BOBBY MCFERRIN

Sunday wasn't all that eventful until later in the day. Briana and I went to the library to fill out forms for Arcadia University. Arcadia is the program I'm with in Scotland, so we have to fill out orientation and host family surveys. After that we went grocery shopping and found a great grocery store near us. It's called Waitrose and is similar to Whole Foods, only I think it is cheaper. After buying some groceries, we came back to my flat and cooked dinner. We made a wonderful dinner of penne pasta, garlic bread, and broccoli. yummm. We were so stuffed by the end of dinner and all we wanted to do was lay down and watch a movie. Braveheart had finally downloaded on my computer, but it is 3 hours long so me, Briana and Laura watched Mulan, which was playing live on channelsurfing.net.

Our delicious dinner.

Today was my first real day of class. At 10am I had an art history seminar. There are only about 10 people in the seminar and the grad student leading the discussion seems very nice. She made us get right into art history and talk in front of the class about paintings we didn't know. We had to try and guess what time period they were from and what the artist was trying to focus on. I think it will be a good seminar, though. After class, I went back to my flat to relax for a few hours before going to my first art history lecture at 3pm. The lecture was fine, the same as any art history lecture I have sat through. I have these 1 hour lectures three times a week, Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday.

Once class was over, Briana and I walked to the subway because we wanted to go downtown and walk around St. Enoch Centre, which is a big shopping mall downtown. On our way to the subway we bumped into Laura who was coming back from her bagpiping lesson, and she ended up joining us on our adventure downtown. We didn't spend too much time in the mall because everything downtown seems to only be open until 6pm. On our way back home, we bumped into a friend who told us about a performance going on at 8pm with Bobby McFerrin for Celtic Connections. Celtic Connections is a month long festival in Glasgow, that brings so many different performers to Glasgow. (CLICK HERE to check out the website.) Laura and I knew we really wanted to go to the concert. We had been invited to go to a pub, but I couldn't imagine turning down Bobby McFerrin for a pub. Briana is coming down with a cold, so she decided to stay in for the night.

At around 7:30, we headed over to the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall in the city centre. We ended up having to take a taxi half of the way because we were running a little late. Once we arrived at the concert hall, we bought our tickets and went to our FRONT ROW BALCONY seats! The concert was unbelievable. Bobby McFerrin is incredible and I feel so lucky to have been able to see him perform live. He is really into audience participation, so I found myself singing and humming throughout most of the concert. He invited people onstage to dance and sing with him, and it was all entertaining. I even snuck a few pictures of him, one of which you can see below. It seemed like the concert went on for a while and I was expecting my watch to say 11pm at the end of the concert, but it was only 10pm. Laura and I were hungry so we went to a little grab and go food place and ate there before heading home. Now we are back at the flat, I'm so full from dinner, and I have class tomorrow at 9:30 at the Glasgow School of Art. I'll need to leave for the subway around 9am to get there on time...I don't think that will be too hard for me, I just need to go to sleep soon.

Bobby McFerrin with a bunch of audience members that ran up onstage to sing. (He only asked for 12, but there were about three dozen people onstage.)

Goodnight...I love and miss you all!

Love Always,

Jess