One Week Until I Come Home

It has been a crazy three months and now there is only one week until I will be back in Madison with my friends and family. There are plans to be made about coming home and what I need to do when I get back. These things are very important, such as, when is the Farmer’s Market because I need to bike there and buy cheesy bread and cheese curds. There are also plans to be made about what I need to do in Scotland before I go home, such as visiting the National Library and the Portrait Gallery and many other things.

This week has been good so far. We all needed some time to recover after our long weekend in the Highlands and Monday was fairly low key. Had our last class for Globalization and got our final papers back. We also started to prepare for our final exams and final papers. Tuesday Lael and I went to find Birkenstocks and wander around town. We went to many different shoe stores trying to find the traditional sandals but were only able to find it in one color in one out of the dozen we tried. They were a really good deal and Lael ended up buying her mom a pair as well. While finding different shoe stores we found ourselves walking down streets that we had never been on before and also stopped in the National Gallery. There we saw Cezanne, Monet, and Van Gogh among others. Wednesday was filled with class once again but in British History we had a quiz and my team won so we got a box of chocolates to share. It was great. Thursday I worked in the kitchen and then joined Billie, Justin, Tyler, and Aarynn in going to The Meadows, a college hang out in Edinburgh. It was a beautiful day outside and The Meadows is a large park with cherry trees lining the paths through it. We played some Frisbee and then got an offer to join a game of ultimate Frisbee with some other students from Edinburgh University. We played with them for about an hour and then went to go eat supper at Blacksmith’s back in Dalkeith. It was a great day to end the last day of classes