Blogs from Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

Hiya! My deepest apologies for not doing a more active job of keeping up with this blog; this cold/flu is totally kicking my butt. Mind you the only reason I was even contaminated was because of my lively weekend excursions, further detail will be given later. The last post looks like it's from the day before the house trip to the "Big Smoke" (London) so I'll start there... LONDON (FEBRUARY 17-20) Not quite sure about the rest of you but this gal is not a morning person. We were given strict orders to be ready and on the coach bus, that was taking us to Waverly Station, by the ungodly time of 6:30am! This might not sound like much but you try fighting for a shower at 5:00am with 34 other girls, plus trying to get ... read more

If you're wondering why it's been so long without an update, it's because the internet has been down since last Thursday. Perfect timing with huge projects for classes, right? So many of us had to go to the library to use the internet that we ended up crashing the internet there too...oops! The weekend was actually one of the most fun weekends I've ever had here at Dalkeith. Brandi and Katie were here all week and that was really fun, and I only had class Mon-Wed. After they left, we spent Saturday playing board games, eating Chinese food, and watching Elf and playing the games on the DVD (lame, yet so fun). Sunday we roasted chestnuts on the fire, did puzzles, played SPOONS (I accidentally injured Brian...oops again), and one of the program directors Moe made ... read more

Friday we went to Glasgow with our professor from Brit Civ, and it was awesome. We got to go to the Celtics stadium and get a tour, so I'll put up pictures of that eventually. We also went to a shop called Primark and it was HUGE with tons of cute clothes for incredibly cheap...like, cheaper than food. I wish we had more time to shop there, so I just may take a day trip to Glasgow some time with the girls and hit it up again! I suppose I should enlighten you all with what must be the most EMBARRASSING thing to have happened to me in Scotland so far. We were running late and right outside the train station, but it happened to be a bit rainy out and the sidewalks were very wet ... read more

This has been a crazy week so far...there has been so much drama! Monday night a lot of people decided to drink, and one girl we think got mild alcohol poisoning and another person (we aren't sure who but we all have an idea) threw up all over one of the bathrooms...wall, door, mirrors, floor...and our resident assistant had to clean it up because the person just left it. That made our resident director pretty mad and she said if anything else happens, this place will be dry. No problem for me, but that would make a lot of people mad! Then there is just drama going on in people's lives between people here or with people back home...another thing that happened is someone stole some candy bars that were for dessert last night and that ... read more

The Halloween party was really good. I heard the haunted house was really scary (I didn't go through) and they had opened up the old wine cellar and dungeons for it...I saw it as they were setting up and it was really creepy! My costume as Henry the chef went over great, but unfortunately he couldn't come. I showed him pictures though and he loved it. Overall I think it was a pretty good success. Alnwick was fantastic. We stopped at a couple other castles too (which were ruins) and then back to Alnwick where we had time to explore...it was so cool to see the spots where Harry Potter was filmed! I totally geeked out while there. The gardens were also beautiful; I didn't have time to see all of them but what I did ... read more