mcdonald's in edinburgh is like a sweet coffee shop.

Jun 11, 2008 05:45

yesterday was the last day in edinburgh. we woke, had class in the hotel, and then toured the queen's palace. it's basically her "summer home in scotland" - it was magnificent. incredible architecture. but that's pretty much everything in this city. then e.b. and i wandered around the city finding small vintage stores with clothes i wish i owned. then we went on the underground "mary king's close" tour. basically roamed around underground city streets. it was really strange but incredible interesting.

i'm currently aboard my first train ride. i am sitting at a quaint table with bridget, e.b., and jamie. my partial posse of this trip. (the others including: chelsea, chelsey, laura - sometimes, jill - sometimes, britney - sometimes.)

we arrived at the station and found our way to platform 9. we boarded the cart and i'm sitting at a table with my laptop looking at the window waving goodbye to scotland. the song "chicago" by sufjan was playing on the ipod at the exact right moment, followed by arcade fire. perfect.

i really enjoyed my stay in scotland. from glasgow to skye to edinburgh - it was an incredibly beautiful area. edinburgh as a city was amazing. the "nightlife" was completely different from dublin, but i met some interesting people and made some good friends here.

we will be pulling into london in about 2 hours and we'll be staying there for 9 days, which is the longest place we'll be in during this trip. my sister has sent me some links and information about the city - she did live in london for about 8 months, so i'm excited to see what she suggested. tonight is chelsea's birthday so after we check-in the hotel, we'll be out celebrating. my friend scott from high school is in london right now too, so i'm trying to contact him to meet up. it's so difficult without a phone.

i really like some of the girls on this trip. others i could have gone without knowing. i'm not used to being around this many girls. i normally avoid situations like this. but, there is such a diverse group of us that it makes it interesting. we have the group of sorority girls, the sloppy sketchy alcoholic slut, the crazy party group of girls, the good girls who don't do anything but tour museums and go to sleep, and then somewhere in the middle of it all, i stand.

we almost missed our train due to brandon being late back to the hotel this morning because he was "out late" and never made it back. sketch. we make fun of him 24/7. poor kid.

phrases from the trip - some from us, some from people we met:
"legit. word."
"i'm trashy and i'm over it."
"girl, you can take a loan out for some fake boobies. i don't want them real soft shit, i want my boobies big and hard and fake. for real."
"that guy has moobs and i'm not cool with that."
"if i were a marine animal, i would be a shark... so i can sneak up on people in ships, pop out and scare the shit out of them, and then swim away."
"when god rested on the 7th day, he just let him take over for a while."

this is the bogus nonsense that we discuss after nights at the bars - also we sing at any moment we can. down the streets we sing so loudly. but when we're actually at the bars we have these intelligent conversations with locals we meet about america, the elections, our perspective and how it differs, the influence of the media in america vs. the UK, and etc. all because it is part of our project we are working on for danny's class. i love his actual class though. but our conversations have surrounded the elections so much it's intense. some people are beginning to get fed up with it - but i still enjoy listening. it pisses me off when people get puffed up about the conversation and get outrageous about it.

i had a mini-breakdown yesterday. through the combination of different information and various other factors, i had a breakdown within my own head. i just bottle everything up. it's not like i can just unleash on everyone why this and that is bothering me. no one here knows the people. nor do they know me very well - we all know each other as best we can spending 24/7 for the last 2 weeks. so i just shove the emotions down and keep exploring the unknown city in front of me. i've been good at that lately - whenever something is pissing me off, making me mad, making me sad - i just shove it down inside, pack it in, and keep a pretty positive attitude about things. this will probably have a negative result later - but i'm not worried about it right now. considering, i'm on a train to one of the largest cities in the world.

getting on facebook makes me mad. i want to boycott it for the rest of the trip.
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