Ok so when I said Tuesdays I meant Wednesdays? lol

This week wasn't all that interesting. Again. haha. I didn't really have any classes except for my Scottish Culture class. We had a speaker come in to talk to us about sport in Scotland and apparently he hated the United States. He told us that baseball and American football were for girls. But as soon as he started talking about how great Scotland was at swimming there was a lot of "Michael Phelps" disguised as coughs. lol.

On Thursday I went shopping and I got the cutest little Swarovski hedgehog. I couldn't resist. And since it's not available in the USA, I had a valid excuse for buying it. :) I also picked up a lot of postcards which I will be sending as soon as I locate the postoffice. If you want one, let me know!

Friday, Saturday, and Sunday I planned to do useful things but never got around to it. I caught up on all my school work (boring) and looked for jobs at home for the summer (even more boring). I wanted to go to ASDA but it was raining and carrying groceries three blocks in the rain just didn't appeal to me.....


Monday I got up at a reasonable time (yay!) and went down to St. John's to take pictures of the castle (St. John's is at the foot of the hill that the castle sits upon). And I made it to class on time - which is always good.

Today, I had to get up at 7:30 to get to school so that I could catch a bus out to the Firth of Forth (firth = river, loch = lake). I had to collect sample of something but mostly I just played with the dogs that were running around. It made me so happy to have actual contact with dogs - you can't even imagine.


I also got myself signed up for a trip with some of my classmates to go up to Inverness and the Murray Firth to go see dolphins! Then I came back to my flat (wearing wellies that smelled like a swamp) and had lunch (you have no idea how long it took me to spell that word correctly) and intended to take a short nap which turned into a slightly longer than I intended nap...Thankfully I woke up in time to shower (swamp smell, ya know?) and go to Christain Union (CU)- which I still love - over at Merchiston (I also have classes there). There's a possibility of me doing a Scottish "Sleep-In-A-Box". Afterwards we once again trekked out to the Student Union (University owned bar - awesome right?) and now I'm back here relating my entire week back to you!

Merchiston:

The old looking building in the middle is actually what remains of John Napier's house - the guy that founded the University. Pretty awesome.

Interesting facts: words like whichamajigit and thingamabob and such have no meaning here so when I use them people look at me like I'm speaking an alien language. Fun stuff. Also, there's a slight chance I said the words "usetacould" and "been knowin'" which got me some interesting looks too. Oh and the boys should like this one - the cars here are itty bitty. My car would crush them. And when they hit the gas you can actually hear the hamester inside spinning the wheel to make the engine go. ;-) It makes me laugh everytime.