I am beyond tired right now, so this post may be short and sweet. Who knows it may be just the opposite, we will just have to see. Monday came and the Halloween celebration continued, although I had enough of Halloween everyone here seemed to be in absolute love with it. Catherine and I did however make caramel apples. They were delicious, and to make them even better we put cinnamon on top! Lick your lips, rub your tummy scrumptiously delicious. :) That was basically the only major thing that happened on Monday, other than of course our wine tasting in class.
Tuesday was the day that I was going to start on my 2 presentations that were going to be due in 2 weeks. One is just a partnered 10 minute for my Archaeology class and the other is a 20 minute for my Michelangelo class. The partnered one is not a big deal, it is not graded and I am only going to have to speak for about 3 minutes on my part of our subject. We are discussing different Roman towns and we have the town of Bath (Aquae Sulis). I am in charge on finding information on the layout and the buildings in the town. Thankfully I already have all the information needed and just have to write it all out and put it into Powerpoint. The second presentation is a little harder because there are only 2 books in the Library (that i have found) that I can actually use. Unfortunately my luck is not with me for this presentation, someone has the books checked out. I however reserved the one and it was suppose to be in on the 2nd. Well it has still not been turned in, and it is quite frustrating and now I am searching google ebooks for information. Thankfully I am finding some information that I can use!
Wednesday was suppose to be my day off, but it got switched with my Thursday. We took a trip to York for my Archaeology class. We went to the museum to look at some roman artifacts then walked around the town discussing how it was built and what was still left. I didn't understand a lot of it, but I did understand enough that I wasn't bored. Unfortunately Wednesday was a bit chilly and windy and it made being outside not very fun. Don't even say it, yes I love the cold weather, but somedays I just don't want to deal with it. When I got home I went upstairs to start doing who knows what anymore. It was going to be family dinner night, and that meant it was Adams turn to cook. It was quite good too, we had typical Poor Hungarian Food, as I remember he called it. Haha. It was Pasta with cottage cheese, sour cream and bacon. May not sound appealing, but it was really interesting and good. After dinner that night I went upstairs and got all the information I could and went downstairs to bake banana bread and do homework. The good thing about baking for me is that I actually like doing homework while waiting for the bread to bake. Maybe I should bake more when I have homework to do? Hummn. That's something to think about.
When Thursday came I had to get up decently early so that I could go shopping with Adam so we could get things for Catherine's Birthday. Yes, Thursday was Catherine's 21st Birthday! When all the shopping was done we headed back home so that I could bake her birthday cupcakes/cake. Finally I got to bake my Carrot Cake, it is both of our favorites! When the Cake was baked and cooled I went upstairs to work on some homework and watched a movie. About an hour before the party started I went downstairs and helped the boys decorate the living room. It wasn't long after we finished that people started to show up. It was a nice sized party, not too small not too big. The party ended at about 2, and I was ready to go to bed!
Friday morning came way to early!! Since I had been up late the night before I went to class in the most comfiest clothes that would be acceptable, aka jeans, t-shirt and moccasins. Gotta love comfy clothes on a gloomy day. During class we had presentations on Raphael's Madonna & Child and Portraits. It was good to see how other people went about presenting their pieces, it is amazing how many different ways of presenting their are. Finally class ended and I went back home to work on my presentation... again. When I was exhausted and ready to take a break I went to the library to try and find more books to use. Thankfully I found one very ancient book that I could possibly use I went, when that adventure was over I went back home to take a nap. 2 hours later I woke up and continued working on homework. Not much happened after that other than packing for my trip to Glasgow the next day.
Saturday came as early as it felt, 5:47 is such a bad time to wake up! But the day had to go on, so off to the shower and downstairs to get breakfast. At 7:00 we left to meet up at Cranbrook 7 to go to the bus stop to catch the Train. When we arrived at the station we had to check in and go find our dock. This was my first time on a train!! Man was it an experience, and it actually wasn't as confusing as I was thinking, but still confusing enough. We went from Hull to Doncaster, Doncaster to Edinburgh, Edinburgh to Glasgow. After arriving in Glasgow we caught a cab to go to our hostel. When we all settled in we went out to explore the city a little. That night there was a fireworks showing for Guy Fawkes Day. Although, I don't like fireworks (boring) I did enjoy just looking around the city. When we first started walking around I was not impressed by Glasgow, but once we got downtown and started to see the city come alive it was quite nice. I would NEVER be able to live there (way to big, with too many people), but it was a nice place to visit for a few days. After the fireworks were over we left and caught the underground train back to the Hostel for dinner. We made pasta with sauce, peppers, and mushrooms. When dinner was all cleaned up everyone went upstairs to get ready to go out to the club. Svenja and I decided that we didn't want to go so we stayed behind and played UNO for a while, then went to bed. We were Tired!
The next day we just walked around town and saw a lot of the city. We also took a lot of 'Family Photos' that I will post later once Julia uploads them.. I don't have much to say about Sunday other than we did A LOT of walking, and when I say a lot I mean a lot! I guess that I will say that one of the first things we did was went to the Botanical Gardens, pictures posted below. Well, actually I don't have any of the gardens, but I do of the trails that we walked on, and they were beautiful. It was mid morning and there was fog, it was something you would think of if I said Scotland. Beautiful scenery and a soft fog. Once we toured as much as we could before our feet screamed we went back to the hostel to just chill and get ready for dinner. We decided that we would go out to a pub for dinner and 2 of our hostelmates joined us. After the food was eaten we headed back to get ready for bed. Although, we did not go directly to bed, we went downstairs to the common area and played a few hand of UNO before calling it a night. We had to be out of our room by 10 the next morning.
Monday morning came at the usual time and we left the hostel and headed toward the train station. We were going to store our suitcases there so that we wouldn't have to carry them around the city for 5ish hours. With the luggage all packed away we stopped to get coffee (frosted mint hot chocolate for me, didn't feel like a chilled mocha today) Warm beverages in our hand we started in the direction of the bus station. We were going to try and catch a bus to go see this really cool house, only it turned out to be even better than imagined. When we got our bus and were dropped off at our location we started down the trail. The site was beautiful and we had to go see the cows. Catherine was in Love with them. They were quite cute! After the cows we went to the house, and they had the largest collection of Spanish Paintings outside of Spain, really neat! After we toured the house and got our feet a little dirty we headed back to the city to go find someplace to eat. The previous day we walked by a bakery that had a cafe upstairs and so we decided that we would go have lunch there. When lunch was over we went to the grocery store to get food for the long train ride home. A little while later we headed toward the train station to retrieve our luggage and catch our train home. Thankfully I brought my IPod and my Nook, that kept me quite occupied for the long trip. By the time I got back to Hull I had finished one book that I had started earlier, finished a whole other one and started on a third. (They were not that long of books, so don't panic! ) Finally we were home, because I don't know if I could have read one more word!
A trip out of town to see one of the oldest houses in Glasgow?
I think.
Today has not been anything spectacular, I went to class and we talked about Frank Lloyd Wright, one of my favorite people to talk about! Whew, then after class it was homework and a 2 hour nap. I think I deserved that, even if I didn't I was going to take it anyway! Haha. So until I post the 'awkward family pictures' Goodbye!
A few of our family photo's... I will keep posting as they are uploaded to facebook. These are photos by Julia
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