 So today is the Vivit experience at Birmingham City University and I'm excited! I've been wanting to go to this for a while now, I keep seeing it, I keep seeing tweets, I keep seeing Facebook posts and I'm so jealous and today is the day I finally get to go. I'm so excited, I can't wait and there are 10 till 3, I think there's a lunch break as well. I'm not sure if we're going to be eating lunch around the pigs organs but we'll find out. Anyway, I won't be put off, I can eat anything but I'm really really excited for today. I'm not 100% sure what to expect, I'm assuming they're going to do a talk through, they're going to explain the body parts maybe. I've got no idea what to expect, I just know the photos look amazing, the experience looks amazing and I'm excited. Let's go. So we're halfway through, I've come outside because it's a beautiful day, I've got my lunch and I just wanted to update you all how it's going. So it's absolutely amazing. I actually didn't realise how educational this actually was and the amount of detail they're going into and once they explain something they're showing you it, so they're doing the theory and then the practice. So they spoke about the brain, the lobes and different things like that and the effect that a stroke can have on the brain and then we dissected the brain. So they started off with the sort of theory behind the physiology and where physiology started and who looked into it and the Egyptian times and different ways of doing things which I thought was really good to start you off and then they delved into actually the human body and anatomy just to get your sort of feeling your way around the human body before they started talking and going into things which I thought was really, really useful because if you don't understand physiology, if you don't come from a healthcare background you might not know the technical terms, so it was really good to see that sort of side and then they went into the sort of more conditions of the body and things like that and then we went into the dissection. So it was really good, you could also hire the PPE equipment so gloves and aprons, face mask, so that you can handle the pig's organs and that was really good as well to get the hands-on experience. If you're like me and you're a visual learner like I am, it's really, really good from that sort of aspect so you're listening but then you're actually doing it. So for me that was just amazing. We've got another two hours left when we go back and then I will update you when we come out, yeah, what my final review is. I shall see you all later. So that's it, I'm home, I'm back from the vivid experience and wow, what a day. To be honest, I went not really knowing what to expect but this was a lot more educational than I thought. I assumed that it was going to be like a post-mortem type thing, they were going to dissect some things, they were going to explain it and then you'd get to have a go and that was it. But actually, they were really educational. These people that do it, they're actually physiologists. The lady that was doing it, she's actually someone that does post-mortems as well so her knowledge is amazing. And she was explaining the human body, the sort of different conditions, the different things that she looks out for. She was so good, she was so knowledgeable and just it was such an amazing experience. I actually learned a lot, actually top tip of the day that I want to tell you because I have to tell everybody this now. So basically I always thought your lungs were like here to here so they would start here and then where your sort of ends and your ribcage ends that's where I always thought that your lung ends. So I've always had that in my head, your lungs are that big. Actually, your lungs start up here so just above your collar bone and then they end literally here. And that just, I was just like, what? Like that blew my mind. I know that's the main thing that I've took away from today is that. But you know what, it was an amazing day, it was really good. I had a fabulous time and it was just great. The way that it was done as well, I liked that they had the theory and then the practice that was really, really good. So pros and cons of the day, it's a fantastic experience, really, really educational, I've learned a lot and it's great if you're a visual learner, you can apply that sort of theory, practice visual hands-on stuff into your own nursing practice or if you're in medical science, if you're a physiologist, like that, you're really, really going to apply that into your own practice. So I think that's a real massive plus for that and you're not going to get that experience anywhere else, which is fantastic, really amazing experience. They don't usually do these sort of things within your course. The cons is I think it's a little bit pricey and they do make you pay an extra £10 when you're there to get the gloves and the aprons. So take your own gloves and aprons, top tip of the day. And there's a horrendous stench because it is animal organs and it does smell really bad, so you sort of sit there thinking, oh my god. But I did see someone with a tub of the VIX vapor rub and putting that under her nose, which is an amazing idea. So top tip, take something to rub under your nose where it's like a lavender oil, VIX rub, anything like that that you can put under your nose just to just hide sort of the smell if you don't want to be smelling that. Because it's not very nice, but the vivid experience, for me, I found it really good, really educational and it was just a fun day. I made it fun and I've learned actually quite a lot from today. So I'm really happy that I went. It was a great experience and I'm going to take a lot away from that today. And what's really weird about the thing, the whole experience, it makes you hungry. And I don't know if that's weird or not, but it makes you hungry. So I am home now, I'm going to go get my dinner and I really hope you've enjoyed this experience and I'll see you next time.