So Many Surprises! :D

Saturday morning was pretty cool, for some reason my Bulgarians were up and being roudy kind of early. Then I heard Johanne’s super squeaky door and decided that I should join the party in the kitchen. When I got in there, everyone was asking what we should do for food, and I said “the real question is why are we up before 12”. We of course had a really great time talking about the night before. When Toni and Jordan said what happened to them, and then how they stumbled home only to need the help of poor Johanne (Mina and I were completely passed out drunk, Mina looking like a hamster lol). Johanne really had a tough time with them two apparently, I really wish I would have seen it! After talking about our respective evenings, the day really took a shocking turn for the worst. The internet at Hillhead was out and it was not long before hysteria set in at flat 289 lol. Mina really going crazy about only having two more episodes of a series left, and no Johanne around to give her more or internet. I tried to do some more work. While I was sitting, typing on my computer, my phone (like 6 inches from my face) starts vibrating really loudly because Zoe called. It took me about 10 minutes to restart my heart, stop yelling at Zoe for nearly killing me, and coherently understand that I was supposed to go to Bri’s flat lol. But omg when I got there it was SO WORTH the near death experience. Literally it was the best surprise EVER! Especially since I really wasn’t expecting it at all lol I screamed and kind of threw my purse across the room in excitement. It was AMAZE-BALLS. After getting all the details and hearing about their stories from the night before, I went to town with Bri, Kelsie, and Zoe (I love them!). We did some nice Christmas shopping at primark (where I got a new onesie!) and poundland lol. Then we had a nutritious dinner of MacDos. When we got back to Hillhead, I quickly got ready to go over and spend the evening at South House with everyone. Martyn had gotten a little Christmas tree and it was on the table in the kitchen lol. We ended up doing all sorts of Christmasy things, like hanging lights and listening to Christmas music. It was a very lazy night, but I think most of us were really trying hard not to think that this was the last Saturday that we would all be together. After Kelsie showed us literally the freakiest thing on facebook about a lip sync in the Philippines, I said we need to watch a Christmas movie to get that out of our heads lol. So we watched Elf on the internet. Since Bri had a lot of work to do, Greg was with us in the kitchen and acting like his usual loud self. Eddie was there too with Catherine, and at one point Greg and Eddie were making fun of my accent. They talked about going to the mall to shop and going to Florida on Spring Break lol. It was really funny. Greg asked me to teach him how to “talk American”. I just said “Spread your vowels and talk slowish” lol. He then made me some toasty bread in the oven, which was awesome considering I was beyond hungry. But, I love knowing how good of friends we’ve all become. Watching Elf was really great until the internet started acting up again. After a while we got really frustrated and kind of just gave up, so I went home. I put on my new Christmasy onesie and stayed up super late for like no apparent reason. Mina and Toni were acting like their usual crazy Bulgarian selves, but I think the lack of internet like all day really got to them lol. Mina saw my new onesie and said “aww Christmas Lydia”, as opposed to the normal “cat Lydia”, “princess Lydia”, and “birthday Lydia” lol. I have so many different alter egos. I was asking Mina and Toni all these different questions about baking, because I was putting together a little surprise for Mina. And I’m pretty sure they thought I was under the influence of some drug. There were in the hall being rowdy (Mina was desperate for more series), and every once in a while I would just stick my head out and ask them some really random questions, like do you know what a cup for measurements is and stuff like that lol. Their reactions were absolutely hilarious. After some more Christmas-type sneakness, I went to bed. I basically dreamt of the pancakes and gravy that I would have the next day.

Mina and Toni woke up really early in the morning (like 10:00) and got all the stuff together for our pancake breakfast, which would then feed into our pancake and gravy dinner lol. I sat in the kitchen with the two of them while Mina cooked. It was a lot of fun to hear them banter back and forth. Mina gave me the first pancake, and when I started to eat it all of a sudden there were two shocked Bulgarians yelling at me saying, “Lydia!! You don’t eat these pancakes the American way!!!”. Lol it was slightly alarming how strong they felt about this. After getting yelled at for eating pancakes the “wrong way”, Toni and Mina took over preparing my pancakes with the Greek cheese and honey the “correct (Bulgarian)” way lol. I kind of felt like a baby since they were just like tsking at me and laughing, but it was really funny to see their reactions. The pancakes (or I guess crepes, actually) were amazing. Toni and Mina were very pleased with themselves lol. Johanne trolled (I actually meant strolled, but I think this spelling mistake is a lot funnier considering how Johanne is in the mornings lol) in later and joined our happy pancake eating in the proper way. The rest of the day was devoted to my Arthur essay, basically. Researching and coherently stringing my thoughts together, since it was a comparative essay of how the figure of Arthur changed from the early sources to the French Romantic literature, was super time consuming which really sucked. But I discovered that Tchaikovsky’s ballets are EXTREMELY conducive to a focused work environment, so the number of plays of the Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, and Swan Lake soundtracks basically quadrupled on my iTunes. Before I knew it, I was eagerly watching Mina make our pancake and crepe dinner. I never noticed before, but I really watch her cook A LOT lol. It’s a good thing she thinks its funny. But I like helping her with everything and I want to learn to make the dishes she does, so it’s not like staring in a creepy way… or at least I hope not. But anyways, I had a really lovely dinner with my amazing flatmates :) then I basically stayed up the entire night doing all sorts of random work. I didn’t finally go to bed until about 6:30… but that may have been more due to my desire to finish Breaking Dawn than work on my essays lol. When I realized how late it was, I kind of just shrugged and said “ya… I’m not going to any of my lectures later today”.

Monday was a super boring day. Ugh around 1:30 I made a last minute decision to go to my Arthur class since I have an essay due for it… I basically just felt guilty not going and sleeping the entire day lol. So I dragged myself to the library for a little and then went to my lecture. After that I kind of ran around doing some errands for leaving. It still hasn’t hit me yet that I’ll be back in American in less than a week. Seriously I can’t even fathom the idea. While walking home, I decided to stop at lidl because I knew that we literally had NO food in my flat. We really are a bunch of pigs lol. But real women like to eat. And I really like knowing that we have a full and happy fridge lol so I kind of went crazy buying all sorts of groceries. Toni cooked some of the food for our dinner and that was tasty, as usual. Then I was up again until like 6am, but at least I finished my Arthur essay! Tchaikovsky really helped a lot with that one lol. I was super happy about finishing my essay… and then I remembered that I have another one to write. AND it’s for the worst class in the world. Damn Vikings! ruining my fun.

Tuesday I slept in until like 1:30 again… I was definitely on a strange sleeping pattern. While on this strange sleeping pattern, I pretty much came to the conclusion that there are ghosts in the flat above me who like to make a lot of noise around 5:30/6:00. Either ghosts or some way too keen asian students. Both are plausible conclusions lol. Since Tuesday is the day that I don’t go to my lectures ever, I edited my Arthur essay and did some other random things… basically I was just procrastinating Vikings! for as long as possible. It’s really scary how quick the day went by doing a whole lot of nothing, though. When I was napping (because apparently I don’t sleep enough during the daytime), Kelsie called me. After much confusion (mostly on my part), I was told to meet her and Bri at South house at 7:30 so we could meet Zoe and have our haggis dinner. Since we were just hanging out together, I didn’t bother showering our even eating since I was promised food. When I got to South House, the amount of red everyone was wearing was pretty fishy lol. Kelsie told me and Bri that she was dressed as an American, and that we were going to have to wear tartan scarves while we eat lol. All the guys randomly left to go lidl, and the three of us commented on how we love that they will just leave us there without any worries. So the Bri, Kelsie, and I waited in their kitchen until Zoe called and said everything was nicely set up for our dinner. We walked over to Bri’s flat, and Bri and I are “surprised” by our going away party. I kind of knew something was going on, but I definitely wasn’t expecting all the guys to be there, even Eddie and Andrew Irvine. I seriously have the best friends in the world. I still can’t get over how lucky I am. Andrew Irvine kicked off the night by already being super drunk and then kind of passing out-ish in Martyn’s lap with his hands around Martyn’s waist lol. Then Kelsie gave Bri and me our scrapbooks, which everyone had worked on and wrote notes in. I think that might have been the nicest thing a group of friends have ever done for me. My scrapbook is literally perfect. It’s so full of happy memories and hilarious pictures. The comments that everyone wrote to me were really sweet and it just shows me even more that I am the luckiest person in the world. If there was a fire, I came to the conclusion that my scrapbook would be one of the first things I grabbed. Something as heartfelt as that can’t ever be replaced. Lots of crying ensued, of course. I can’t even describe how much I’m going to miss everyone when I’m forced to leave. They really are an amazing group of people and I love each and every one of them. After all of that, lots of drinking and partying happened. Since I hadn’t really eaten any dinner, except for the dodgy looking hotdogs and crisps at the party, I got completely schwasted lol. Seriously I don’t remember anything, basically. If I had known it was a party I definitely would have eaten and showered… you know, things like that so I wouldn’t have acted so ridiculous lol. But I think everyone was in the mood to party hardy, so it really was a wonderful night. I love having my Scottish family :) We all just hung out in the kitchen and listened to good music, like One D and Show Me Your Genitails lol the classics. We even ate the vodka gummies from Halloween. That probably wasn’t the best idea, but they actually tasted pretty good. I told everyone how much I’m going to miss them and gave lots of hugs and kisses all around, apparently. At random points I would look at Bri and go over and hug her and we would say how lucky we are and how much we love Aberdeen. She wrote “I love Aberdeen” on my arm, starting all sorts of things to be written. Like “I love Lydia because she’s sexy” (I’m so creative lol) and Ali bass player drew an American flag on my other arm. Things kind of got out of control after a while. Lots and lots of pictures were taken, that I will hopefully see one day. I talked about all sorts of things with like Andrew, Martyn, and Ali bass player. I think I gave Andrew some Disney character names for renaming all the contacts in Catherine’s phone lol. He was looking for pokemon, but I don’t really know many pokemon so that was a bummer. He was pretty shocked at that lol. Later, we sang the American National Anthem and God Save the Queen lol. The amount of love in our small group is absolutely amazing. Seriously whether it’s a bromance, the love of a strong and lasting friendship, or THE love and affection between two people, it’s basically like magnified by 100 in our group. It’s really special. We held hands Girl Scout style and sang Old Langsyne together. Apparently I started really crying and walked into the middle of the circle and started hugging Bri, and then Kelsie came in and grabbed us both. And the best part of all is how the rest of the group kind of closed the circle around us and we ended up forming a huge rocking blob lol. Things got a lot less cute after that, especially when Cry Me A River played and we all danced and made fun of Zoe for her youtube video lol. I love her so much, though. Of course there were a ton of drunken antics. Some worse than others lol, but its really hilarious now to think about. I of course ended up chundering. Andrew was taking care of me for a little, which was really adorable and sweet lol. Apparently at one point we were sitting in the bathroom and I just had my head in my lap and we were holding hands… and then I spewed in the sink like a boss lol. Bri tied my hair back and Andrew dealt with the vom. Lol and then the night continued like that off and on with me spewing. Kelsie told me my absolute favorite thing to her say, “get on your knees for me, Lydia” lol. Kelsie tried to feed me pizza toast, but that definitely wasn’t happening. After a littile while, Kelsie, Bri, Zoe, and Andrew took me home. They tucked me in really nicely, I was told that it was really cute and funny later. They kissed my forehead and reminded me that they love me and I have Kelsie’s vegetable drawer to puke in lol. Then I was visited by my flatmates. Johanne is always on the ball for these things lol, we’ve had many experiences together like this. But apparently Mina was really proud of herself for actually helping this time. Generally, Mina and Toni are not in the right frame of mind to help me. They would start talking to me in Bulgarian and things like that lol. But it was a really amazing and special night. One I’m really sorry to not remember as much as I want.

Ugh around 6:00 I woke up and felt rougher than Sandshrew’s backside, as Zoe would say. It was really nice to have coke (courtesy of Mina) waiting for me in the morning lol. I definitely needed it. But apparently the lack of food in my stomach from the previous night was still plaguing me. Ugh. Johanne checked in on me as I spewed a little into Kelsie’s vegetable drawer lol. Everyone was all really worried because generally after a good night out, even if I’m super drunk, I NEVER puke in the morning. I just drink my pop and go on my merry way lol. But that was not the case on Wednesday morning. There was no way I was making it to my tutorial. Lindsay brought my scrapbook over and we talked a little about the mystery which was Tuesday night lol. She even went out and bought me more coke which was great. Ugh after laying in my bed for a while longer I remembered that I had a meeting with my tutor for freaking Vikings! so I speed shower at 12 and am out the door by 12:40. Lisa Wotherspoon is a crazy person, literally. I hate how apparently no one answers the questions completely so you get knocked down from a first class mark. Oh well. After my meeting I went to the Hub and found Kelsie and Bri. They told me some really crazy things that happened last night and all I have to say is WOW. I was beyond shocked and surprised lol. It really was an insane night. Bri and I then went to town to do some more Christmas shopping. That was a lot of fun, especially when we discovered the Disney store in this very well hidden shopping mall lol. We spent way too much time in there for two girls in their 20s, but whatever. It was such a happy and fun place lol. We did a little more shopping and then went to MacDos for a nice snack lol. While we were waiting for the bus we randomly bumped into Johanne who was also out doing Christmas shopping. We had a really nice bus ride back, talking about our various drunken antics and tropical showers lol. I nearly completely forgot about the 2500-3000 word essay that was due the next day. That was an unfortunate realization, ugh. But I listened to my Tchaikovsky and pretty much powered through that crap Vikings! essay like a champ. Literally I wrote it in less than 6 hours which is amazing for me lol. And it wasn’t that bad of an essay, actually so I’m pretty proud of myself. When I finished it I kind of had a little party with my flatmates and Ross in Toni’s room. We had a good time watching all the good random youtube videos and talking about Johanne’s little pity party the other day lol. Johanne made Mina stroke her eyebrow for like 10 minutes… it was super funny to watch since Mina was really feeling like a creep but Johanne was falling asleep. Some pretty awful pictures were taken by Toni, like usual. Then we started talking about our last supper for Thursday, which was really sad but also kind of funny since we said we would dress up like the Da Vinci painting and incorporate all these symbols into it. After some more craziness around the flat, I decided that I should start writing my Christmas cards. Those ended up taking WAY longer than I thought, so everyone better really appreciate them! They came straight from the heart :) But, around 4:00 I tried to go to bed. Sleeping definitely wasn’t happening… I was really thinking about you. After I finally fell asleep, Christian calls me and completely freaks me out. His phone was about to die and he was lost somewhere in town. I was so ready to go all AWOL and find him. It really was the biggest shock of my life, especially after having such a hard time falling asleep. It was definitely a day full of surprises.