2nd Day in the UK

Today we started with an English class followed by two interesting presentations about "Housing" in Britain. We were really surprised that there are not more than 10 people in Southampten who sleep "rough" at night. It seemed us less than in Innsbruck.

After a short lunch break Evelyn, Helene, Hannes and I had the possibility to go to an "open day" in an Elderly Care Home named Challoner house. It is about 25 min away from Southampton. We expected to get a good view into the treatment, management and living of elderly people in the UK which is necessary for our project. Well, so we went there by a traditional English bus, which was a new and interesting experience for all of us, especially for Evelyn. Challoner house is a private care home which covers about 50 people who are old and can't take care for themselves or are terminally ill. All in all, we were very depressed and dissatisfied when we left the care home after 15 minutes. The general manager was a little bit impolite, busy and didn't want to answer any question we had prepared before.

Back in Southampton we had our dinner and worked on our weblog for more than two hours!!!

Tomorrow we will visit the Western Community Hospital and start to do our research on the internet. Time is running!