The last thing I wrote about was Photography and writing my cover letter. I pretty much finished my cover letter, now I'm just waiting for some comments so I can edit it even more. We had three girls coming to stay with us this week so we borrowed an extra mattress from one of our flat mates, and we bought a little air mattress. Before they arrived, we made a fort at the entrance of our room.
The fort we made with the extra mattresses/blankets in our room before the girls arrived.
Thursday, I had bagpiping from 4-5pm and it was one of the coolest classes we've had so far. We were led into the bar in the Piping Centre, and there ended up being a concert in the bar for us. It was beautiful. Piero Ricci was playing an Italian bagpipe, also called a Zampogna. Maurizio Marino played with Piero on his oboe. My jaw dropped as soon as they started playing and I could not bring it back up the entire performance. I have fallen in love with the Zampogna. It is a beautiful instrument, especially accompanied by an oboe. CLICK HERE to watch a video of Piero and Maurizio (and Piero's band). Piero is in the middle playing the Italian bagpipe, and Maurizio is the second from the right playing the oboe. (At 4 minutes and 30 seconds, Piero and Maurizio have a small duet.)
After bagpiping, we came back to our flat and hung out for a few hours before going to Bamboo, our favorite club downtown. Laura's 3 friends were here for a couple nights, so we had 3 girls sleeping in our room on Thursday and Friday. We took the girls out to Bamboo and had a great time. We have now made friends with the bouncer, Stewart, and the security guard, Paul.
Friday, our friend Ted was in a performance downtown, so we all went to support him. It was so much fun seeing him perform and the play wasn't too bad either. He kept talking about how horrible it was going to be, but I actually really enjoyed it. After the play we walked to the Underground, through George Square, and took the subway back to our flat. We all got dressed up for another night of dancing...only this time we went to Cheesy Pop because it was open until 3am instead of 2am.
Walter Scott's statue in the middle of George Square
Saturday, Laura and her 3 friends went to Edinburgh, while I stayed at the flat. When Laura got back (her 3 friends were already on their way back to Ireland) we had breakfast for dinner. Sarah made us french toast, Liam made eggs and bacon, and Briana was in charge of the toast. :-P
Since we had already gone out dancing for the previous 2 nights, we wanted to make it a pub night last night. We stayed on the West End of Glasgow, spent most of the night hanging out at 2 pubs, and then we were back at our flat by around 1:30am...an early night for us.
This morning (Sunday) we woke up, got ready and went to Curlers down the street to watch the Rangers/Celtic football (or soccer) game. It is a huge deal for Glasgow fans because both of these football teams are from Glasgow. One of our friends is a huge Rangers fan, so I couldn't go against the Rangers if I was going to be sitting at the same table as him. At around 12:30, the game started and we were rooting for the Rangers. (Kenneth Branagh, my favorite Shakespeare actor/director, is also a fan of the Rangers...that's reason enough for me to root for them.) The game was intense; 0-0 for the whole 90 minutes and then in the 3 minute overtime, the Rangers scored and won! Everyone in Curlers went crazy and then it was time for me, Briana, and Laura to get some food. (That's all we were thinking about most of the game, of course.) We walked up the road to Beanscene, a cute coffee shop with our favorite chili bowls. It was a great late lunch, and now we're all back at the flat relaxing. Another week of classes starts tomorrow and then Briana and I are off to Paris on Thursday. I can't believe we're just flying to Paris like it's nothing...I hope the weather will be okay.
Love and miss you all!
Love Always,
Jess
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