Craziness

These first two days have been extremely crazy, so I'm going to try and remember everything. Forgive me if this turns into a long post.

Our airplane landed at 730 in the morning, we go off and got through customs just fine and where meet by the stirling direct company to take us to the school. The driver talked to us nonstop there but it was really interesting, he talked about the history and different scottish things to do. We eventually arrived at the school and got to our flats. I was the first one at mine. I'm sharing it with four other people but we each have our separate rooms and a decent sized common room and kitchen. They had a box of food waiting for us. (When my flatmate Vinny arrived later, he was saddened by the fact that they had bread and jelly for us but no peanut butter, he bought some today). Heres a picture of the room:

Anyways so I unpacked and took a nap till noon, when two of my flatmates (Annie and Vinny) arrived. Vinny is very social and so is annie so we all went around to meet people and then decided to go explore town later after naps and showers. So at 230 a group of us explored a bit of the campus and then head to the Bridge of Allen which is a small town area nearby.

I ended walking back earlier then the rest of the group with a girl named Sarah, we explored the lake (loch) on campus tormenting some geese and ducks who thought we had food.

Then we headed to the welcome at the Airthery Castle, which involved us just getting drinks and mingling. So story time: We walked in and were in a line to get drinks and all i could see was glasses of wine, so i took one not to be rude and later on found out there was orange juice and soda that I cold of had, so basically i ended up having to hold on to a full glass of wine the entire time.

Afterwards a group of us headed to a recommended pub call Meadowpark, which was really quite nice. It had a lovely view. We hung around there for awhile, some people played pool most of us just watched and zoned out. Afterwards we walked back and had a pajama party in our room. Basically just a bunch of us hanging out trying to keep awake so that we would go to bed at a semi normal time.

6/12/2011

Woke up early this morning to go to an orientation of sorts, we had a walking tour of the campus, ate lunch outside and then went on a bus tour of Stirling and the surrounding area, just to give us a taste so we can decide what to explore later. We went to Bannockburn and Stirling Castle as well as a church in Dunblane and learned a small bit about the history of the area. We then did an informal tour of the city center of Stirling which included going to the nearby mall and then to the Tesco which is a really cheap grocery shop. The flatmates and I stocked up on some stuff and I got an areo bar!!! Then we came back for half an hour before we gathered a big group together to go to the william wallace pub, but by the time we got there they weren't serving food. So we went next door to an Italian place. Julia (a girl i met and hit it off with because of her doctor who tshirt) and I decided to split and Irn-Bru (pronounced Iron- brew) to try it. It is a scottish soft drink, which tastes delicous but it was very sweet so I don't think i could of drank a whole can. Afterwards half the group went back to the pub and the rest of us headed back. After we got back I ended up talking to Julia and Kim till almost eleven.

Now I am making this and preparing for my first day of class tomorrow...I still have to get a notebook. I will do that before class starts, since it doesn't start till two.

Sorry for the length of this, the next couple days will be shorter because they wont be as hectic.