Saturday morning I took a trip to IKEA with Sophie and her parents and bought a lamp, waste bin, some organizers, and a bathroom rug. We then went to a large Sainsburys (grocery store) in Cameron Toll and did a big shop for food and there I also found an alarm clock and thing for my toothbrush in the bathroom. After we got back and unpacked, I just went walking. I had a few things in mind that I wanted to do so I headed up past George Square and down to Grassmarket where I was looking for a certain shop someone had told me about but didn't see. Then I went up to Princes Street and got my mom her birthday present before heading back down to Tollcross to the Pound Stretcher where I got the rest of my hangers, standing mirror, and a little space organizer to go under my sink. I took the bus back to the flat and unpacked everything. My room looks like this now!
My closets:
My bathroom:
The kitchen:
The living room and hall:
Sunday morning there was International Day at the university. I went at 10 to see what it was all about but it seemed to be catered to students who had just arrived and based on the people I met, most just had. So it was all about learning the city and where things were. There were a few talks I thought might be interesting but I stayed for 2 hours for the general session and then decided to head back to my flat. That night Caoimh's parents made a Sunday roast (which apparently everyone has) which was very yummy! Sophie's parents headed back to Northern Ireland that evening and Caoimh's parents went back to Ireland the next morning.
On Monday I mailed off some birthday presents and spent the afternoon at Starbucks using their wireless. That evening, Caoimh and I went to a wine and cheese for postgrads and mature students. It was VERY crowded and the cheese was all gone by the time we got there.
On Tuesday I waited around in the morning for the cleaners (because the flat was a bit dirty when we moved in) who mopped and hoovered. Then I had to wait for the Virgin Media man for our broadband who finally came around 1 (so we have internet now yay!). Caoimh and I then headed to our Freshers' Week Postgrad Taught Masters/Diploma Students Welcome Session (there are two categories of graduate work (1) Postgraduate Taught Masters and Diploma [which is pretty much taking classes but not writing a dissertation] and (2) Postgraduate Research Masters and PhD). This was a pretty boring two hours of people just saying good luck! Welcome! Make friends! Edinburgh is amazing! So many students were super rude and just walked out while people were in the middle of presenting. I stuck around in case there was anything useful but there wasn't really. We then headed to a wine reception afterwards where we sat with two very nice girls. One was named Mags and she was from Cambridge, England but spent some years in the US growing up. The other was from (Middlesburg?) England. Sophie joined us and we all went out to dinner together.
All night all the girls were trying to convince me to go to a ceilidh (pronounced kay-lee; a Scottish dance) that was being offered for postgraduate students. I wanted to go but I didn't want to dance but I ended up going. There were a lot of people there and we ended up getting there about an hour after it started so everyone had already paired up. There was, surprisingly, a large number of boys there (but of course more girls). Mags and Sophie got asked to dance but Mags didn't want to so Caoimh dance with them instead. I didn't really want to do a partner dance but all night they'd been talking about a dance called Strip the Willow. We all went down for it so we had four girls and two boys and Sophie and Mags recruited two more so we all had parents. Pretty much you stand in two lines and there are four couples. It goes like Couple 1 Spins, Boy 1 spins with Girl 2 while Girl 1 spins with Boy 2, Couple 1 Spins, Boy 1 spins with Girl 3 while Girl 1 spins with Boy 3 and while this happens Couple 2 starts spinning with each other so you keep going down the line.
You can get a better idea of it here - it's almost like line dancing but more same, same but different.
It's great! It was an amazing experience! I'm so glad I went!
On Monday I mailed off some birthday presents and spent the afternoon at Starbucks using their wireless. That evening, Caoimh and I went to a wine and cheese for postgrads and mature students. It was VERY crowded and the cheese was all gone by the time we got there.
On Tuesday I waited around in the morning for the cleaners (because the flat was a bit dirty when we moved in) who mopped and hoovered. Then I had to wait for the Virgin Media man for our broadband who finally came around 1 (so we have internet now yay!). Caoimh and I then headed to our Freshers' Week Postgrad Taught Masters/Diploma Students Welcome Session (there are two categories of graduate work (1) Postgraduate Taught Masters and Diploma [which is pretty much taking classes but not writing a dissertation] and (2) Postgraduate Research Masters and PhD). This was a pretty boring two hours of people just saying good luck! Welcome! Make friends! Edinburgh is amazing! So many students were super rude and just walked out while people were in the middle of presenting. I stuck around in case there was anything useful but there wasn't really. We then headed to a wine reception afterwards where we sat with two very nice girls. One was named Mags and she was from Cambridge, England but spent some years in the US growing up. The other was from (Middlesburg?) England. Sophie joined us and we all went out to dinner together.
All night all the girls were trying to convince me to go to a ceilidh (pronounced kay-lee; a Scottish dance) that was being offered for postgraduate students. I wanted to go but I didn't want to dance but I ended up going. There were a lot of people there and we ended up getting there about an hour after it started so everyone had already paired up. There was, surprisingly, a large number of boys there (but of course more girls). Mags and Sophie got asked to dance but Mags didn't want to so Caoimh dance with them instead. I didn't really want to do a partner dance but all night they'd been talking about a dance called Strip the Willow. We all went down for it so we had four girls and two boys and Sophie and Mags recruited two more so we all had parents. Pretty much you stand in two lines and there are four couples. It goes like Couple 1 Spins, Boy 1 spins with Girl 2 while Girl 1 spins with Boy 2, Couple 1 Spins, Boy 1 spins with Girl 3 while Girl 1 spins with Boy 3 and while this happens Couple 2 starts spinning with each other so you keep going down the line.
You can get a better idea of it here - it's almost like line dancing but more same, same but different.
It's great! It was an amazing experience! I'm so glad I went!
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