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I made it back to Scotland on Tuesday. It was great to be home, and I’m glad I took advantage of the time to relax and
Times Square
see everyone. At the beginning of the year, I hadn’t planned on making the trip home, but looking back, it was definitely a better decision than staying on the frozen tundra that is St. Andrews right now, having to cook my own food with the 10 people still left in the dorm.
Since you are going to be doing some traveling while you’re studying abroad, you’re going to need a place to stay.
There are many options out there: hotels, campgrounds, other peoples’ couches, and hostels. While hotels are nice, they are usually pretty expensive, and it can be hard to accommodate large numbers of people.
Believe it or not, there are actually websites out there that will help you rent a couch in some random person’s apartment for a night, but let’s be honest – who wants to curl up on the couch of stranger they don’t know in a foreign country.
My private jet
I’ve been back in the States for about a week now. The flight back may have been one of the worst traveling experiences I’ve ever had. Snow delays, airport naps, missed connections, and navigating the Newark airport all made for one long and interesting 25 hours of travel.
Now that's a kilt
Classes are officially over, and all of my work is finally turned in. I took some time over the past few days to look back on the semester, and I realized that although I’ve been here for months, there’s still plenty of things I haven’t done. Luckily, I’ll be back for another semester, unlike most study abroad students who are only here through Christmas (thank you Holy Cross for enforcing the whole year policy). So here they are, my New Year’s/ second semester St. Andrew’s resolutions:
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The end of the semester that is… We only have about a week and a half left of class, which means all the work I’ve put off over the course of the semester needs to get done. That translates into a very ordinary week – didn’t do much other than go to class and write papers.
Since I won’t be able to provide excitement via my usual great stories, I thought I’d provide a little entertainment instead. This is a Scottish band from right outside of Edinburgh, and only about 45 minutes from St. Andrews. I’ll bet most people have heard them before and hadn’t realized where they were from. Unfortunately, due to copyrighting, I couldn’t get the actual music video up (especially unfortunate becuase I’m pretty sure the guy who wrote the lyrics on the video has some of them wong), but the music is the important part anyway.
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I'm a 23 year old college grad, and during my junior year abroad in Scotland, I came to the realization that it's hard to know what you want to do in this world if you've never seen it. With that in mind, I decided to study abroad again during the 2011-12 academic year, this time in Beijing, China. Read more 