Today was a pretty big day for me - it was my first day at Kelsey! Classes started at 8.15, so I had to be up early. Not so much fun.... But we got there, and Mark, the director, sat everyone down for a little assembly to talk over the rules and make sure everybody knew where we were going. After that, we headed to our separate classrooms. The class you're assigned to stays in the same room and with the same people for classes, with only the teachers changing. Nellie, my first hour teacher, launched right into a lesson on [View Full Entry]

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If you haven't already done so, you should all go see the video I posted with the last entry, which will show you around the apartment! OK, so every building here has a water tank that only fills up once a week, and you have to be careful not to run out of water before then, otherwise you can't flush the toilet or brush your teeth or do anything else that requires water. Wednesday, today, is our water day. So we scrub down the apartment and do all the laundry on Wednesdays. Or so we thought. Now, I just got my [View Full Entry]

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It's hard to believe I've only been here for three days, it's been such a whirlwind. So let's start at the beginning. August 5th - I headed off to the airport, and after finally finding the right terminal, discovered that I had one bag too many, and that bag would cost me nearly $1000 in excess weight to bring with me. So I left it in London, and I'm still trying to figure out how to get it here. My plane was delayed almost an hour, but once we boarded, everything went smoothly. We flew over the Alps, which was breathtaking, [View Full Entry]

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Well, tomorrow afternoon I leave for Jordan, officially bringing my summer holiday to a close. I flew up to London to stay with Sue, my mum's friend, for the last few. I spent the day at the house, talking with her kids and meeting some of her friends that dropped by. On Sunday, we went to Oxford Street to do a little shopping - it was mobbed. We got to the store 15 minutes after it had opened, and it was already packed to the gills with people. It was really nice to see more of London, as we were traveling [View Full Entry]

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As of now, I'm back in Scotland for a few days after a lovely week in Ireland. The weather was beautiful - sunny and warm pretty much the whole time. Lorne, BT and I spent Saturday driving through to countryside to see Sligo, Yeats's grave, and a waterfall tucked away near the coast. We also went to see a massive lake nearby Edgeworthstown, which is the focus of a few Irish myths involving swans. Most of the places we went I couldn't pronounce the name, let alone remember them, unfortunately. But it was still gorgeous. France was supposed to be these [View Full Entry]

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I know it's been a while, but due to internet issues and software issues with my camera, I haven't been able to update until now. So, not long after my last post, Katie and I headed up to Stirling to see the castle during our afternoon off. Stirling has been my favorite for years now, ever since the first time I saw it nearly 7 years ago. I found that I'm as much in love with it as ever. Katie left two days later to return to the States, and is currently in Poland for two weeks. After Katie left, I [View Full Entry]

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Well, my first post. Katie and I just got back from a beautiful roadtrip to Tighnebruaich, a small community way up north in Scotland. We're going to be working with the Maxie Richards Foundation, so we went up to see King's Court, where some of the guys are staying. We got to see the Kilbride Church, which has been stripped down and offered up for Maxie's use, and the site of where we hope to be able to open another house like King's Court, but for women. The majority of the 2 or so hour trip was spent remarking on the [View Full Entry]

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