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So.
I just got back from a month-long vacation in Scotland.
It was't exactly a vacation - more of a study abroad kind of program - but the workload was light enough and interesting enough to make it a pleasure to do most assignments, and we had plenty of free time for sight-seeing. We stayed in Stirling, a wonderful little town with it's own castle, and I ranged far and wide over the country. Went to Loch Ness, toured Edinbourgh, saw the boarding school JK might have based Hogwarts after - even met a few people who'd actually met her!
It was just - so green over there. I live in a fairly temperate zone - winter's our green month, when the rain brings everything to life. Over here - it's tan and brown most of the time. All that green was really something. The land was old. Living in the US, barely two hundred years old, something over a century is considered ancient, There - it was older. I almost couldn't comprehend the age of some of the artifacts I was introduced to.
Plus, the course was in Warfare in the Middle Ages. Lots of people running around smacking each other with swords. Such fun to learn.
Now I'm back.
I just got back from a month-long vacation in Scotland.
It was't exactly a vacation - more of a study abroad kind of program - but the workload was light enough and interesting enough to make it a pleasure to do most assignments, and we had plenty of free time for sight-seeing. We stayed in Stirling, a wonderful little town with it's own castle, and I ranged far and wide over the country. Went to Loch Ness, toured Edinbourgh, saw the boarding school JK might have based Hogwarts after - even met a few people who'd actually met her!
It was just - so green over there. I live in a fairly temperate zone - winter's our green month, when the rain brings everything to life. Over here - it's tan and brown most of the time. All that green was really something. The land was old. Living in the US, barely two hundred years old, something over a century is considered ancient, There - it was older. I almost couldn't comprehend the age of some of the artifacts I was introduced to.
Plus, the course was in Warfare in the Middle Ages. Lots of people running around smacking each other with swords. Such fun to learn.
Now I'm back.