Tuesday 18 January 2011

first night in my flat

This is a photo of Edinburgh castle and the grassmarket while it was snowing and I was walking.

I moved into my flat the morning after I took this photo. The building complex is three buildings all with student flats. There was three other American that moved in with me in the same Building complex that I have not seen since I have moved in, which is weird because my building only has about seven flats in it. My very abroad provider orientation leaders were completely right. I moved in and quitly felt alone and isolated (which was not fun).  I could tell if anyone else was living in my flat yet, all the doors were locked but there was snoring coming from some where. But to stem off insainity I desided to go out and try to buy some things I needed for my room: pillow, blanket, food, jelly, those types of things. So I went out walking, got lost a block away from my flat, 15 minutes later found myself and started to look at what the shops on the street had to offer. Half of the shops are like bike repair and small markets, that sell milk and Scotlands highest selling soda IRN BRU which is a mix of bubble gum and orange soda. I walked into some Americans from my group and together we acheived every little. We found and went to some shops and the only real buys that we all made was pillows and lined note books for our classes. After several hours of walking I returned to my flat just in time to meet one of my flat mates, then leave to go to an international students dinner shin dig. The dinner was a good way to get a free meal, but other than that nothing fantastic other then meeting a very attractive friendly fellow country lady of my sisters boyfriend. When I went back to my flat, my flat mate was hanging his head out a window calling my name to come meet people. I went up stairs and met about a dozen first year students all europeans. I spent the rest of the night talking to those guys proving the orientations leaders little graph wrong. Then I spent the night wearing all the cloths I brought with me because my room was a icebox.

2 comments:

  1. So...I'm thinking some fine single malt scotch mixed with the bubble gum and orange soda will make a fine beverage to warm you up at night.

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  2. Either that or give you a nice little heart attack. Its not bad after you drink about a gallon of it, its just really sweet and highly carbonated.

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