An Irish Student

After dropping out of university, I busked  with a string quartet in Dublin  to fund my move to London in 1993. I came and stayed with school friends who had summer jobs in the city.  I soon found a scruffy 1)___(BED) to rent, and a job as a 2) ____(MAID), working six days a week for low pay. I'm fortunate in that I've never needed to apply for benefits, but I've benefited from 3) ___(PUBLIC) funded institutions in Britain – as a student and as an employee at universities and in the NHS. I've also worked 4) _____(SEA) in humanitarian aid for a British NGO. I've almost always been made welcome  5) ___(SOCIAL) and when I've applied for British scholarships and jobs. I've sometimes been in the room when people have spoken 6) ___(PEJORATIVE) about immigrants, seeming to forget that I am  one. I now live in the south-west and work for a university, doing research on how to improve health and teaching 7)___ (MEDIC) students.