Snow has finally come to Edinburgh! It is currently in the form of slush, but I have wellys so I am all good. I am happy to report that I have finished knitting my scarf, so my neck will be nice and warm for the duration of my stay here (And in Paris, and back in New York and in Boston).
Time is doing that thing where it flies fast again. It is a week until my 21st birthday, less then three weeks before I leave Edinburgh, and less then a month before I head back to the states. I can't articulate how I feel about it. It's almost like how it was right before I headed off to my semester here: I can't quite believe it is happening, so I can't quite react to it yet. Though, it feels a bit more frantic now: That- I HAVE SO MUCH TO DO STILL BUT OH MY GOSH I DON'T HAVE ENOUGH TIME. I feel like I haven't taken advantage of my stay here, though know I so totally have: I've travelled to a bunch of the cities around Scotland (Though I somehow missed Glasgow? I plan to rectify that soon), I've gone to Dublin and Belfast, and I will be going to Paris and London. I also have built up a tidy list of the cities I want to visit when I come back to Europe. Besides traveling I have tried a bunch of new foods, learned some new slang, and explored Edinburgh well enough that when someone asks me for directions I can give it to them! (Kinda, sorta. The street names here are weird in that they don't stay the same for more then a hundred meters). If people came to visit me, I would even be able to given them a super awesome tourist experience (A post on that will be coming soon, I promise!). So yeah- I have done a lot, so I should stop worrying about that...um...sorry about that weird little interlude. Just trying to justify all the hours I spent on youtube :D
I also made some kick-ass friends who are giving me lots more excuses to travel because I get to visit them!
Speaking again of traveling (I am so bad at segueing my way across this blog post. Please excuse my poor writing. I will post a story soon to make up for it. Possibly. Maybe), as I said before, I went to Belfast last weekend!
A quick summery of the trip:
We arrived. We walked around. We went on a mural tour of the Catholic and Protestant sides of West Belfast. We walked around some more. We saw where the Titanic was built. We walked some more. Primark! We had dinner. We slept. We woke up. We went to St. George's Market. More walking. Katherina and Alex left :( We had dinner. We went to a christmas market. We went to an IRA bar for traditional music. We crashed a birthday party. Back to bed. To Port Stewart to See Katherina, Alex, and now Caroline! It hailed. We walked around the beach. We walked over sand dunes and oh my gosh was it so pretty! Back to an apartment. German cookies! Dinner! Music! Fun! Back to Hostel. To Giant's Causeway. cold cold cold. Soup! Bus! Train! Plane! Home.
I am sure that was as exciting for you as it was for me. It actually was a nice four days, though the Port Stewart segment was 10x more beautiful, fun and cold then the Belfast part. It was a lovely time with some lovely people and I would repeat the experience- albeit not at the beginning of December :x
Picture time!
(That's a Library)
Okay. I am going to turn my internet off and actually try and get some work done. I love and miss you all and can't wait to see/hear from you!
