The Beach




The Park


4 flowers ;-)


Hanging out ;-)


2 brave ones in the sea :-)

Twins?? ;-)

In the evening some still worked on their project...

... and some relaxed a little while watching a DVD

first work, then amusement...then work again

Yesterday we worked really hard on our project...first we splitted up in order to progress quicklier, so Sina and Nadia dealt with finding relevant information about benefits to cancer patients and about how the situation is handled in Austria. Sandra and I looked for facts about the Macmillan Cancer Support itself, which we found in the folders that we had taken with us and moreover from the website. We were rather committed to finish the written part of the project soon, nevertheless it took us much longer than we had expected. In the afternoon we reached the point where we had to take a break and we decided to walk into the centre...the shops were so tempting and I had to keep in mind that my suitcase is only allowed to weigh 20 kg. Then we bought about 6 bags full of food in the huge supermarket...now I think that we get by with all the things until we leave. Afterwards we felt better and continued until the very late evening writing the assingnment and then, you already can imagine, fell asleep really exhausted.

Here, we were hard-working :-)

The Second Day

Today we had two very interesting talks about housing in Britain. The first lecture by Barbara Compton, head of Housing Solutions, dealt with different possibilities of accommodations provided by this organisation, e.g. affordable housing or council housing. Besides she mentioned some facts and figures concerning Private Sector Homes, homelessness and renewal of the city of Southampton.
The second speech was held by a representor of the Atlantic Housing Association, which owns about 5000 properties in and around the county of Hampshire. They offer various types of housing like general needs housing, supported housing and extra care properties for elderly people, refugees, lease holders and student lettings. One interesting fact was that there are lists in different areas, the so-called keyworkers' list (a list with professions like doctors, nurses, garbage men...) where people, who work exactly in the wanted profession, receive accomodations under specific conditions.
Furthermore we changed the topic of our project since we considered the topic about cancer patients more interesting than our first choice.

The Arrival

On Sunday, relatively late in the evening, little by little everyone arrived in Southampton. As we were rather exhausted by the trip we fell asleep very soon.