Ergg I hate falling behind in anything, even blogging lol. But yesterday after Allie and I walked around we met up with our Arcadia people and went to the Edinburgh Cookery School and made all these small tasty biscuits and scones and shortbread, etc... it was a lot of fun to work in a really cool kitchen like that. The evening hours became much more entertaining though when Bree, Jordan, Thomas, and I went out to Biddy Madaggins and some other pubs for some drinks. I mean, who doesn't enjoy being cat called while wandering around a beautiful city at night lol. We even got some fish and chips to ensure no hang overs (a fabulous idea). SO the night when quite smoothly, with no sign of our creepy friend from the night before and plenty of birthday festivities for Jordan's 21st. :)
Then today was kind of crazy with Hemish and Anna explaining all these scary facts about Scottish universities compared to American ones. For example our courses will be less structured and very based on independent learning. More freedom to pursue the subject is nice, but that also means more responsibility. In the end we won't have any exams but we will have one or two papers to base our entire grade off of and no one NO ONE gets A's... thats is quite scary to me. But then we talked about how everything will work out fine and there is a good support system around with people who understand that international students want to do other things beside study. So thats reassuring. :) Then we met with a representative from Aberdeen, and ours was really nice and helpful. But I was definitely relieved to put that stuff away, pack and check out, and go to lunch. We went to a really nice , cheap place for lunch and hung out for a bit before going to the National Museum of Scotland and had a guided tour with Hemish and the other Arcadia people. THe guide was really nice and gave a lot of cool info about the things we say. But just walking around and souvenir shopping afterwards was really great because it's actually sunny here today! AMAZING!
Now we are all waiting around to meet with our host families. Bree and I are staying together with some unknown Scottish people. Hopefully they will be nice and cool. Tomorrow we are supposed to tour Edinburgh castle and I'm soo excited! Lets just hope everything goes well with the family...
Dude they told me the same thing about school in Australia -- harder grading, more independent, only a few marks -- but it turned out to be so much easier than they said. So don't get too worried yet.
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