More Adventures from Scotland
Wow I can't believe I have already been here over a week the time is flying by on one hand and on the other I feel like I have had so many experiences already. Life is good here, I'm having so much fun being a tourist by day and enjoying the crazy night life here by night. Seriously the whole city is a party on the weekends, every pub and club is packed and people are out dancing on the streets. Everywhere we go there are beautiful boys, who love to kiss us american girls on the cheeks and tell us how beautiful we are, my head is so huge rigth now I don't know if it will fit back on the plane. I love touring here and being a history major I have a lot of appreciation for the deep history, tradition, and folk lore that we are experiencing. So far we have toured the Edinburgh castle, Holyrood palace, the royal gallery, the national musuem, the royal mile, st. andrews, new town, parliament, and more to come with our trip to the highlands this weekend: I can't wait I hear it is absolutly beautiful out there.
This weekend we had a lot of fun, the city is starting to gear up for the festival so there are more people here in Edinburgh now and some of the minor festivals have started. This weekend saw the kick off of the jazz festival so my flat mates and myself had a lot of fun wandering around the city dancing and listening to free music, very classy. I think Scotland is definitely expanding my musical taste; while I have yet to experience the joys of Scottish rap I now am very much in love with jazz and bagpipes and ballads. The festival pulled thousands of people into the streets and it was so cute to see the old people swing dancing in the streets. It was like a sence out of the Notebook; seeing old people dance like they were just as in love with each other as the day they met. We already have tickets to four shows during the fringe festival and we plan to get a few more including getting tickets to see our new Aussie friends in Mcbeth revitalized. We met these people in the park a few days ago when we decided to go hang out there after class and there was a big group of people playing football (soccer) and they invited us to play with them. While we were all running around and playing we found out that they are a company of actors here for the festival, how cool! Then we randomly ran into them at the bar the next night and they bought us some drinks and we all hung out. ANd now one of my flate mates is hooking up/dating one of the guys in the play so we see him everyday and most of the others every few day; so basically they invited us to their show and we are all mates now. Its going to be so fun to go see a show here where we actually now the people. Yesterday we went to the royal gallery of scotland.
Let's see last story, geez this may be my longest livejournal ever but I have so much to saw about everything. SO Saturday night we went out to the three sisters, which is like the biggest bar I have ever seen. Its actually three bars in one, an American bar, a Scottish bar, and an English bar and a huge dance floor. We were all dancing (all my classmates) and I went and requested from the window to the wall but they didn't have that so instead I told the DJ to play some American hip hop and he playesd Usher "yeah" anyways we were having a grand time getting down and talking to lots and lots of boys. But then it started raining outside so all the people from the patio came rushing inside and it was packed and I got kinda shoved up against the bar area next to these pretty boys. And basically I was a little tipsy and I'm very bold here its all my inflated ego talking so I just started talking to one of the guys. ANd got introduced to all his mates, turns out they were from Ireland with the prettiest accents ever. About that time my friends managed to make their way over to me and we all started talking and hanging out together. The guy I was talking with is named Thomas and he is sooo cute. So anyways we went back to the dance floor once it cleared a little and started dancing and making out and stuff. Then we talked and talked and made out. then it was like one and the bars here close at one and then everyone goes to the clubs cause they stay open til 4. So Thomas asked me if I wanted to go to this club he knows, so we went there with half the group of guys and girls adn the other half went home/ went to do their own thing. Anyways Thomas is like the sweetest guy ever, he ended up buying me flowers from a street vender on the way back from the club. And we ended up gettting seperated from the group, which scared me bit because even though Thomas is nice I didn't want to get stranded at a club by myself with a strange boy. But we never found the rest of my girls, so Thomas ended up walking me all the way back to my flat and kinda coming up with me which I wasn't to sure about because he is still a stranger danger and I didn't want him to expect anything that wasn't going to happen. But the night ended up being magical so to speak, we had a great time and I made it home safe and Thomas and I stayed up until 7in the morning talking and making out. And then he went home and I talked to him later that day some more. But we haven't managed to meet up again, and he is going home today. So oh well, it was a fun night all in all. And that about raps it up for my adventures thus far, cheers!
This weekend we had a lot of fun, the city is starting to gear up for the festival so there are more people here in Edinburgh now and some of the minor festivals have started. This weekend saw the kick off of the jazz festival so my flat mates and myself had a lot of fun wandering around the city dancing and listening to free music, very classy. I think Scotland is definitely expanding my musical taste; while I have yet to experience the joys of Scottish rap I now am very much in love with jazz and bagpipes and ballads. The festival pulled thousands of people into the streets and it was so cute to see the old people swing dancing in the streets. It was like a sence out of the Notebook; seeing old people dance like they were just as in love with each other as the day they met. We already have tickets to four shows during the fringe festival and we plan to get a few more including getting tickets to see our new Aussie friends in Mcbeth revitalized. We met these people in the park a few days ago when we decided to go hang out there after class and there was a big group of people playing football (soccer) and they invited us to play with them. While we were all running around and playing we found out that they are a company of actors here for the festival, how cool! Then we randomly ran into them at the bar the next night and they bought us some drinks and we all hung out. ANd now one of my flate mates is hooking up/dating one of the guys in the play so we see him everyday and most of the others every few day; so basically they invited us to their show and we are all mates now. Its going to be so fun to go see a show here where we actually now the people. Yesterday we went to the royal gallery of scotland.
Let's see last story, geez this may be my longest livejournal ever but I have so much to saw about everything. SO Saturday night we went out to the three sisters, which is like the biggest bar I have ever seen. Its actually three bars in one, an American bar, a Scottish bar, and an English bar and a huge dance floor. We were all dancing (all my classmates) and I went and requested from the window to the wall but they didn't have that so instead I told the DJ to play some American hip hop and he playesd Usher "yeah" anyways we were having a grand time getting down and talking to lots and lots of boys. But then it started raining outside so all the people from the patio came rushing inside and it was packed and I got kinda shoved up against the bar area next to these pretty boys. And basically I was a little tipsy and I'm very bold here its all my inflated ego talking so I just started talking to one of the guys. ANd got introduced to all his mates, turns out they were from Ireland with the prettiest accents ever. About that time my friends managed to make their way over to me and we all started talking and hanging out together. The guy I was talking with is named Thomas and he is sooo cute. So anyways we went back to the dance floor once it cleared a little and started dancing and making out and stuff. Then we talked and talked and made out. then it was like one and the bars here close at one and then everyone goes to the clubs cause they stay open til 4. So Thomas asked me if I wanted to go to this club he knows, so we went there with half the group of guys and girls adn the other half went home/ went to do their own thing. Anyways Thomas is like the sweetest guy ever, he ended up buying me flowers from a street vender on the way back from the club. And we ended up gettting seperated from the group, which scared me bit because even though Thomas is nice I didn't want to get stranded at a club by myself with a strange boy. But we never found the rest of my girls, so Thomas ended up walking me all the way back to my flat and kinda coming up with me which I wasn't to sure about because he is still a stranger danger and I didn't want him to expect anything that wasn't going to happen. But the night ended up being magical so to speak, we had a great time and I made it home safe and Thomas and I stayed up until 7in the morning talking and making out. And then he went home and I talked to him later that day some more. But we haven't managed to meet up again, and he is going home today. So oh well, it was a fun night all in all. And that about raps it up for my adventures thus far, cheers!