tervetuloa! May I ask where are you moving? I'm mostly based in Turku so if you're around sometimes we should go grab a drink or two

Awesome! Will be in Espoo myself, and I've already chatted with Nuppiz about a meet-up a real Finnish family on the forum.

I'll send you a PM and we can maybe organise something. I've never been to Turku so it is definitely something I'll be doing some time after I arrive.

And basically just to keep people updated on this odyssey, a last-minute job success means I'm staying here in Helsinki I have only a few days to find a new place to live, but at least my life is all excitement for the next little while. Not sure whether this is more appropriate for this forum or for TherapyBox, but wish me luck being temporarily homeless in Finnish winter

Major bump here.

2020 was a crazy year.

Lost my job as a teacher after the place I was working at cut back. So my girlfriend by chance at the same time got a job in Paris, so I followed suit. I ended up finding a master's there, and so I've been living in Paris since August doing a master's here!



I've also discovered I really don't like Paris

Rob Dylan wrote:

I've also discovered I really don't like Paris

It's the old cliché: France is beautiful, shame about the French.

Says someone who did a French degree once upon a time and spent an academic year in Avignon.

The thing is I would absolutely love to travel around and see Lyon or Le Havre or Rouen or the south-west, but we're not even allowed to leave the municipality in Paris. Can't even visit the chateaux down the road Tested out my fitness by walking up to the 2nd level of the Eiffel Tower though!

Rob Dylan wrote:The thing is I would absolutely love to travel around and see Lyon or Le Havre or Rouen or the south-west, but we're not even allowed to leave the municipality in Paris. Can't even visit the chateaux down the road Tested out my fitness by walking up to the 2nd level of the Eiffel Tower though!

I wish I did more travelling while I was there to be honest.