Wednesday, the day of many choices...

Hello hello! Back at the library again and so much to share!

After i posted last, i spent the rest of the day hiking arthur's seat, this huge crag that is the remains of an old volcano. It was amazing! The views were spectacular. You can see the whole city from the top, now i have a much better picture of edinburgh in my head!

Yesterday we had nothing official to do, so Liz and I walked to find the neighborhood where we were told we could get cheap but fresh fruits and veggies. It was awesome, many cute little organic grocery shops and lots of boutiques. We also found out it's the area many upperclassmen have flats. Very fun adventure.
<--me, Julie, Liz
Next we went to the freshers week trade fair where lots of local businesses come and have booths and give away free stuff - we love free stuff! Pens and posters and post its, yipee! (That would have cost me about $10 otherwise!)

Last night we were going to go on a freshers week pub crawl, but it ended up getting canceled or something so we just went on our own! Julie took us to a fun "old man's pub" that had a nice atmosphere and we watched a thing on tv about freddie mercury (they showed the clip from radio ga ga at live aid and i thought of robin!) we ended the night at this little club right downt he street from my flat. it was great, not very crowded, and we just danced all night - pretty much till the place closed at 3! We met some really funny scandinavian oil riggers named odon and horvar (between the accent and the name itself i had to have him repeat that like 3 times... lol).

Courtney, me, Mary, P.A.

Today has been pretty hectic. They're having a huge sports fair and society (what they call clubs) fair for the freshers. Everything looks so fun! I think I'm going to try mountaineering for sure, great way to explore scotland and learn something new! And then it might be fun to join the "sub aqua" club to get some diving in - they have some great wreck dives up in northern scotland dad. It will be pretty chilly though! Archery would be cool, they had a set up and let you try it - i got worse with every shot i took lol. But i think i'll have to pass on that (every sport club has around $15 joining fee, and plus there's the time issue) They held the sport fair at the gym, so we got a tour while we were there and it's a really nice facility - tons more machines than at northwestern! Then we went to the societies fair, and omg there were so many!!! There's everything from a wine society to english lit society - politics, the arts, hobbies, everything! I need to look over all the pamphlets i picked up, but i think i am for sure going to join one called People and the Planet - they do all kind of things campaigning for the environment, human rights, and poverty issues. I'll also probably join the lit one and this arts and creative writing one. Most of them just meet once a week, so it won't be too time consuming. It will be interesting to see how my schedule actually turns out once class starts!

Speaking of class, i met with my DOS (director of studies) to confirm my classes the other day. I'm officially taking celtic lit, scottish lit, and architectural history. I'm super excited for all of them. I have class every day of the week, but only one on friday that only goes till 12 so that will be nice. And i don't have class before 11 = )
<-- Teviot (our union) on L, McEwan Hall center

Ok, that's it for now, miss you all!

oooh and by the way, the weather is still amazing! sunny and beautiful (watch now im jinxing it) but it is still cold at night in my room especially, looking forwards to the flannel sheets from mom! they dont turn on the heaters till october brrrrrrrr

~R

p.s. in regards to my mobile number, thanks to mom and carole's corrections, you have to dial 011 44 before the 7962639484 part.