Kelvingrove Museum

Settling in

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August 23rd 2006
I can’t believe I’ve been here for almost one week now. I’ll try to do a brief synopsis of what I’ve done since I’ve arrived. With a lot of help from the extremely friendly Scottish people I made it to the school campus safe and sound. On Friday (my first full day in the city), I went shopping for groceries and had a general roam around town. The campus I live in is right downtown ( ... read more

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Great Britain, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the ear... ... read more