Hello from the beautiful town of St. Andrews!
After a nightmarish day of travel, I arrived in St. Andrews this morning around 9:30am and proceeded to check into my room, unpack, and promptly get lost in my dorm as I tried to find Jen's room. Getting lost seemed to be a theme today...hopefully it doesn't continue! The dorm is nice overall, and I'm randomly in a handicap-accessible room, so I have tons of extra space. Plus I have my own bathroom, so I really can't complain. :) Quite a change from Colgate dorms!
We had planned to meet up as a group around noon, but unfortunately, Jen and I got lost a second time. When we finally ran into our group, we decided to eat lunch and then deal with cell phones. Lunch ended up being gourmet pizza--not exactly Scottish, but we were so hungry we didn't care! And the salesmen at the cell phone store had us all laughing hysterically within a few minutes of walking in. There's just something about a joke delivered in a Scottish brogue that makes it that much funnier...
We spent the rest of the afternoon wandering around the town, mostly shopping for the necessities we couldn't bring from home, but we also managed a detour to the ruins of a castle on the beach. It was stunning--massive, crumbling walls surrounded by bright green grass dotted with tombstones of all ages. The sun happened to be at just the right height, so it was that warm afternoon light that makes for great photos (and artistically placed sunspots...). I've included a link to the facebook album with some photos from today.
I'm off to Paris tomorrow...a bientot!
~L
Photos: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=180306&id=579896063&l=b7015fe99b
Friday, January 29, 2010
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
The Adventure Begins!
Hello all,
Well, the day has finally arrived (almost, at least). Tomorrow morning, I'll be leaving to spend the next four months in Scotland, studying at the University of St. Andrews, and traveling around the rest of Europe as frequently as my schedule permits. In the interest of keeping my family and friends in the States updated on my adventures, I'm starting this blog! Hopefully I'll manage to write at least once week, or whenever I do something interesting, and I'll post links to photos on facebook that will be accessible to anyone, even if you don't have facebook or aren't friends with me (ahem, Mom). That way you can see all the wonderful castles and churches and castles and statues and shops and paintings and castles....can you tell I like castles? :-)
Anyway, the next week is going to be full of traveling for me, since we arrive in Scotland Friday morning and approximately 36 hours later I will be in Paris (my favorite place on earth!) for a few days before orientation starts next week. I can't wait! I'm sure it will be the first of many amazing experiences this semester.
A bientot!
~L
Well, the day has finally arrived (almost, at least). Tomorrow morning, I'll be leaving to spend the next four months in Scotland, studying at the University of St. Andrews, and traveling around the rest of Europe as frequently as my schedule permits. In the interest of keeping my family and friends in the States updated on my adventures, I'm starting this blog! Hopefully I'll manage to write at least once week, or whenever I do something interesting, and I'll post links to photos on facebook that will be accessible to anyone, even if you don't have facebook or aren't friends with me (ahem, Mom). That way you can see all the wonderful castles and churches and castles and statues and shops and paintings and castles....can you tell I like castles? :-)
Anyway, the next week is going to be full of traveling for me, since we arrive in Scotland Friday morning and approximately 36 hours later I will be in Paris (my favorite place on earth!) for a few days before orientation starts next week. I can't wait! I'm sure it will be the first of many amazing experiences this semester.
A bientot!
~L
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