Freshers Week

This past week has been freshers week, which is basically orientation for all new students, but the fun kind, not the meetings, lectures, and icebreakers kind. The week started off with a ceilidh (traditional scottish dance party), and although several English girls were trying to sneak up on one of the Scottish boys to find out the answer to the infamous Do-they-wear-anything-under-the-kilt question, they were unsuccessful in catching him off guard, and the question still remains. Then the well known electronica group Pendulum played at one of the student unions, and they ROCKED! Ten minutes in, someone was already bleeding from the forehead and people were crowd surfing. Always a sign of a good show. And I was right up front! Then a few more themed parties, a formal, and a couple of club nights later, I was at a massive foam party!! That was obviously a blast. And all these events were enjoyed in the company of some fabulous people who live around my dorm building. We've got a nice little group together and we do communal shopping and cook family dinners together. It's pretty freakin precious, I won't lie to you.

So theoretically this is the end of the carefree fun since classes start this week. But I don't have class until Wednesday so I'm just gonna pretend it's still the weekend for another couple of days.

Amusing things about life in the U.K.

1.) Every time someone leaves their dog in the passenger seat of their car while running into a shop, I see the dog on the left side of the car and think for a second that it's driving.

2.) What we know as English muffins are just called muffins, and what we just call muffins are called... yup, American muffins.

3.) People take shots through their eyeballs! That's right, as in straight vodka to the eye. Apparently it gets you drunk faster. I seriously worry about the people who participate in this activity.