Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Day 2?

I'm not sure of what day it is, if we count Sunday or not. I guess we should so that means that this is really day 3. I'm at the library in Stonehaven unsure how long I'm allowed to stay on so this won't be a super long post. For the day's I'm unable to post I'm writing my journal entry in my liberal arts math notebook, I didn't take a lot of notes for that class, so there's lots of paper still. I'll probably go through later and type those entries out at some point, maybe when I have wifi or at the latest when I get home from Scotland. I love Scotland, it's a simple fact. The land is beautiful and the towns are homey feeling. I ate lunch at a delicontessa with Mara and Katelynd. The woman who was there was very nice and helpful. I love that they say bye bye. Americans have to say everything as quickly as possible and make every word as short as possible. I also enjoyed listening to the music playing over head while we ate there. It was cool. I know it's not just 'Scottish' music playing but I liked the feel of it and the variety I was able to listen to as well.
Since it's only day 3 there are no real issues yet. I like everyone so far. I didn't think I would like the fact that the girls are in the minority but it's nice. The guys are amusing to be around and I know as the trip gets more under way, they won't get catty or cause drama. That is always a wonderful plus. Since I know Cartrite is going to at least look over this is not fully read it, I'll keep some of my thoughts on this topic to myself :)
EDIT:
After we walked back to the hotel, we saw a few of the guys from our trip talking to a Scotsman named Davey Jaimeson. We talked with him for about 1.5- 2 hours. He was very amusing to talk with and to listen to. He told me I was very pale, suprise on that one, and I had beautiful blue eyes. He was really surprised we all have such 'beautiful' teeth. Davey loved commenting on our teeth. The boys were giving him a hard time at points but he always threw it right back. He was a good enough guy, I enjoyed him.
At dinner we ate at the heugh hotel, which looks like a castle. It is an amazing looking place. After dinner, we listened to a presentation about photography presented by Ken's friend Andi Hall. His photos were fantastic, and I wanted to buy some of them to hang on my wall, but not a whole book. The questions following the presentation were really good and the answers were very insightful considering he's only done photography for a portion of his life, but I really had to go to the bathroom, not pleasant at all having to sit there and listen.
Following dinner afew of us went to the Market Bar. Eventually all 19 of us ended up at the bar together. When we first got there, Sam, Katelynd, and I talked with a man from Glasgow. Even he said the Aberdonins were people not to be messed with as have all the people we've talked with in Stonehaven about the Aberdonins. He was pleasant to chat with, but we didn't catch his name. He was in Stonehaven on business and would so be traveling to London on business as well. It was nice to talk and have fun as a group with everyone there. I think we all had a really good time getting to know eachother more. We also watched a man balance a coster with two forks holding on the coster on his pint of beer and then he drank from it. It was quite impressive to say the least. At about 11:30 Mara, Katelynd, Jeff, and I headed back for our hotel while some others decided to go to another bar. My two drinks were enough for me.

1 comment:

  1. Who are the Aberdonins?

    You do have nice teeth. Thank you painfully awkward years of braces.
    Can there be pictures in the blog posts? is that too much?
    I want people tags so that I can identify people when I read this...ex. Chelsea, the first comment leaver, fjldfjlsfjdls.

    I'm glad you love Scotland and are getting to meet all of these new people. Make the most of it and be awesome!

    Chelsea

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