Our Professor took us on a two-hour train ride to Derbyshire (pronounced Darbyshure-I got scolded a couple time by the English for saying it wrong). We are going there to visit some of the rural hospitals tomorrow and see what nursing is like. Our first stop was at Chatsworth House where the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire live. I must say I could easily live in their house; it is huge and gorgeous! The grounds were my favorite part because they look out over the beautiful hills and trees of the English countryside.
We moved into the ?dorms? at Cliff College where we will be sleeping/eating. Teresa and I walked forever looking for a store to buy food and drink so we wouldn?t be bored back in the dorms all night. We ended up with some magazines and ice cream which managed to entertain us for awhile until bedtime (we laughed pretty hard at some of the English slang words in the magazines).
British word of the day:
Mate ? meaning a friend. Example: ?Bring your mates down for a drink at the local pub?. You can also say ?Hello there, mate?. I like this word because we usually don?t say ?Hello there, friend?, but I don?t see why we shouldn?t!
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