Day Twelve:

Second day of freshers week and after a sweaty night of dancing I had to just go to the gym and relax in the steam room they have here. There is an app here called "student recommend" and it gives students so many deals including eating free meals at different restaurants:

This meal was so good and I paid approximately £0 for it! 

Today was Chris' 21st birthday and afcourse we wanted to make it a good one so Cooper and I took him to this place to get the above food. It was on us, eventhough it was free. We met up with a couple of people and then took him to Jinty McGintys and we enjoyed one awesome night of Alex the local artist here who can sing just about any song! The pub scene is a lot better than the club scene here because of the live music! 

Day Eleven:

Today I picked up our freshers passes and then got underway with the activities. I cannot begin to explain how many coupons, flyers and random stuff I got. It was as if I was good and everyone campaigning were seaguls on the beach! We went to the beer bar in the GUU and did a quiz about general knowledge, sports and other topics. The only thing is. We don't know much about Scottish knowledge! It was quite funny hearing the actual answers versus ours. The night started our first big event by going to a concert held by Twin Atlantic who were pretty good to be honest! If I could post videos on this blog I would have so much more to show.

When they were done we waited an hour and a half just to see HODOR. Now if you're like me who don't watch Game of Thrones. You will also have no idea who he is. But he is an actor who plays a big role in the series and apparently a DJ as a side job. 

Day Ten:

I am beginning to think that my days aren't exactly matching up with my blog but I will nevertheless continue. I think today was pretty much just a relaxing day and freshers week has begun which means all the freshman have now moved in and to be quite honest it is very hard seeing someone who is 18 move into the same place as you when you are 21. Yikes! It is a Sunday so everyone just took it easy before the big week begins! There is a huge debate going on because of the referendum and so we decided to go to our debate chamber in one of the student unions. It was packed!! And the speakers truly sounded like braveheart when they started saying they want "freedom". It was interesting seeing college students care so much about something that could be a historical moment for their country: 

Day Nine:

Brandon called me about half 10 and told me that we are going to the coast. I am all for spontaneous events such as these but I was still really tired. We were a group of 8 and took a train to a place called Lags. As we were going through the countryside it really started to resemble the Scotland that everyone thinks of. Sheep. Sheep. Green hills. And more sheep. When we got to Lags we decided to have some fish and chips and I thought it was good but everyone else seemed to not like it. Here are a couple of pictures of the coast line and where we walked around: 

Near the middle of this long walkway we saw a massive church built in 1892. The lady inside the church was so friendly and helped us your the church and gave us some information about it. 

These stained glass windows are so vibrant and clear and they say that this church has never been revamped or touched. It's amazing how new it still looks. 

Another awesome thing about Scotland is their double cone ice cream. Pure genius. 

We were all just enjoying the little sun we get and passed out on the lawn while watching a group of 30 wee laddies play football. We also came to the conclusion that no matter where you are kids will be kids and do stupid things. 

Day Eight:

I had to wake up early to get on a bus to Loch Lomond. The school here has a partner program with a local tour group and so I met my tour guide Gary and off we went. It was an hour and a half to the first stop and Gary told us some stories about famous myths of the lake which I quite enjoyed. 

Our second stop for the day was another branch of the Loch:

When we got to our third and final stop, Gary told us a 2nd story about Selkies. They are seals that turn into human and then back into seals. Amazing what people can come up with. Our last stop was Luss and it was a wee village where we witnessed a wedding and just enjoyed the views: 

I slept every opportunity I got while I was on the bus and the day trip was very successful because it really showed me a bit about the countryside of Scotland. 

Day Seven:

Today was just a relaxing day where the sun seemed to have graced our lives with such beauty. Scotland hasn't given us rain yet! Knock on wood. Connor and I ended up just relaxing in the sun at he botanical gardens and falling asleep. Mid afternoon naps are something that needs to be more common. 

I don't necessarily have any pictures for the day because there wasn't much going on. I ended up going to the gym and after that I had a bus your where it took us around downtown and some of the outskirts of glasgow. I saw some interesting modern art buildings and got an espresso which absolutely was the worst thing I've ever had. 

Mattie seems to have caught a cold and I now have it too. I did however try haggis which is a speciality here in glasgow: 

But other than that it was just a sunny afternoon: 

Day Six:

Most of the international orientation is over but I have to be honest registration here isn't all that easy. We have to get individual signatures from each professor if you want to enroll into the class. Today we had a meeting with the Pipes professor and it looks to me like I will be learning bagpipes this quarter! The weather here has been great with sunshine everyday, which is going to make it harder when it just pours down rain constantly. So far I've seen many cats and foxes around the campus and a lot of people out and about. They don't believe in shorts however because even on a hot day like today people are just rolling up their pants. I went to the botanical garden again which seems to be the place everyone goes to take an afternoon nap whenever the sun is out. I got some ice cream that had FLAKE in it which was so good. For those who don't know what flake is, it's a thin straw like chocolate here in the UK. 

At night I got invited to a pizza party with three French people who were so nice! The group got bigger as the night progressed and we ended up at Jinty's McGintys which is a local bar with love music! 

There was also an interesting band that was playing there soon so I might go see them: