This is possibly the shortest time it has taken me to write 2 posts consecutively!! If it wasn't for the fact that it's out of total procrastination I'd actually be impressed!
There is now only 2 days before I leave for France and Italy, and 11days till I see my parents again. I'm so excited, I actually cannot wait to see them. It really is strange coming home each night and not being able to talk to your family, It's great having flat mates, but there is only so much they can offer.
There is not much to say, as I wrote not so long ago. Except the weather has been amazing!!! 20 degrees and sunny, although I found it so strange that everyone here thinks that it's appropriate weather it sun-bake and have BBQ's. All I hear, as I'm trying so hard to write an essay, are the screams of the girls on the grass in front of my flat as the guys throw the ball at them 'accidentally', and then male laughter to follow. It's times like these where I compare my experience of exchange to one of my friends who just came home from Texas. I wonder what it was like in warm weather, so much more to do, always wanting to be outside instead of being cooped up in your room because you might loose a toe from frost bite if you venture outdoors. I can't lie, I love Scotland, but I wouldn't complain if it was just a tad warmer.
I cannot believe how fast everything has been going lately. I remember when I was booking the flights to Paris 4 weeks ago, getting excited, booking hostels, and now, in only 2 days, I shall be there. It's crazy, it really puts into perspective how short a time I actually have here. I've nearly been away 3 months now, which means there's only 4moths to go. In some ways I can't wait to go home, see my family and friends, catch up on all that I've missed, but I would love to stay here too. I have decided that the best option is for everyone to just move here, that way I get both! :) But seriously, after all I've seen and done, I know I'm going to find it so difficult to go back to everyday life at home in little old Vermont.
And as cold and rainy as it is here, I don't think I'd trade this experience for the world.
Sunday, 25 March 2012
Wednesday, 21 March 2012
Only 7 weeks left....
And after nearly another month, you are all blessed with yet another blog.
This may not be terribly long as it's already 11pm here. (time certainly creeps up on you!)
Since last I wrote, I have basically been travelling back and forth from Glasgow to Guildford. I have now become very accustomed to the train systems, especially the 4am ones which I travelled on twice in 4 days (tip: this is never a good time of the day to travel, no matter how confident you are on trains, they are not reliable!!) After little sleep, frantic taxi rides to the station, trains not showing up, and therefore missing connecting trains then spending 9.5hrs of your day moving from one train to the next, creates a very sour feeling whenever I now think of train travel. And to answer the question you are all thinking, yes, UK trains are much worse then back in Australia. I know, how could that be! But alas, the next time my train doesn't turn up I think I shall scream, and not just at the lady behind the desk who wanted to charge me another 100pound for a new ticket because their train didn't show.
Even with all the craziness on the trains, seeing and spending time with Nat down in Guildford was worth it. We went to London to see Legally Blond, I went on another baking rampage, not only cooking lemon meringue cupcakes, but also scones and pancakes. I tasted my first ever Traditional Nigerian food (and still didn't find it spicy even though it had multiple raw chillies in it), hired a car and drove to Dorking (a quaint town just next to Guildford), started and finished an essay, started and finished my maths homework, and oh yeah, read all three of the Hunger Game books in less then a week (with much help of the ridiculous amount of train travel involved!).
It feels strange to be back in Glasgow, going back to a mundane life style for the next week. But i have no need to worry, in 7days time I shall be leaving for France and Italy. Nat and I are travelling to Paris, Nice, Rome and then meeting my parents in Florence and travelling back to the UK from there. Words cannot express how ridiculously excited I am to go!! It's crazy though, a year ago I never thought that I would be here, waiting to leave Scotland so I can travel to Paris!!! How Bizarre!
To think, by the end of my travels I will have gone to Japan, Scotland, London, France, Italy, Norway, Ireland and Germany (I'm sure the list will go on, but these are the places so far that I have actually planned trips to, I also intend to travel to many many more during the 2 months after my exchange). I cannot believe where my life has taken me.
Which leads me to my next point. There is less then 7 weeks left till I completely finish my exchange! I finish exams on the 9th May, which means that after that I am a free woman to travel and live wherever I choose. Where I choose shall be in Guildford, and where I intend to travel will now be considerably less places as I need to get a job, but still, I cannot wait for the ability to wake up one morning, go to the airport and ask for the first flight out! (This is one thing I definitely intend on doing)
But until then, my life shall remain in Glasgow, finishing off my uni semester. I really shall be sad when it finishes. I can't believe it's already time to look into arrangements elsewhere.
It's truly scary how time flies!
This may not be terribly long as it's already 11pm here. (time certainly creeps up on you!)
Since last I wrote, I have basically been travelling back and forth from Glasgow to Guildford. I have now become very accustomed to the train systems, especially the 4am ones which I travelled on twice in 4 days (tip: this is never a good time of the day to travel, no matter how confident you are on trains, they are not reliable!!) After little sleep, frantic taxi rides to the station, trains not showing up, and therefore missing connecting trains then spending 9.5hrs of your day moving from one train to the next, creates a very sour feeling whenever I now think of train travel. And to answer the question you are all thinking, yes, UK trains are much worse then back in Australia. I know, how could that be! But alas, the next time my train doesn't turn up I think I shall scream, and not just at the lady behind the desk who wanted to charge me another 100pound for a new ticket because their train didn't show.
Even with all the craziness on the trains, seeing and spending time with Nat down in Guildford was worth it. We went to London to see Legally Blond, I went on another baking rampage, not only cooking lemon meringue cupcakes, but also scones and pancakes. I tasted my first ever Traditional Nigerian food (and still didn't find it spicy even though it had multiple raw chillies in it), hired a car and drove to Dorking (a quaint town just next to Guildford), started and finished an essay, started and finished my maths homework, and oh yeah, read all three of the Hunger Game books in less then a week (with much help of the ridiculous amount of train travel involved!).
It feels strange to be back in Glasgow, going back to a mundane life style for the next week. But i have no need to worry, in 7days time I shall be leaving for France and Italy. Nat and I are travelling to Paris, Nice, Rome and then meeting my parents in Florence and travelling back to the UK from there. Words cannot express how ridiculously excited I am to go!! It's crazy though, a year ago I never thought that I would be here, waiting to leave Scotland so I can travel to Paris!!! How Bizarre!
To think, by the end of my travels I will have gone to Japan, Scotland, London, France, Italy, Norway, Ireland and Germany (I'm sure the list will go on, but these are the places so far that I have actually planned trips to, I also intend to travel to many many more during the 2 months after my exchange). I cannot believe where my life has taken me.
Which leads me to my next point. There is less then 7 weeks left till I completely finish my exchange! I finish exams on the 9th May, which means that after that I am a free woman to travel and live wherever I choose. Where I choose shall be in Guildford, and where I intend to travel will now be considerably less places as I need to get a job, but still, I cannot wait for the ability to wake up one morning, go to the airport and ask for the first flight out! (This is one thing I definitely intend on doing)
But until then, my life shall remain in Glasgow, finishing off my uni semester. I really shall be sad when it finishes. I can't believe it's already time to look into arrangements elsewhere.
It's truly scary how time flies!
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