First Day in Ebinburgh (The time Zone!)

Note: Due to internet issues, this post wasn't able to get to the blog. It was written about 3 days ago. Tomorrow, if I get time and internet, I'll be adding pictures and a new post about Barcelona. Thanks for reading!

3 days to Barcelona! And already 5 or 6 time zones ahead! Happy Father’s day!

The ship is quite enjoyable. Along with Global studies, I have classes in Musical History and fantasy-based Creative writing. We’re reading the original Pinocchio – can you say best classes ever? In a few different languages?

Unlike Edinburgh, whose accent is not so thick as Glasgow’s (more on that later), none of the countries we are visiting will have English as a main language. To be fair, in Egypt they’ll probably peak English while I blunder about in Modern Standard Arabic. Can anyone who speaks Spanish, Italian, Farsi, or French give me a few pointers?

This is one of the goals in the S@S program, to immerse you where you don’t speak the language, and go on true adventures. And adventures surely my comrades will have; it’s no secret that the mainland bars are the first stop for many a student. Not me of course… not much. Did I mention my mom and dad read this blog? So yeah. Hi Mom and Dad!
       
Clubs of course are in full swing, and yours truly has begun the International Movie Club, which will hold movie nights on ship, with a grand total of… 3 members. The LGBT next door had a good 30, though I won’t complain, as after our first meeting myself and everyone one else slipped into theirs. Barcelona apparently celebrates 10 days of gay pride, and we’ll be arriving on the 6th day (I think). Awesome.

Anyway, we’ll be starting the movie club off, hopefully, with a screening of Kite Runner once we leave Barcelona. The title? Well, while switching my clocks around, I noticed that tomorrow we’ll be on the same time as Edinburgh. I know it should be a small deal, but this is really a big thing for me. It just, somehow, makes it so much more real that I’m not only doing S@S, but this fall I’ll be in Edinburgh. I’m not trying to brag, sorry if I come off like that, I just can’t believe my luck.

It’s been 10 minutes since my first test. Quiz, I mean. And a few hours since my first graded paper. It’s going by faster than I’ve imagined, and it’s only been a week. On the boat, we have classes every day, since we don’t have classes in port, and have some days off in-between. This may seem like a lot, but overall we only have 22 classes. Edit: Got an 'A' on my first paper - woohoo!

Oh, have some pictures.(Edit: I'll put these in tomorrow, I swear!)

-Weary