Thurs
Yesterday went to club sandwich. always a stupid pastime. but sometimes you just need to get drunk and be able to be stupid and not care. Adam was Krumping again and I joined in a bit. except that I kept spilling my drink as a result. Also they were giving out free condoms for whatever reason. they were all flavored as well- or rather flavoured.
i tried my best to steal awhole box of them because i thought it would be funny. and i could play lots of pranks. but then i gave up because i think they noticed me lingering around them like a big creep.
Friday-
Today I woke up before noon. An accomplishment. so i have a whole day to do what i want. it is relatively nice outside. the weather has been warming up significantly which is awesome. So im thinking of going into central to look at some art and shit. and then maybe doing some work int he library followed by drunk times.
Later-
AHhhhhhh LondonI love you forever!!
Today was a beautiful sunny day. I wanted to just take all of london and put it in my pocket and have it forever! I rode the bus to Southbank.
Went to the Hayward Gallery. There was a cool exhibit curated by mark wallinger. I was impressed with it. then I walked along the riverside towards the tate modern. tons of people were out and about enjoying the prefect weather. i was in heaven. i was having the gayest moment ever just taking in all of London. London is where my heart is at forever. I definatly see myself coming back here. i wanted to cry because it was so beautiful and full of life and people and ahhh it was so great.then i went to the tate for a while. The tate modern is a symbol of my Love for London. it is like my haven where i can just spend hours. I took a million pictures my finger was basically glued to the cameras clicker. gayest moment of my life.
came home and made din and so forth. met up with some friends for pregaming times. and then we went to Whipit! there is this big cockbag bouncer who i hate and he always give people shit for not having id when no one else ever cares about that shit. and i also saw him being a bouncer at burger king in central. and he gave abi a hard time for not having id and gloria as well an another friend. but all those times i was able to get around him. i think he thinks he is like the terminator of bouncers. he takes it so seriously. anyhow i tried to go around him. and he said i was too drunk and couldnt get in. and then they wouldnt let me in. i wasnt even that drunk i didnt look super fucked either. plus that bouncer is drunk everytime he is working. i hate him. i was sooooooo angry. the fucking boss bouncer was like yeah you cant come in tonight. i was soooo mad. adam of course had to be my babysitter and walk me home and tell me to calm down. and it sucked i have a limited amount of weekends here. and that eastern european piece of shit ruined it. i yelled for him to go back to bosnia-herzogovina.
hahaha. people were offeneded.
but on the bright side tonight i am going to a prohibition party. it is quite a big and elaborate event. i think it will be really cool. you have to dress up and not just in a half-ass way. it should be a time warp. going to take lots of pics. i cant do hair so it should be interesting i have some feathers and a headband. we shall see what happens.
im coming home so soon. im going to make sure everyone knows that im leaving soon so that they stop and think about me for the next month. hahaha. not really- but adam and i are going to host a flat party before i depart.
sarah the uber christian hypochondriac thinks she had mumps. well actually she told us she has mumps- but had the vaccine for it and hadnt taken the test for it yet. so at first i was like YIKESSS im running away dont give me that shit. but then i realized she always thinks she has the most absurd sicknesses. we received an email about 2 people in dorms having mumps. i speculate sarah read that and just assumed she had it. i actually just sent her an email asking if she actually got tested or thinks that she has it. she is such a strange person. she thought that gravy in our kitchen leftover from thanksgiving gave her asthma. i dont think thats even possible. self diagnosed asthma---from gravy. i dont understand.
Thursday, 26 February 2009
Monday, 23 February 2009
Scotland
Haggis
Kilts
Whiskey
Loch Ness monster
Castles
End of story.

Thats pretty much it. Scotland in nutshell. But in case you are interested here is the slightly more elaborate version.
I was thinking that I needed to see more of the UK since I have been here and mostly traveled to destinations outside the kingdom. For some reason Dublin didnt interest me and I heard it was redic expensive. And wales sounded less than amazing. So Scotland it was.
Plus I could take a train which was a major bonus since I hate the whole hassle of airport travel and the preperations that accompany it. So last week was reading week. Me and my friend Karen both shared our desire to explore the northern UK region. So we booked trains to Glasgow and Edinburgh.
In Glasgow we found a cheap hotel that was really nice and luxurious. and It was like 2 minutes to inside the train station. which is so convenient! I cannot stress enough how much I hate airport travel. packing all my shit into 3 oz. bottles. weight restrictions. no water bottles. no sharp objects. all that shit just makes me too stressed so hoping on a train in central london and then arriving litereally just outside our hotel in Scotland was a dream come true!
Anyhow Glasgow is not a tourist destination. In fact most tourist never stop here. Unless it is for business. The city is growing rapidly and this can be witnessed by the imense amound of construction all around the city. Its hard to explain Glasgow. But it reminded me a lot of seattle. It is built along the rive Clyde. the area near the river was industrial like and had lots of new highrises. this reminded me of the area in seattle by the Safeco Field or the area by the train station. I am forgetting the name of things in Seattle. this is weird. We walked around the center of the city which was nice and had lots of shopping and food and stuff. We went to the GOMA. gallery of modern art.it was small but nice. and then we also explored the west end. this area was really cool. the university of Glasgow was there and also the kelvin galleries. the university was old and beautiful and there was a huge park with beautiful gardens and stuff. we went around to where the art institute was. It was not touristy at all but very much a student life area. I could definatly see myself living there. It was cool.
yum I just bought donuts and ate like 4 of them. a dozen for a pound. fuck yes.
but i have a headache which isnt helped by the fact that I just ate 4 sugar covered yumsters.
Anyhow Glasgow was great dispite everyone telling me it was shithole and not to go there.
Next we took the train to Edinburgh. A city which I virtually knew nothing about. So I didnt have any expectations. As soon as we got there I loved it. It is comrable to most other European cities. in the romantic old city feeling way. There was the castle built on top of a volcano and visible from most areas of the city. the old city was elevated up on the rocks it was built on. This was built this way during the middle ages for reasons of protection and shit. It would be hard to invade that shit. But since the city was high up and looked down on the rest of edinburgh it felt to me like a ski resort type of city. on amountain high in elevation plus it had that feel. It reminded me of Park City in Utah as well as Toledo in spain. the idea of a walled in city is really interesting. It is kind of a surreal experience because it feels rahter isolated but not desolate. I just loved being surrounded by all the history. Everything was old and beautiful. Even our hostel was in a huge old rock building that felt like a castle. there was not even wired electrical plugs in our rooms. I cant really describe how amazing it was. I was really in awe of the city. I will put up some pictures on facebook.
I also encountered the drunkest and cutest old men I have ever seen! so many random people would talk to us. But the best was these two like 75 year olds who were drunk at 11 Am and harassing our tour. The tour that we took also gives a ghost tour at night. the guys kept yelling ILL GIVE YOU A FUCKING GHOST TOUR! and he was drooling and the other dropped his bottle of white cider. BEST GHOST TOUR YOULL EVER SEE. they also just kept calling everyone fuckers and yelling at the tour guides.the best thing was that they were not homeless. they were just two friends shooting the shit harassing tourists. the one wearing the sweat track suit won my heart. I was going to give him a big kiss but had to follow the tour. here are some pics!!! ahhh i love cute old men!!!



We also took a day trip to Loch Ness and the highlands. Really beautiful. Islept through most the bus tour but still enjoyed the scenery i managed to take in.

Loch Ness.
Unfortunatly I didnt see the monster. But the castle was pretty legit.
there are many more details and adventures but basically I was very satisfied with this trip and would recommend that everyone pay a visit to this wonderful country. especially if you enjoy history and boozin.
Kilts
Whiskey
Loch Ness monster
Castles
End of story.
Thats pretty much it. Scotland in nutshell. But in case you are interested here is the slightly more elaborate version.
I was thinking that I needed to see more of the UK since I have been here and mostly traveled to destinations outside the kingdom. For some reason Dublin didnt interest me and I heard it was redic expensive. And wales sounded less than amazing. So Scotland it was.
Plus I could take a train which was a major bonus since I hate the whole hassle of airport travel and the preperations that accompany it. So last week was reading week. Me and my friend Karen both shared our desire to explore the northern UK region. So we booked trains to Glasgow and Edinburgh.
In Glasgow we found a cheap hotel that was really nice and luxurious. and It was like 2 minutes to inside the train station. which is so convenient! I cannot stress enough how much I hate airport travel. packing all my shit into 3 oz. bottles. weight restrictions. no water bottles. no sharp objects. all that shit just makes me too stressed so hoping on a train in central london and then arriving litereally just outside our hotel in Scotland was a dream come true!
Anyhow Glasgow is not a tourist destination. In fact most tourist never stop here. Unless it is for business. The city is growing rapidly and this can be witnessed by the imense amound of construction all around the city. Its hard to explain Glasgow. But it reminded me a lot of seattle. It is built along the rive Clyde. the area near the river was industrial like and had lots of new highrises. this reminded me of the area in seattle by the Safeco Field or the area by the train station. I am forgetting the name of things in Seattle. this is weird. We walked around the center of the city which was nice and had lots of shopping and food and stuff. We went to the GOMA. gallery of modern art.it was small but nice. and then we also explored the west end. this area was really cool. the university of Glasgow was there and also the kelvin galleries. the university was old and beautiful and there was a huge park with beautiful gardens and stuff. we went around to where the art institute was. It was not touristy at all but very much a student life area. I could definatly see myself living there. It was cool.
yum I just bought donuts and ate like 4 of them. a dozen for a pound. fuck yes.
but i have a headache which isnt helped by the fact that I just ate 4 sugar covered yumsters.
Anyhow Glasgow was great dispite everyone telling me it was shithole and not to go there.
Next we took the train to Edinburgh. A city which I virtually knew nothing about. So I didnt have any expectations. As soon as we got there I loved it. It is comrable to most other European cities. in the romantic old city feeling way. There was the castle built on top of a volcano and visible from most areas of the city. the old city was elevated up on the rocks it was built on. This was built this way during the middle ages for reasons of protection and shit. It would be hard to invade that shit. But since the city was high up and looked down on the rest of edinburgh it felt to me like a ski resort type of city. on amountain high in elevation plus it had that feel. It reminded me of Park City in Utah as well as Toledo in spain. the idea of a walled in city is really interesting. It is kind of a surreal experience because it feels rahter isolated but not desolate. I just loved being surrounded by all the history. Everything was old and beautiful. Even our hostel was in a huge old rock building that felt like a castle. there was not even wired electrical plugs in our rooms. I cant really describe how amazing it was. I was really in awe of the city. I will put up some pictures on facebook.
I also encountered the drunkest and cutest old men I have ever seen! so many random people would talk to us. But the best was these two like 75 year olds who were drunk at 11 Am and harassing our tour. The tour that we took also gives a ghost tour at night. the guys kept yelling ILL GIVE YOU A FUCKING GHOST TOUR! and he was drooling and the other dropped his bottle of white cider. BEST GHOST TOUR YOULL EVER SEE. they also just kept calling everyone fuckers and yelling at the tour guides.the best thing was that they were not homeless. they were just two friends shooting the shit harassing tourists. the one wearing the sweat track suit won my heart. I was going to give him a big kiss but had to follow the tour. here are some pics!!! ahhh i love cute old men!!!