Relocating, and midterm approaches

Ok I am going to try to be short and sweet, but I realized as I sat down to type this... that outside of the people here in Scotland with me, and a few of the people I have talked on the phone with, I have been doing a good job keeping a certain aspect of my world under the radar.

You all have been hearing about all the wonderful people I have been meeting, and all the fun I have been having. However, home life has not been so spectacular. So this is going to be the readers digest version of why I moved this week.

I started the semester with 4 flatmates, 3 boys, 1 other girl. 2 of the boys were native Scotsmen. These boys are where the trouble started. They were in fact such lovely examples of of the species, that the third boy who was from Spain not only left our flat, but left UNI after ONE WEEK. The biggest problem being that when the 2 boys were confronted about less than acceptable behavior, things of Spain's started disapearing. I was doing a fairly good job of flying under the radar and keeping my mouth shut I guess. Things weren't great, but they weren't horrible enough to justify the trouble of moving when I am only going to be here for one semester... And then we got 2 new flatmates....

Any one of the flatmates on their own, or any one of the behaviors alone would have been something to withstand.... but when I ended up with FIVE smoking, drinking, potheaded, rubbish hoarding, kitchen and bathroom disaster making, confetti throwing (no you dont want to know), loud, obnoxious, immature flatmates... things started going down hill. When I was having to wash my dishes in the bathroom because I couldnt even get TO the sink let alone into the sink... and when I was up till 5 am on a very regular basis.... and when you could smell our flat from 3 flights of stairs down.... and when I was loving my time here, but dreading going home at night.... something needed to change... and I knew better then to confront them... and was not quite prepared to follow one of the Sen No Kai boy's advice that involved "laxatives, and cling film on the toilets" so I put in for a room transfer...

Thus far it has been the best decision I made... I have no idea why I waited until midterm crunch to do it... but still best decision i made... I am still in the same building and same floor, but at opposite ends, so moving involved down 5 flights of stairs.... and returning up 5 flights of stairs, going both ways... I have not met all of the new flatmates yet... I have met a girl from Japan, and a girl from Alaska... the remaining 3 apparently consist of 2 boys and a girl from China... I think I have gotten the 2 best nights sleep since I got here... I think in this flat I am the loud obnoxious one, because I got in the habit of calling home at 2 am... and I always forget things so im always going in and out of doors... etc... nothing major but if that tells you how quiet the new flat is. I was actually doing homework in the kitchen earlier..

Anyways that is the big news for the week. Nothing real exciting, more bowling, more pubs, an international salsa thingy, moving and studying... that is about it. Pictures will come later... but I dont have internet in the new room yet and I cant remember to put them on a jump drive before I go to the computer lab so you will just have to wait for them.

Also, thank you guys once again for comments. I was once again surprised, in a good way, but surprised none the less at who I have found out to be reading this. (This weeks thank's is directed particularly at Rocky Ford and the fellow range nerd. ) :) Anyways I will be back to post pictures soon! Take care!