This is my travel journal from my study abroad trip to the UK and France. The names of my teachers and classmates have been changed for privacy reasons.
DAY 14- June 2
More class. Yeah, yeah...but we went to the Taste of Scotland Show. Best. Show. Ever. And I'll tell you why, but first here's the rest of the day. My group sat in the lobby for three hours after class, writing our sketch to present tomorrow. See, it's a part of our group projects and we're supposed to write a skit about one of the books we read for class. While we were downstairs, the cleaning ladies got onto us about the state of our rooms.
Have I mentioned this yet? We're staying in a building on campus that seems to double as a hotel in the summer. In addition to our class, there's a lot of other people here for conferences and business things and stuff I don't know about. And they have people who come in to clean the rooms every day. It's making me antsy.
See, I understand it for things like taking out the trash and restocking the tea. But they come in and vacuum, mop, straighten things, make the beds...it makes me feel weird. Mostly because I'd rather make my own bed and pick up after myself. And I've spend the last year and a half playing the clean-up fairy for my roommates. So every time the cleaning staff shows up while I'm in my room, I feel awkward. I started hiding my dirty clothes under my bed until I forgot where I put them and panicked.
"Oh God! Aliens took my socks!"
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Day 14: The Taste of Scotland Show
- April 18, 2012
- By Lissy-Strata
Day 3: Horrible History and Other Stuff
- March 26, 2012
- By Lissy-Strata
This is my travel journal from my study abroad trip to the UK and France. The names of my teachers and classmates have been changed for privacy reasons.
DAY 3- May 22
Okay, so today we got up and had breakfast again. It was much simpler this time now that we knew what to do. Liz, Rebecca and I decided to get back on the green bus to try and climb the big hill. (Calton, I think it was.) It was raining, however, so we tried to find something else to do. We hung out at the mall for a bit, then decided to go on the tour again anyway. I mean, our ticket was good until two, so we might as well use that to our advantage.
The bus didn't go by the hill anyway. The road was blocked because of the rain so we just skipped Regent Road and went through Canongate. As soon as I can find either a scanner or a decent-sized map of the area I'll add it here, because that will make this story so much easier to understand. Alternatively, you could just look it up on Google Maps...
The tour hits a cul-de-sac at Our Dynamic Earth, a kind of museum about the history of the world, and noticed they had a film about astronomy narrated by David Tennant. (My inner fangirl went “eee!”) I doubt I'll get to go see it, though. That's fine. There's an awful lot to do here. Anyway, we got off the tour bus at the corner of Holyrood Road and St. Mary's Street. It began to rain, according to the rules of cosmic inconveniences, and it continued to rain for the duration of our walk.
We still had our maps of the tour, so it was easy to find our way. We went along Cowgate, under the South Bridge and the George IV bridge, turned past Greyfriar's Bobby, and went to the National Museum of Scotland. This was when the rain decided to stop.
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The tour hits a cul-de-sac at Our Dynamic Earth, a kind of museum about the history of the world, and noticed they had a film about astronomy narrated by David Tennant. (My inner fangirl went “eee!”) I doubt I'll get to go see it, though. That's fine. There's an awful lot to do here. Anyway, we got off the tour bus at the corner of Holyrood Road and St. Mary's Street. It began to rain, according to the rules of cosmic inconveniences, and it continued to rain for the duration of our walk.
We still had our maps of the tour, so it was easy to find our way. We went along Cowgate, under the South Bridge and the George IV bridge, turned past Greyfriar's Bobby, and went to the National Museum of Scotland. This was when the rain decided to stop.
