tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68813093755084261462024-02-19T09:47:43.756+00:00Study A-WayA blog depicting the life and experiences of a college student in the United States and abroadAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17829637640814798633noreply@blogger.comBlogger129125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881309375508426146.post-79435433240303412012011-05-19T07:02:00.000+01:002011-05-19T07:02:50.292+01:00Home again, home again, jiggity jigWell, this post has been a long time coming - I've been home for nearly three weeks now, and all at once, it feels as if I've just left Edinburgh and as if I went ages ago. I've gotten over my jetlag once and for all (thank goodness - I thought I was going to be on a 7 a.m.-10 p.m. schedule forever! And don't try to tell me that that is "normal"...I eschew typical waking hours; I'm in college!), Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17829637640814798633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881309375508426146.post-5747386637354775802011-04-04T20:16:00.000+01:002011-04-04T20:16:21.349+01:00Recent Goings-onI have been neglecting my reflection time in the past few weeks! Not only am I obviously behind on blog entries, but I am waaay behind in my daily work journals, as well. It seems as if these past few weeks have jumped into hyper-speed, and the end of my time here in Edinburgh looms closer and closer...and is coming at me faster by the minute! I only have four more days left at my internship; oneAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17829637640814798633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881309375508426146.post-12509896685059055512011-03-29T20:09:00.004+01:002011-03-29T20:12:03.110+01:00A Transcript of Today's 8:38 a.m. Conversation with One Half of a Foreign Couple on the StreetWoman: Excuse me, do you live here?Me: Ehh, I've been here for a few months.W: Could you tell us - is this the Mound?M: Yep, this is it! (gesture)W: Ok. Thank you very much....and then, I took the wrong street to Starbucks.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17829637640814798633noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881309375508426146.post-82604349633268967352011-03-22T00:54:00.003+00:002011-03-22T01:00:54.644+00:00Glossary, Vol. IVAgain, I've only recently discovered some of these terms, but a lot of them are words that I've gotten used to hearing and just forgotten to post. Still, it amazes me that, nearly three months in to my trip, I can still be learning new words IN THE (SUPPOSEDLY) SAME LANGUAGE. What's that saying? "The UK and US: two countries separated by a common language," or something like that - SO Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17829637640814798633noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881309375508426146.post-26372354030260312022011-03-13T12:10:00.004+00:002011-03-13T12:20:43.877+00:0010 pounds well spentLast night, I went to see the Vagina Monologues. I asked around to see if anyone else that I knew was interested, but they all had some excuse or another for not going, so I went anyway, and I am so glad that I did.For those of you who don't know, I actually acted in my school's performance last year. In last night's show, they performed the same monologues that we had in our show, so it was veryAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17829637640814798633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881309375508426146.post-55210186957652174402011-03-12T16:57:00.005+00:002011-03-13T12:30:38.425+00:00Myth Busters, Episode I: Scotland WeatherI've decided to start another periodic theme post: Myth Busters. Some of the things that we discussed in our program orientation when we first got to Scotland were the preconceived notions that we had had before arriving, but as I learned from that discussion and continue to discover day by day, rumored reputations are not always correct. Of course, this is all just my opinion, but as an Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17829637640814798633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881309375508426146.post-49457512420798481292011-03-12T13:32:00.019+00:002011-03-13T00:19:19.340+00:00Saturday in the ParkToday has been a rather "dreich" day, as they say in the UK. (Look out for that in my next Glossary entry!) I woke up around 10:00 to falling snow (what happened to the hopeful spring-y weather of last week?!), decided that my planned outings for today weren't worth braving it, and promptly fell back asleep. I woke up again about an hour and a half later and found that not much snow had Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17829637640814798633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881309375508426146.post-76151077616783210772011-03-12T03:07:00.000+00:002011-03-12T03:12:45.698+00:00Dear old Glasgow townTwo weekends ago (time FLIES by here!), I went to Glasgow for about a day and a half. Four of us had tickets to see Ben Folds and Kate Miller-Heidke Friday night, and that outing turned into a large group overnight trip. You know us college kids!Emily, Lindsay, and I caught the CityLink bus mid-morning and got into Glasgow about an hour and 15 minutes later. Lindsay was staying for the weekend, Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17829637640814798633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881309375508426146.post-36931150242220853452011-03-08T22:01:00.003+00:002011-03-08T22:11:48.662+00:00Recent happenings and what's on nextDespite what my blog entries might have you believe, I do spend a fair amount of time simply working, exploring Edinburgh, eating, and sleeping - I'm not constantly running from place to place (though I have gotten quite good at that). I tend to only blog about these significant trips and events, though, because they are more interesting...or at least, in my judgment, they are. For those of you Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17829637640814798633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881309375508426146.post-43229343027168914912011-03-08T08:30:00.004+00:002011-03-08T08:35:45.949+00:00I found Nessie!More on this after work.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17829637640814798633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881309375508426146.post-21898045490056170772011-03-03T23:28:00.000+00:002011-03-03T23:28:17.569+00:00Amsterdam pics!I went through 568 pictures tonight and chose my favorite 58. That's blogger dedication.So please, PLEASE, check out the below slideshow - and feel free to leave me some feedback! Anyone can comment on these posts by clicking the "Comment" button below. Do you prefer this slideshow format, or the program that I used for the Calton Hill pictures? Do you want to know more about anything? (Don't Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17829637640814798633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881309375508426146.post-44044529841964643112011-03-02T21:15:00.003+00:002011-03-02T21:25:12.666+00:00Glossary, Vol. IIIIn the words of O.A.R. (that kind of apply), "Who's up for Game 3?!"NOTE: Some of these are recent discoveries, while others are words that I have actually incorporated into my vocabulary and have only realized in a recent spree of postcard writing and Skype chatting are not quite "American." (Sorry for the awkward grammar in that last sentence, by the way...)Foreign Wordsbollocked - reprimanded,Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17829637640814798633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881309375508426146.post-21468137963056307452011-02-23T20:02:00.003+00:002011-02-23T22:26:48.420+00:00Almost HeavenI interrupt this normal, average Wednesday to tell you a REALLY COOL STORY.I usually stay at my internship fairly late on Wednesdays - I tend to get home between 7 and 8 p.m. Tonight, I was heading back in the dark, when most people are eating dinner, and as I asked for Oli's ukulele tonight but have no carrying case, I was swinging it around a bit, eager to get home and play. I decided to go a Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17829637640814798633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881309375508426146.post-3178852457054546662011-02-21T16:45:00.000+00:002011-02-21T16:45:07.329+00:00Are you getting somewhere, or did you get lost in AMSTERDAM?I've taken a line from one of my favorite bands, Guster, to title this post about my excursion last weekend. And, if you must know: yes, I did get lost in Amsterdam. (I found my way back, of course!)I went with three other girls in my group - Annie, Diane, and Ellie - to Amsterdam for two and a half days. It was my first trip out of Scotland since I've been here, so it was very exciting. We flew Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17829637640814798633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881309375508426146.post-63993966278077553252011-02-21T16:12:00.000+00:002011-02-21T16:13:09.978+00:00Calton HillI took a few hours out of a fairly nice day a few weeks ago to visit Calton Hill, and I've delayed putting up this post because I've been trying to choose which pictures to include - there are so many great ones! Calton Hill is an especially beautiful and historic hill in Edinburgh that lends itself toward getting the city its nickname, "Athens of the North." There are a lot of monuments and Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17829637640814798633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881309375508426146.post-70567608749794746952011-02-15T22:17:00.003+00:002011-02-15T22:34:07.295+00:00Glossary, Vol. III think that I've collected enough foreign (or, well, they might as well be) words and phrases to warrant a second edition! Of course, I've probably forgotten to include some now that I am getting used to saying them...Foreign Wordsquid - slang for pounds, the currency used in the UKchuffed - pleasedsultana - Alright, well, we technically do have these in the U.S...they're really just grapes, butAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17829637640814798633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881309375508426146.post-14309305682892847722011-02-15T22:11:00.001+00:002011-02-15T22:13:22.861+00:00Check it outI've been spending lots of time at work lately updating the Foodies magazine website (to which the title is a link.) On it, you'll find a link to Living Abroad magazine, which I also work on. I'll put this website in the Links sidebar, too! Enjoy!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17829637640814798633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881309375508426146.post-2847699755042080092011-02-15T20:14:00.013+00:002011-02-15T22:10:08.970+00:00StirlingJanuary 28 - which reminds me that, WOW, time is absolutely flying by! It feels like last weekend! but, actually 3+ weeks have passed - I went to Stirling! You may have heard of it in reference to one of the following:1. Stirling Castle - a free tour was included with the entrance fee; we also walked around to some places not on the tour. This was my first Scottish castle experience - how neat! Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17829637640814798633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881309375508426146.post-8179364645972036812011-02-10T22:33:00.001+00:002011-02-10T22:34:09.335+00:00Heads upI'm leaving for a weekend in AMSTERDAM in a few hours! No time to write - but I'll definitely be updating on that and much more as soon as I can! Wish me luck!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17829637640814798633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881309375508426146.post-49088807919055088252011-02-07T23:22:00.003+00:002011-02-07T23:24:03.622+00:00Where am I?Here's the reason for my latest lack of blogging:OUR FIRST PAPER ASSIGNMENT!We've been assigned lots of reading and a short essay for our Scottish Enlightenment class - so, piling that on top of everything else (work, other classes, etc.), I've been spending just about all of my free time studying! Oh, and I went grocery shopping on Friday...I had no food.Anyway, rest assured that many belated Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17829637640814798633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881309375508426146.post-35297441145642812112011-01-31T21:20:00.006+00:002011-01-31T22:11:40.561+00:00HOME & updatesI realized that I hadn't posted a blog in a few days, so I figured that, in attempts at putting off my reading for class tomorrow, I would update everyone and let you know what's been going on in my life.1. Work. I have an internship at The Media Company, which publishes three monthly glossy magazines. I really enjoy being there and am getting a lot of experience, but for confidentiality reasons,Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17829637640814798633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881309375508426146.post-83341166291923113662011-01-26T13:49:00.004+00:002011-01-26T13:58:57.955+00:00Linguistics of ScotsI'm sitting in lecture right now, so I'll keep this short, but I just had to blog about this huge revelation that I had to share:Back story: In Linguistics last semester (one of the most interesting classes I've had at Furman), Dr. Cox touched briefly on dialect/regional differences. I found that my West Virginian "accent" was ever-so-slightly different than many others' accents. Our professor Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17829637640814798633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881309375508426146.post-41478440582080683522011-01-26T00:59:00.008+00:002011-01-26T01:54:07.259+00:00Burns NightTonight is Burns Night in Edinburgh; festive celebrations abound! What are we celebrating? Why, the life of Robert Burns, of course!Robert Burns was a poet who lived in Edinburgh from 1759 to 1796. He wrote many famous poems, notably Auld Lang Syne. Speaking of which, that's partially why he's so famous: he wrote in and celebrated the native Scottish tongue, opposing the preferred King's English Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17829637640814798633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881309375508426146.post-53435541757272612642011-01-24T16:38:00.022+00:002011-01-24T23:03:49.525+00:00St. AndrewsEight of us went to St. Andrews, a small town just north of Edinburgh, for a day trip Saturday. It was a really nice place to visit, but there was even less to do there than we thought, and we ended up catching an early-evening rather than late-even train home.While we were there, though, we really enjoyed ourselves. We spent a long time near the harbour and cathedral ruins, and we walked theAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17829637640814798633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6881309375508426146.post-5275486111150965782011-01-24T03:24:00.004+00:002011-01-24T16:36:35.136+00:00Stairway to Seven!I watched half of the game at a sports bar tonight (until they kicked me out because it was 2 a.m.), and then Drew Skyped the rest of the game to me.Here we go: Pittsburgh's goin' to the Super Bowl!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17829637640814798633noreply@blogger.com0