Okay, so I know what you're thinking. That I really suck at this whole blog updating thing, which is true. But I do have an excuse! I've been waiting to post because I've been waiting for my beautiful package from home to come here so I can have a camera cord and can upload pictures! Because I really wanted to post some pictures.
24 days and counting...and still no package.
Kaitlin: 2 packages. Michelle: 0 packages.
Clearly I must have offended the post office gods in a past life. Further evidence of this? Today I checked my mail and had a letter from parcel force worldwide. And it said they had my package! At their "depot". Very nice and ambiguous that is. And I have to pay 18.75 pounds to get my package. What?!?!
I really want to boycott this, but on the other hand I really want my package so....shucks. Why post office gods, why??
Anyway...quick update. I was going to post all about Glasgow and our epic train ride. Epic in the sense that we got to the train station an hour early and then when the train finally pulled up and we walked up to it, we were told we missed it! Excuse me, how can you miss a train when it is right in front of you? But after a bit of desperation and running we got on it.
But Glasgow was fantastic. It was great to see and chill with Lael. And it was absolutely gorgeous weather and Glasgow Uni IS Hogwarts. Really. Oh! And we made cookies. Really strange ones but I thought they were awesome.
Hmm, what else. I've been going to a lot of rehearsal and not a lot of class, which is nice. :)
Last Thursday I went to Morecombe Bay with my Ecology class and we really just hiked and walked around. It was so beautiful there! It was sunny and cool and the bay was really gorgeous. One minute into the hike I slipped in the mud and just got mud caked all over my pants/my right glove/my backpack. I'm sure everyone was impressed with my grace. One of my favorite parts was seeing this vibrant green pasture with sheepies and a stone wall fence. It felt like Pride and Prejudice (I keep thinking that when I'm here--it's fun!).
This last Tuesday was pancake day! Which I guess is when you are supposed to eat all of your junkie type food before Ash Wednesday. So after rehearsal I went into town with some British students and went to some people's house and made pancakes! Now British pancakes aren't really pancakes. They're crepes. Or really they or more like really confused pancakes that think they are crepes. Because they don't taste like crepes, they taste like pancakes, but they are all thin and everything. Then they roll them up with lemon and sugar and eat them. It's delicious! But not pancakes. Me and Yumi (who is Japanese/American/British?) made American pancakes from scratch. So good! And all the British people really enjoyed them. Dot and I tried to make a ginormous pancake (aka "the biggest pancake in the world!") but we couldn't quite get it to flip, which was pretty tragic. But it was a really fun night, spent making pancakes and watching House. I also somehow managed to lose my phone! Que triste! Holly and I ended up catching a bus back to Uni at about 1 am. And I had class at 9 am!
So I got 4 hours of sleep, so yesterday I was pretty tired. Then somehow I ended up going out with Amy (my flatmate) and some of her Colorado friends and Kaitlin. We went to this super sleazy skeazy place called the Carelton. We missed the first bus, made the second one, then had to wait forever out in the snow (!!!!!) to get into the place. Plus it was 4 pounds to get in. Yikes. So we get there and it's all club-like and everything, and there's a ridiculous number of people there. I couldn't believe how many people that place could hold.
But despite all that it was still way fun and kinda surreal going out on a Wednesday. I'd been told you had to go to the Carelton once and...now I've done it!
Yep, so that's probably everything. I'm sure I'm missing quite a few things, like going out for "cheeeeese and wine!" with my cast at this nice pub called the Sun where Dickens is said to have spent time drinking! And eating delicious cupcakes every wednesday!
Ciao for now!
I will leave you with a picture of me and Lael in Glasgow! Stolen from Lael's pictures because I alas can't yet upload pictures.
