Women at Work

Both men and women severed in WWII. Many women chose to enlist as nurses and be stationed overseas caring for wounded solders. For this activity we had to imagine that we one of the nurses working on one of the large medical ship, and finish this story...

One day you are walking along the deck of the ship when you hear a loud bang. You start to run as you see smoke coming from the far end of the ship. You run towards the room where your patients are waiting to receive treatment from the doctor. Just as you arrive at the door to their room you hear another loud bang and you, quickly sweep the door open and rush to the patients. Rushing to one bed to another trying to calm the men. Some of the men are wailing loudly and others are trying to get out of their beds. You look up to see there are no other nurses around to help, they must be searching the ship to see what happened, you reason. You are finally able to calm everyone down when one of the men cry "we're sinking, look there is water coming through the floor!" Everyone looks down and a new wave of panic spreads through the room, the men even more agitated than before. Suddenly your older sister Mary, and fellow nurse is at the door, "the ship is sinking" she cried, confirming the men's worst nightmare! Everyone is suddenly in at state of shock at the news, too scared to freak out. "Get the men to the lifeboats the others are sorting out the boats and will be here to help soon" Mary shouts trying to get hold of the situation. Mary and you take a end of a stretcher after laying a man down and rush out the door, you get there as more nurses rush behind you with stretchers. You make it to the lifeboats and drop the man you are caring down and start running back, after a few more trips you and the other nurses manage to collect all the men and sit them in the boats, then you push the boats onto the water. Then you and the other nurses hop into another boat, and slip it into the water too. You look back to see the ship disappearing from view, you finally let out a sigh after the panic everyone has calmed down all knowing tomorrow will also be as eventful as today.