Nursing Diary no1 - 5 September 1922-3 June 1923

lunch at 12 15- 1-2 PM a study hour. At 2 PM Miss Callard sent Miss Ruttle & I to Ward 10 for 3 patients. We brought them back and had a demonstrtaion on bed making with a patient in it then we practiced. And made more eye sponges After four Miss MacDougall, Miss Summers & I went downtown. I bought soap 10 powder 30 cream 35 hair nets 25 book 10 pencil 5 were back for dinner at 6 PM. After dinner

I felt pretty homesick again - but we took our soiled cuffs down to the Chinks at the corner - and came back to sit on Nurses Home Verandah - met Olive Johnson & Miss Gardiner & went for a walk. Had a box that Mother sent from Smallman & Ingram - with little things I need. But I still felt very homesick when I went to bed.

Saturday Sept 9/22

Dear Dairy - I did

feel a little better this AM. even though it was so dreary and raining very hard. Breakfast 7 15 - back to make bed - class 8 dusted our room. 8 - 10 AM. went to Kitchen - a very nice clean place. Back to classroon - had to make bed with patient in it. I did very well only very slow. Lunch at 12 15 After lunch a study hour. Miss Collards day off - so we made sponges all alone. 2 PM. Miss

MacDougall & Lewis bought canteloupe and candy and we came back about 8 30. Had to cut canteloupe with nail file and eat with shoe horn. Lawson, Ellis, Fretz & Hope - Junior nurses from next floor came up with two bucks of ice cream - and we had a wonderful "feed" - and a wonderful time. Everyone showed their pictures and they raved over Tim & Frank. We acted terribly. Lawson and I had a pillow

MacPherson gave us a written quiz on Practical nursing. It was very stupid. But can do better next time. The questions were odd - and sticky. Very different to any other examination I ever tried. After four we just stayed around and got bathed But I cannot stay doing nothing without being homesick. So after dinner we decided to walk downtown. London was rather crowded for the night, and we just looked around