Scotland

This weekend I went to Edinburgh, Scotland! I love Scotland. It was a trip for my entire study abroad group. We took a five hour train ride back and forth, not exactly comfortable by extremely worth it. The thing about Edinburgh is it is built upwards. This causes the city to become very windy, so don't bother expecting to have decent looking hair. We arrived on Saturday and immediately went on a two hour walking tour of the city. We went to the palace, and my favorite part was going to the observatory. It was actually pretty scary because it is very high up and so incredibly windy, at times it felt like I was flying. Everyone I was with acted like little kids, jumping around, and pretending we were birds. That night we went to these underground crypts where our tour guide shared all these ghost stories with us. He wore this long black cape and enjoyed screaming in our faces, scaring the hell out of us. Unfortunately for him, during one of his stories, the song "I feel like a women" by Shania Twain was blasting because their was a wedding near by. This took away from the scare effect somewhat but our tour guide just took it to the next level in another crypt, where he literally was jumping at us. He was very strange but it was very effective. The next day we woke up early to go to Edinburgh Castle. It is huge! I wandered around with a few of my friends, and when we reached the prisoner of war dungeon, I locked my friend Sam in one of the cells. Lets just say he wasn't too happy with me, but I entertained many of the people inside the dungeon visiting. I think he was more upset when I wasn't actually sure if I would be able to unlock the cell door and announced this as I was locking him in.  Anyways after that we went on a Whisky Scotch experience tour. When we arrived we got to sit in this moving barrel and it took us around, explaining how whiskey is brewed and made. After we got to taste test. So I have never had whiskey before and not prepared for its impact. I took a sip that was way to big and I felt like my heart was on fire. So that got watered down immediately. Lesson learned, whiskey scotch is very strong and not very good. That night we went to a pub quiz near our hostel. My team didn't do so hot by another team from my trip actually won the whole thing. In fairness I did help them a little when  my team gave up. The next morning we took another five hour train ride back to London, and did school work the rest of the day. I recommend everyone should go to Scotland, it is absolutely beautiful with these giant grassy hills looming everywhere, and its amazing architecture.

Barcelona

Hi everyone, I apologize by being so behind with my posts but I've had a very busy couple of weeks! A few weeks ago I went to Barcelona for spring break! It was beautiful! We stayed in a hostel right by the water and walked around so much that the soles of my boots fell off! We went to every touristy thing you could possibly imagine. We took a tour of the Gothic city one morning, checking out all the cathedrals and towering architecture. We also went on something called a tapas tour. For those who do not know, tapas are pretty much appetizers, and you order a bunch of them and share. The only part I really didn't enjoy was there love of eating pigs. They would hang these giant slabs of meat all over their stores, including hoofs, legs ect. I couldn't enter these stores because it made me want to vomit. We went to Park Guell and took pictures of the lovely view after sweating all over place from the trek to get there. It was nice seeing palm trees and oranges growing. And just throwing this out there, but Sangria is probably the best thing that has ever been invented. One night my friends an I went to this place called Ovella Negra and thought it was a good idea to share a 5 liter jug of sangria.... Anyways they serve popcorn with all their alcohol which is interesting. Sadly the ocean was much to cold to swim in, although we attempted to, it was nice to sit by it and we even ate dinner on it one night. Thank goodness Barcelona is have economic issues because I could have spent so much more money then I did. And just a heads up the Sagrada Familia is this massive cathedra and it is still not finished after being started more then 100 years ago, however it is probably one of the ugliest buildingsI have ever seen (sorry Gaudi). I know this post isn't the most descriptive one but when you see me you can ask me anything you want! 1 more month to go!