Um what?

And so the fun continues...
I wish induction week would be over already, I sat still three hours this morning. I didn't even know I could do that. Most of it thought was a little interesting the lecture on class dynamics wasn't bad although the whole room pretty much sat silent for the full three hours. It's weird I know I should love all this stuff but I just don't. It's dull and mind numbingly boring. The cohort still isn't comfortable in each other’s presence which makes it even more difficult. Are main tutor is an absolutely amazing, chatty and bubbly and somehow appears fairly normal, which in the midwifery profession is very rare. I have biked to the building three times now and I swear it nearly kills me. I thought I was fairly fit but boy was I so wrong. We also had a talk in the afternoon about Study skills and legislation within the NHS, Fun right? NO. My brain went numb and I literally felt like my ears were bleeding, I must admit I was okay until we looked a referencing then I was gone, pretty much sat in my chair in shock at the complexity of it all, I mean really on are second day? Throw us in at the deep end why don't ya! Safe to say today was far from fun and i still have a small heap of directed study to do :( another late night tonight then.

In the NHS talk thing today we mostly talked about politics and how we needed to be aware of how the work place and NHS is changing and what that means for our future. It really says a lot about how a hospital is run when the government is looking to cut funds, training and hospitals in order to dig ourselves out of the financial downturn. Where on earth do they expect to treat the same amount of people on fewer resources than we have now? We are clutching at straws as it is. Normally I would just ignore all this stupidity and pretend it had nothing to do with me, but now it does. What the government do in the next few years can mean I either have a job after university or not. So really I should get involved a bit more. A lot of the student midwives on the course have very strong view about it, but because I lack the knowledge to look at it all I’m pretty useless within group discussions which is a shame, so more reading is to follow I’m sure.