So this is going to be a longer post because I am cramming three days, but that just means more pictures!

SATURDAY:

After waking up earlier than I would have liked on a Saturday, I went and opened a bank account. YAY! I can operate without fees in the UK now! Then I went back to the flat and went out on a drive with Ruth and Jono. We drove along the coast and drove down to a lovely town that I forgot the name of. But thats ok because I do remember the name of the next place we went because I took a pic of the sign:

And we were going to hike/climb up this:

Thats right, the North Berwick Law hill. I know it doesn’t look daunting, and it wasn’t. It was a rather pleasant walk and at the beginning we ran into a cool dog:

And Jono picked some fresh black currants (don’t worry, I figured out they were blackberries).

They were oh so yummy and fresh! A perfect little burst of natural sugar to help us continue on our way.

We easily got to the top; I was in my sherpa boots that maybe look a lot like what people wore in back in the day while trudging through the Scottish landscape:

When we got to the top it was so freaking windy! So here are some blustery photos of me at the top, a fake whale bone (not sure why that was there), some more Sottish landscape and me at the tippy top!

After we conquered Berwick’s Law we headed to check out the beach. The cold beach. The gray beach with lots of seagulls. But it was pretty and nice in that depressing Sylvia Plath kind of way. We just kind of walked around and I did see something that was really surprising: KITE SURFERS!

This girl is NOT wearing shoes and she is going to catch a cold!

OK enough beach pictures – they’re all pretty much like this. And I was ready to go home at this point in the day anyway. So lets jump to

SUNDAY:

Sunday started out even earlier that Saturday. But it was International Student Welcome day for Napier. So excitedly I went. I was probably better off just sleeping in; I had already had everything set up that they were giving advice on and I didn’t meet any one from my program. But I did meet some very nice french people and saw some Scottish dancing. I also learned that the Craiglockhart campus used to be a mental institution. CREEPY!

I skipped out of the rest of the day after my crappy 2 o’clock hamburger and headed back to Leith. That night I went with Ruth and Jono to go watch some fireworks. So to give a quick back story, Edinburgh likes to have lots of festivals. The people of Edinburgh love fireworks. May I introduce the Festival of Fireworks!

It was an incredible display of fireworks above the Edinburgh Castle synced to the Scottish Symphony. They even played “God Save the Queen.” But she didn’t even bother showing up to this glorious festival praising her. Rude.

And now that brings me to today.

MONDAY

Nothing too special. Just more walking. BUT I did come across a nice place I can visit to remind me of home:

I didn’t get to try it out yet because it was closed:(. But I promise I will soonish whenever I need that Mexican kick. I’ll finish off this post with a really pretty view of one of the streets I walked down. Yeah – I live here now:)

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