Bowling Night

As always, we had a great night bowling last night in Chatham. Lots of laughter and cheering and the occasional bit of heckling, but all good fun.  Many thanks to all those who came along :-)

Shahir, Kal, Awad, Michel, Clement, Arshad

Sonali, Pesila, Dina, Ahsan, Sana, Mushfiq

Lesley, Ayman, Basel, Aiste, Wayne

Veroni, Jill, Lynne, Areti

Apologies for showing off but I got a bronze and two gold medals!!!

GKU Volunteers Awards

Had a wonderful evening last night at the annual GKU Volunteer Awards.  The Student Hub had been beautifully transformed for the evening.

The food was wonderfully, totally, satisfyingly, scrumptious  ...

The Bronze award was given to those who
had logged 25 hours of volunteering.

Silver awards went to those who had
done at least 50 hours.

The Gold award went to students having
completed over 100 hours.

Gold + was awarded to students who had done
an amazing 200+ hours of volunteering.

37 societies

791 memberships

83 community volunteers

9723 volunteering hours logged

How To Beat Stress

Mental Health Awareness week

Did you know that May 14th - 20th 2018 is

Mental Health Awareness week.

There are so many helpful websites out there, with a plethora of great tips on how to look after your own well-being and reduce levels of stress  ...  but maybe you're too tired or frustrated to even look.

Here's just one website I've been looking at recently  ...

www.mentalhealth.org.uk

Two things I'd particularly recommend are ...

1. A downloadable booklet entitled 'How to Manage and Reduce Stress'.  Packed with helpful and achievable tips!!

2. A blog entry called 'My Stress Footprint' which I found particularly challenging. Each of us might take time to consider the factors, people and situations that cause us stress, but what about the footprint we leave in other people's lives. Do we infact display habits or tendancies that regularly stress other people?  Oooooh, a tough question to ask!!

A thought for today!

International Nurses Day

Tomorrow is International Nurses Day and I'd like to say a BIG THANK YOU to all those who are dedicated to serving the sick, here in our hospitals and care homes, but also around the world. Thank you in particular to those students currently training at Christ Church Canterbury University here at the Medway Campus to be adult nurses, child nurses and mental health nurses. Not only your skills but your compassion is much appreciated.

Where are they now? Adeline

THEN  ...  2013

Well, hello from sunny Chennai, India. My name is Adeline Preethe 
and I studied 
at the University of Greenwich back in 2013.

I am now the Senior Project Coordinator at the International Center for Cardiovascular and Thoracic diseases, and I oversee the Clinical Trials and pre-clinical studies ongoing in the Clinical Research Department. It's both hard and satisfying work which I am really grateful to God for.

... and NOW!

My daughter, who I am sure some will remember me crying for every Sunday at church; is now in her fourth grade and making me a proud mummy. My days at Greenwich, Medway Campus are still a very fond memory that I revisit all the time.

I hope your year was as blessed as mine. 

With love and regards

Adeline.