HALLOWEEN!

So Sarah and I kept up with some american traditions and carved these bad boys. Mine is the one on the left, I decided to go classic halloween because they do not carve pumpkins here. Sarah's is Jack Skeleton-pretty awesome. Here they just buy pumpkins and set them out- no carving- lame!! One of my roomies came into the kitchen when we were doing this and asked for a picture with my pumpkin. 

Oh how I love dressing up! Me as America, Sarah as Cowgirl, and Mist as Saloon Girl. We are western themed. This was thursday night, we went to the international halloween party and there was some great dancing! They played 50's music all night- which I did not realize was incredibly fun to dance crazy to. We danced to "Respect" and "Aint No Mountain High Enough". They have a 50's night every tuesday at the buff club, and if you are up for it T we should go out that night- we will have to see how we are feeling! I also did some swing dancing with a drunk tiger, he would not stop twirling me all over the place. I have also decided that I will go as America to Sooner Coral when we return home! I did the Christmas puppies there and now I'll bust out America.

Saturday we took a train to Blair Castle to watch a bagpiping competition sponsored by a whiskey company- you dont get much more scottish than that! It was nice to listen to and I found myself staring around the room off in dreamland. I also realized how easy it would be for us to take a train up to Aberdeen for a day trip- a train goes straight there! So I was thinking of cutting my thursday classes and checking out Aberdeen with you T!

This was Saturday night- a 70's themed halloween party in someone's flat that I dont know. SO much fun! It was a night of dancing and meeting a bunch of randos. The dancing became a little too intense and I began to fear I was going to be trampled. I also have come to the conclusion that sunglasses at a party are a lot of fun! You just drink a little, put on the sunglasses and start dancing and somehow the glasses make you feel like you have had way more to drink than you actually have- it was a little trippy. So they are coming with me to more parties- 70's themed or not.

Just more dancing like weirdos as the 70's party! The only thing that was missing was Julien- he left this weekend to visit his gf, and at the end of the night I was thinkin "where's julien- i gotta tell him something!!" then realized he was not there- how sad! I think I will miss him most of all after this adventure, he is a good person to just talk about life with.

Well tonight is the actual halloween- I am gonna guess we are not going out, I think the days leading up to halloween were crazy enough

we've got the dreamers disease

" It does not do well to dwell on dreams and forget to live." ~ Albus Dumbledore

So wise you are Albus, I feel like I am living a dream I came up with a year ago, I am so glad I am doing this!

Photos:

This is our beautiful city center in Glasgow! This photo does not quite give the city justice, I will have to try again to capture it. It has some great shopping and the best bath store called Lush

Glasgow is huge on live music, and having Misty as a friend you find out about all the good ones. They performed in the basement of one of our favorite local bars, there was an audience of only about 20 people and we met the band afterwards and had a little chat with them.

This past weekend we went on a trip with the international society to the isle of skye, on the way we made many stops to look at scenery. Scotland is absolutely gorgeous- rolling green mountains, some snow capped, huge lochs, and rivers cutting through so much of the country. The isle of skye was beautiful and so remote, I loved it but could never imagine living there, it was just so cut off from everything. If you weren't a fisherman then you were the local pub owner, there just wasn't much there.

Cheers! So what do you do on a remote isle at night? Go crazy apparently

In the bathroom of a local pub that we bombarded with our presence. I would not stop carrying this cigarette in my teeth for a longer period of time than I would like to admit. I was dumb yet again, and this night led to vomiting again! I now vow not to puke again this semester, I will be in control! This night led to Misty putting me in bed, and Julien emptying my vomit bucket for me. Good lord.

Quote of the night:

Misty: So did you have fun tonight Julien?

Julien: Tomorrow morning I will eat cereals and milk.

Clearly I was not the only one super intoxicated. The next morning everyone piled back on the bus for home with massive hangovers. 

We stopped by Lochness on our way home! This is me summoning nessy to communicate with me. Shorty after this she popped up and said hello, sadly this was not captured via camera

Some photos of life

 Alrighty T,  these are just some rando photos taken from three very different days to just give you an idea of life here. Our days usually involve class and SO much walking, and our nights range from going crazy to just relaxing with friends, so here you go:

So this is from some night last week, we decided to tamper with the fire alarm and smoke hooka in the middle of the kitchen. So glad we did not get caught, found out not too long after this that it would have been a huge deal if the fire alarm had actually gone off.

This is from this past wednesday night, it started out as a nice wine and cheese party, in which Julien taught me how to properly taste a wine haha, and ended in a crazy dance party the took up 3 floors of a club with dancing on each. I told Mist that I look like a happy puppy in this photo. Funny story: at this party I met a girl who told me "if you party at all, you will meet this guy named Luis from Spain." I died laughing because I definitely made out with said guy about a week before she told me this.

So this is Julien and Clement at the wine party turned dance party. Needless to say both were very drunk. We ran into the Romanian at this party and Julien would not stop shoving me into him saying "go get your man" haha, could he be more like Brad? no. He did not remember this the next morning and kept apologizing- I just thought it was hilarious. 

So we are not always insane, I took this Friday night, we decided to stay in. Sarah and Mist busted out their instruments and we ended up sharing music and singing for a couple hours. It was so relaxing.

Gonna get by with a little help from my friends

So you know you have some truly great friends when they hold back your hair when you are vomitting...
So T after getting off of skype with you, I went out, and managed to make a fool of myself. Mist and I had 9.0 beer, which we did not realize was quite so much. Well we drank some of that before going out to a bar, at said bar I got another pint of beer, needless to say it was too much, but the weird thing is is that I did not really realize that until I got home.
Well apparently when I am in a foreign country I am a lot more bold, because at the bar I kept going up to randos, introducing myself, and chatting with them. I did this to 5 different groups- I did not even hang with the group I came with! We kinda all split up at the beginning of the night and met up when the bar was closing, it was great.
So on this particular night I chose to wear high heels, well on the walk home my feet started KILLING me, so Julien offered for me to walk home in his socks. So I sit down in the street take off my heels and put on his socks, only to stub my toe half way home and not realize I have bled all over the sock until I get home. Then Julien follows me into the bathroom, takes off the sock for me, and rinses my foot in water. So then we go meet everyone else in the kitchen to hang out and smoke hooka. Well after a little bit I start getting really sick to my stomach, and go sit in the bathroom. Julien comes in and sits with me for a little while, and right when he leaves I puke... that's right when Sarah walks in and holds all of my hair. So now I feel way better and go sit in the kitchen, only to somewhat fall asleep on the couch, like I could hear what everyone was saying, but I could not contribute. Then I put my head on Sarah's lap and rested there, only to have Julien carry me back to my room about an hour later, where Misty tucked me in.
So I have some great friends, I apologized the next morning, but all of them said it was a great night, and in Juliens words "I love drunk Carolyn" so I am glad I was not a huge pain! and it was a great night til the puking haha