Saturday, 15 January 2011

Last few days of orientation

So I think orientation was only a like 4 days but I can't remember felt like more. Kind sucks I cant remember cause it was only like six days ago. My study abroad group were staying in the grassmarket right outside Edinburgh castle. This was the general area where J.K. Roling wrote out the plots of the Harry Potter books. It was kind of cool you could see all of her inflences in the area. So right behind my hotel there was a pivate childrens school in a old massive palace and all the little kids wear uniforms (wonder that place was in the Harry Potter books).
The day before our last day in orientation we had a Scottish police officer come in and give us the low down about the things to stay away from in the city so we dont die. Well it turns out their is about zero crime in the city. Going to college in the States between south Boston and Mattapan, I thought he was making a joke. ope he was completly serious. He told us the main thing we should look out for is unathletic people in athleteic clothing becuase those are the stero typicall looking criminals in the UK. Oh and also women with pony tails on the tops of their heads because they are bad news. He also told us if we thought someone had spiked your drinks that we were wrong because we most likly spiked our own drinks. We also shouldnt go see the police about those things because they have better things to do with their time then to listen to stupid kids with hangovers telling them that they had been drugged. I thought that was pretty funny because he was mostly directing that part to the women of the group, who were playing the "I have no idea what you arre talking about" card with the officer (they knew).
The night before my abroad groups were supposed to move into our flats our very very pregnant orientation leader (im talking over nine month or something, very pregnant) was nice enough to show us a graph of how we will feel now we will be on our own. The graph went alot like this; you are the happiest now in orientation, then you will want to kill your self when you move in to your flat, then in a couple of weeks it will get alittle better. Then when theres only a couple of weeks left in the program you might be (maybe) a little less happy as you were in orientation. Then of course when you get back in the United States you will drop into a huge pit of depression. But the really bad thing was that her face was completly seriouos the entire time (I think it was the hormones).

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