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Scottish Welcome
Hullo!!!! It's official: I love Scotland!!!
So here's what's been going on in the last few eventful weeks.
I spent a week before my departure in Phx with my family and
friends. I began shopping and packing. Jessie was a god-send
and took poor, pathetic, non-shopper me to all the best places.
I bought sweaters (jumpers), jackets, and lots of jeans (trousers).
Here is Jessie and I sporting some rather attractive coats.
When it came down to packing, which I started the day
of (Me = procrastinator extraordinaire), I realize now I have
just a few oversights when deciding what to pack air-tight
in the three, seemingly small suit cases. One of which was
shoes other than my super hard-core Gortex hiking boots. While
practical, they are a bit "unfashionable" if you
can believe it. Bah, I don't care about being cool (Posh).
Anyways (anyrod), regardless of my measily wardrobe I have
already made a lot of friends at John Burnett Hall (Atholl).
Everyone is really smart, abnormally interesting, and almost
overwhelmingly friendly. I've even been adopted by Academic
parents. This is one of hundreds of St. Andrews traditions
where if you are a first year to the University (Uni) you
can have an academic mom and dad and on Raisin Weekend you
go to a party at your mom's and essentially get trashed and
dressed up funny and then proceed to your dad's and continue
the mayhem and eventually, if you were smart enough to write
your address on your body somewhere, are returned to your
bed in the early (wee) hours in the morning. Here is a picture
of my St. Andrews parents.
The weather may be freaking freezing (to me) and will
only get worse, but the town and the atmosphere make up for
it. St. Andrews is one of the oldest towns in Scotland and
is an ancient capital. Being such an important center of Scottish
life, the town (only three main streets and no proper traffic
lights) has its own castle and one of the largest cathedrals
ever built in Scotland. Granted, both of these are in ruins.
These majestic ancient buildings, the gorgeous Victorian style
houses, and the ancient University buildings, some dating
from the 1400's, are a captivating atmosphere accented by
the breathtaking North Sea that skirts the entire town. Here
are just a few scenic pictures, some from St. Andrews and
a couple from the Highlands which I took a day tour of on
Saturday.
Now I know a lot of people give me a hard
time about the 'boring' scenic pictures and no worries, I'll
have some great ones up soon of people illustrating the madness
that is John Burnett Hall. Tomorrow night we will be traveling
to Fernie Castle for a Ball. Yes, that's right, A CASTLE!!!
How freaking cool is that! There are some great drunken ideas
around here that I will definitely have to bring back. But
I suppose having been around so long, the Scottish have had
some time to try just about everything.
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