Minnesota, Alaska, and I at Dusk, one of the night clubs in town.
The Makintosh tower's spiral staircase in the lighthouse... this is one of about 10 pictures Wyoming and I took of it
Glasgow Cathedral, we got inside, but didnt get to see much of the inside due to the "Boys Brigade" (think boyscouts with very Christian roots, was having some sort of massive ceremony
Wyoming and I soooo totally climbed a wall in the Linlithgow Palace for this picture.
Linlithgow Loch from the top of the Palace
Linlithgow Palace, and the Church as the sun is setting
Ok first some clean up from the last posting. The "mystery castle" is indeed the one used for many scenes from Monty Python. It is known as the Doune Castle and it is really cool. Also, after further investigation, despite what it may be made out of... Haggis is pretty much nothing more than meat loaf. And fried Mars bars altho heart attacks on a fork, are very good.
Ok now on to other things. I have come to realize in the last several days that more people have actually been reading this thing then I had previously thought. This surprised me, in a good way, but it surprised me. I would like to thank you guys for reading and for your comments and emails and such, they make my day. :) And if you have any questions, or have been wondering about things I havent mentioned, or want certain types of pictures posted, or want to know more about something just let me know. And for those of you who have been wondering, I do actually know how to recieve packages now. I finally caught the porters at the desk... took long enough but I pulled it off.
I do officially have a suitable coat for this climate. As you can see from the pictures its bright obnoxious green and I love it! And its water proof. And after 2 very cold and wet practicals this week, when certain classmates saw me with the coat they cheered.
As far as classes go, I am rather overwhelmed by one, just because I really have no background in the subject and really dont know what is expected of me in it. The other two I am sure I am missing something, but I atleast have some background, and some very coopertive teachers and classmates. Labs so far have been alot of fun.
As far as extra curricular activities go, as some of you may know there have been some major ups and downs. But all and all both Sen No Kai and Fencing have been a lot of fun. Most noteably the last fencing social that started with bowling and ended at the pub. I bowled probably the best 2 games I have ever bowled, which is leading to me being required to fence sabre Wednesday, oh well. Then at the pub things escalated into things like the "i have never" game in which only about half the group participated, but all of us found out some very interesting things. I have now also been drunk in Scotland officially.
To any fencers reading this, plans are underway to possibly let me get a better understanding of the internal workings of their club, and also to make sure I leave here knowing most of their really fun drills :)
This weekend, Wyoming and I went to Glasgow and Linlithgow. Glasgow was almost disasterous, partially because due to the fencing club social absolutly no planning went into the trip at all. We pretty much just showed up at the bus station and hopped on the first bus that went to Glasgow.... and did not look at the bus number... ever... so then we were trying to get home, and we are at the Buchannon bus station which has something near 60 bus stalls, not to mention the number of busses there....it was not our best move. But anyways we visited the Makintosh lighthouse, the Glasgow Cathedral, and the People's Palace and Winter Gardens. Overall we were not impressed with Glasgow, Edinburgh was amazing, and Glasgow was kind of disapointing. Where Edinburgh embraces the historic parts of the town, Glasgow seems to want to forget about them, there isnt even a bus that runs to the stop by the Cathedral anymore. We didnt get to see all of the Cathedral due to the "Boys Brigade" festivities. But we will probably be back to Glasgow anyways to look at some of the things we didnt have time to find on Saturday.
Sunday's trip was brought about by an "ooooooo shiny object" moment on the train to Edinburgh last week. The intricate spier structure on the top of the Church that you can see, when not in shadow is silver/white, and can be seen from the train station. Wyoming and I wanted to know what it was, and looked it up, and decided to visit it. The Linlithgow Palace is amazing. Like Doune castle, it has been left for the most part as it originally was. It was great. But once again, we were unable to see inside the church because ANOTHER Boys Brigade festivity was going on. They seem to be following us, especially since that was a very random combination of towns that we visted this weekend.
I think that is all this week. It doesn't seem like a whole lot for some reason, but if I missed something I am sure you will hear about it later. Take care!
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