I woke up this morning a little late—the hostel was providing breakfast at 8 am, and I woke up at 8:15. I wandered out into the group kitchen. The breakfast looked lovely—cereals, biscuits, croissants, and yogurts—but after two days of flying and an eight mile hike, I needed a shower. So I grabbed a biscuit on my way back to the showers. Bad idea: we hiked Ben Lomond today and it was a lot harder than I expected. But first we had a quick session of our literature class to talk about Robert Burns, the poet who wrote the words to “Loch Lomond,” which is a really great song that has been running constantly through my head while we were here. I like Burns’ poetry a lot because it has a good rhythm for being
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