Hey all! Sorry I have not posted in a while, but I have been keeping busy with classes and volleyball tryouts and such. Therefore, I shall give you the highlights of my week! Tuesday was an exceptionally fun day because I had volleyball tryouts! They were at 6 pm until 9pm, however this time they did not provide transportation, so I had to make the trek on my own! It was a good hours walk from my flat, but I guess it was a good warm-up. There were far fewer girls there then there was at the taster session, for which I am grateful. Plus it was a lot more organized which eased my OCD nature, which was also a relief. We did organized drills and played this game called tennis and I really wished I had my knee pads! I got a couple floor burns for my effort, but I got the ball so it was worth it and I did not even feel the pain. :P For, the last hour we scrimmaged and it was a blast. I was a little awkward at first because I was the only one talking on the court because that is what I was trained to do, but they said it helped so I kept it up. We actually worked well together for never having played on a team together before! Any way, I heard back from the Team Captain on Wednesday and I made the team! I am so happy and it is not a terrible time commitment, so it should not interfere with travel or classes. We just have practice twice a week and then games on a few weekends, I believe, but I have not gotten the schedule yet. I shall let you know more after practice on Tuesday!
The next awesome thing that occurred this week was the Ballet. Maggie, Sam, Sally and I all had tickets to see the Rite of Spring, so we all got dressed up and went out. It was absolutely amazing! The first act only featured 3 dancers, but the intensity was absolutely brilliant. We could literally feel the tension and emotions from the dancers even though we were in the balcony. Here are some pictures of the theatre so you all can get a feel to where we were.
I loved the second act because it took a complete turn from intensity to levity. It was so funny. All the dancers were wearing carnival-like outfits and dancing to jazzy-like music. There was this one guy in orange and he was my absolute favorite. I called him the Clark Kent of the ballet. I said this because throughout the act he acted like a nerd with glasses and all and he was totally enamored with this one woman who was the star of the show. He did all sorts of silly things to get her attention including dancing with a woman who appeared to be a foot taller than him. In actually he was hunched over and she was dancing point like the entire time. This reminded me of Clark Kent especially when Christopher Reeves plays him because he hunches too to look smaller and less muscular. Let me tell you, as obvious it is to the world watching the superman movies that Clark Kent is Superman, it was just as obvious that this dancer was one of their best and the most built for that matter. I am not ashamed to admit that I quite admired his physique and he had the best gluteus maximus that I have ever seen. I am happy to report Sally, Maggie and Sam all agreed with me.
Now this is where some of the cons of Scotland appear so brace yourself and maybe I should say differences instead. Once, I got back from the ballet I was attempting to work on this assignment for my physical chemistry class. I must have worked on it for hours, but I was getting no where because I just did not understand it since we had not covered the material in class yet. I was getting frustrated to the point of tears, so I texted Meghan to talk and I felt better afterwards, so thanks Meghan. The reason I was so frustrated is I am not used to how they structure, at least this class here. I am used to having assigned readings before class so I can prepare and ask any questions if need be. Here, however they do not do that and the classes are quite large. Another thing that is peculiar to me is that in my Physical Chem class I do not always have the same professor for every lecture. They vary depending on the topic of lecture. However, things started looking up on Friday when I asked some people in class about the assignment, it turns out I printed out week's 3 assignment and not week 2 so I was doing the wrong one. This means it was okay if I did not understand everything on it yet. The only bad thing was I had until 5pm that day to get the correct one done. I was able to do it, but it was definitely not my best work. Now I know what to expect though, so I am sure I will get used to things soon enough. I guess hiccups are to be expected at a new school.
For my last highlight of this week we went on a grande adventure to the highlands. Sam, Sally, Maggie and I all bought tickets through the international club to see the highlands. We saw the Duke of Argyll's castle, Glen coe and the Harry Potter Bridge more formally called Glenfinnan Viaduct. The castle of the Duke is not just a tourist attraction, the Duke and his family actually live there, which I think is so sweet. I actually met the Duke's son and he was super nice and attractive. I fell in love with him at first sight and we set our wedding date for the spring on his front lawn. So come summer you guys will have to call me Duchess Marissa of Argyll! (None of that actually happened. It would have, if my life were a book unfortunately it is not so all we did was take pictures and imagined what it would be like to live in that picturesque place.)
My Future Home ;)
Cute candy chop in the town with the Castle. I said it looked like the one from Willy Wonka and it even had the Willy Wonka Chocolate!
Lastly, we visited the Harry Potter Bridge and it was pretty cool because we timed it so we could see an old steam locomotive pass over like the one from the movie. We took many pictures and we even went so far as to touch it. Although, I did tell Maggie and them that Daniel Radcliff actually did not ride this train because it was from the second movie when they flew Ron's car to school since Dobby barred the entrance to King's Cross so Harry would not go to school. This news did not daunt them or make the view any less spectacular. Any way I need sleep because I feel a cold coming on, so good night and thanks for reading!
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