![]() Settling in to university life can be challenging, but I like the education system in the UK. I also love visiting Hampton Court Palace, being near the River Thames makes the Palace look so spectacular. I don’t see a lot of railroad crossing gates here in the UK, so I feel nostalgic for my old days back in Thailand whenever I go through these gates. ![]() I’ve started to explore my local area, and one of my favourite places is Strawberry Hill station. I also went to a Freshers’ Fair, where I had a chance to sign up to any sports and societies that I wanted to take part in. My Freshers’ Week experience was quite exciting, I enjoyed meeting new people and making friends. It’s a great environment to study and play sports. My first impressions of the campus were that it’s so beautiful and peaceful. It’s a chance for me to be surrounded by native English speakers and learn, practice and improve my English. ![]() I’m excited to study in the UK because I will be able to meet people from all around the world. When I found out I had been awarded a GREAT scholarship, I felt so grateful. Read about how he’s settling in to life in the UK as a GREAT scholar. Orr is area forensic director with the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health in Boston.Manit Sittimart, from Thailand, was awarded a GREAT scholarship for his master’s course in Chronic Disease Management at St Mary’s University for 2019-2020. Now that I have read the book, instead of thinking these women are lucky for having participated in Lamb's writers' group, I realize that they are blessed for an entirely different reason: in the process of joining the writers' group, they've had the rare experience in their lives of finding their own true voices. Their stories expand the reader's understanding of incarceration and the roads that lead there. These women not only are proud and courageous, they are writers. Anyone who puts pen to paper to tell his or her story is courageous. At the end of the book is a list of resources for would-be writers and sources Lamb consulted for information about women and corrections.Īnyone who has worked with offenders knows that it is important to find some strength to stay sane during the incarceration. This book is a worthwhile read-and arguably a mandatory one-for anyone who works with people involved with the criminal justice system or who is training or educating those who will work in the system. Having worked with individuals in mental health and criminal justice systems for close to 14 years, I found this book engaging, useful, and provocative. They humanize female offenders and illustrate the victimization, bad judgment, and tragic compulsions that lead some women to become inmates. The stories reveal painful lives written from the empowered vantage point of involvement in a process of healing. They are accessible, intimate, and reflective without being sticky or sympathetic and are varied in style and content. The women's stories are instantly engaging. The response was positive his visits to the facility became a regular event, and a writers' group began. In August 1999 Lamb made his first presentation on the use of writing as a coping tool. As part of that outreach, the staff librarian contacted Wally Lamb to ask whether he would speak about the process of writing to the inmates. The facility's response-one that probably wouldn't occur today-was to reach out to members of the Connecticut community for support. The idea for a writers' group at the all-female institution began in the late 1990s after a series of inmate suicides left women in the facility depressed and hopeless. The book is a collection of short stories and mini-biographies by women who participated in Lamb's writers' group at the York Correctional Institution in Connecticut. I rarely think of incarcerated women as being lucky, but I'm embarrassed to say that that was my first thought about the contributors to Wally Lamb's latest book of essays, Couldn't Keep It to Myself: Testimonies From Our Imprisoned Sisters.
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