Orientation and Forced Socialization

I am still in the process of signing up for my classes. I have officially enrolled in bagpiping and have been approved for archaeology, but I'm still waiting to hear if my two sociology classes are enough to get me into the second level here. Hopefully it works out cause I'd love to take the class. I've also signed up with the internation

al student society thing. They apparently plan events and trips and are very active, so I'm hoping that works out well.

On Thursday I went on a bus tour around Glasgow. It was great to see some new places and hear about the history of the statues and buildings. It was two hours though, so by the end we were starting to fade.

That night I went to a social event planned for international students that involved a fiddle, an accordion and traditional dances. I danced for a bit and was awful at it. Later that night Megan invited me to a pub with some girls she met the night before. There were also four students from Loyola Maryland which was exciting. We bonded over York Road, deep connection.

Today was probably the most exciting day though. I went on a bus with a bunch of the other international students to Stirling Castle and Glengoyne Distillery. Stirling Castle was a lot of fun. While we were eating lunch the rain stopped and the clouds went away and we were left with a beautiful view.

After a couple hours there we went on to take a tour of the distillery. At the beginning of the tour they passed out samplers of whisky. It was disgusting. I mean really, I'm sure it was great, but for me, not so much. It is a working distillery so we were smelling all the stuff being made. It's in a beautiful location with some great mountains around it.

After days of waking up early and walking almost constantly I am exhausted and fully plan to enjoy my weekend and sleep in tomorrow. Happy weekend everybody!