Chiro School Visit

I haven't updated my blog in a while because I haven't been doing anything too exciting!I walked Justin to the train station yesterday so he could start his journey to London in order to catch a plane to Sweden (He's visiting one of his friends that he played hockey with at Gustavus). Earlier this week ( Wed the 13th) we visited a chiropractic college in Bournemouth! It was about a 45 minute train ride and unfortunately we had some issues with our train tickets. We bought VERY cheap tickets which seemed awesome at the time but a) my tickets never ended up getting emailed to me (we had to print them out which usually you can just pick them up at a machine at the train station) and b) normally you buy a ticket but it doesn't really matter what particular time you ride the train - these tickets were for a specific time. We were done touring the school and checking out the city by 5 pm but our return train wasn't scheduled until 7 pm. It was too cold to just hang around so we had to buy another ticket for a much greater price. Stupid - you live and you learn!! Despite those issues the school was very interesting. The number of chiropractors in the UK is very small and I think this school and another in Wales are the only 2 in the UK. About 600 students attend the Anglo-European college of chiropractic and I found it intriguing that you don't need an undergraduate degree before starting your chiropractic education. So some people start around age 18 or 19. It's much cheaper than schools in the US but it is a 5 year program with summer breaks (whereas in the US it's a 3 1/2 year program all year round). The school is in an old church which was funny because the library was really awkward. The stained glass windows were very pretty but all of the shelves of books and desks looked so out of place. It was a good experience but I think I'll stick with my choice of planning to attend Life in July :) I'm ready for some hot weather. Oh and before we toured this chiro school we met with a chiropractor in the town of Winchester. It was an office with a chiropractic, osteopath, and physiotherapists. We spoke with the chiropractor for a little while and got an idea of what chiropractic is like in the UK. All very good things and thanks to Justin for looking all of this stuff up! In other news...I have 4 essays to write in the next 2 1/2 weeks before Justin and I start our travels. We are purchasing a 'Eurail' pass which is a pass that provides you with free or discounted tickets on some many days within the month to 24 different countries. Our plan is to start in Madrid on April 8. We will then see my foreign exchange student that stayed with me in highschool in his hometown of Segovia, Spain and then keep traveling to Barcelona. From there we will be hitting two cities in South France...one where Justin's friend is living and the other is Nice which is on the coast and as I've heard a very beautiful area. After that we will travel through Italy, possibly Greece, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Poland, maybe Croatia/Czech Republic, and Ireland. Then we will head back to London for a few days and catch a flight to Minneapolis on May 14th. Phew - that's a lot! I will keep posted throughout my travels when I can. If anyone has any suggestions for places to go/things to see feel free to email me (alsheser@uwec.edu). Anything will help! Keep in touch.