First few days of the last week

The past few days have been very eventful! I thought they even warrented a post.

First, I celebrated Henry's 113th birthday on Monday with the St. Dunstan's staff. The mayor of Brighton even came to give him flowers. He was aware of what was going on, helped (a little) to cut the cake, and said, "Thank you, God bless" into a microphone to everyone. He's a very sweet man. He was very tired after a long birthday weekend, since he travelled up to London to receive a birthday cake from a Royal Navy helicopter. Pretty exciting for him! Everyone is saying that he's a teenager again. I have a few pictures that are in the link below.

On the same day was the 93rd birthday of Syd, one of the St. Dunstaners that I have been working with. He needs help writing letters and a few books that he's authored, so I help him a few times a week with these tasks. He was very excited that the mayor was at St. Dunstan's on his birthday, and she came over to meet him and kissed him on the cheek. It was all he could talk about after that. :) He recently had his autobiography published, and gave me a signed copy of it! I'm excited to read it.

I also attended an afternoon tea at a local girl's private school, called Rodean. It's a very prestigious school that is right on the ocean, and it beautiful. It's for girls ages 11-18. It costs around 30,000 pounds per year to go there, which would equal about $45,000! The girls do community service at local agencies, and St. Dunstan's is one such place. Thus, my supervisor was invited to tea to thank all the charities who welcome the girls. I got to tag along and have a tour of the school. I felt like I should have brought my doll, since we drank out of fancy tea cups and ate little sandwiches and cakes. It was very girly and fun.

This evening we had a party for all of our supervisors and the professors at the University of Brighton who helped us on our trip. It was a fun little party with hors d'oeuvres. We each gave our supervisors a gift and thanked them for allowing us to be at the agencies. It was nice to meet everyone and chat about our experiences at our placements.

It definitely has been a busy week so far! Tomorrow is my last day at St. Dunstan's. I'm really going to miss it! I'll be taking pictures throughout the day so you can have an idea of what it looks like inside. For now, if you look at the end of this album, you can see the new photos that I've added from Henry and Syd's birthday party: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2190759&id=30308465&l=d715fec0e4