Long Time, No Blog

I have been a busy busy bee this last week and haven't kept up on my blogging very well!! So that can be a good thing though, because it means this one will be extra extra long and juicy to make up for time lost. Hum. I have to think all the way back to last weekend and my adventures. I'm sure all I did over the weekend was homework and hang out, nothing so spectacular. Monday I had a busy day of class, then aerobics and some running, showered, and then I went out to eat with 15 of our friends at the Sports Cafe. It was so much fun, but really weird because there were American sports like football and olympic swimming (usa team) and just really out of place things for decoration. Tuesday I had basically the same beginning of the day routine with class, then combat/tae-bo exercise class to loosen my aggression (haha just kidding. but it was fun!), actually I have more to say about that and then I'll continue. This was the first time I went to Combat and it's basically a class where you punch and kick at air to some music. But the instructor is seriously the coolest guy in the world. Not only is he super super fit, and yes he is one of "those guys" who wears a super super tight shirt to show it off, but I didnt mind. Any way, he has this whole class action packed down to a musical routine. He sings along, he dances a bit, and he gets right up in your face and acts like you punched him. Im always on board for a little bit of entertainment while I workout and that was right up my alley. So Tuesday night then a couple of my friends (Carrie, Rhea, Me, Paul, and Jayden) went to this pub called "The Box" because it was open mic night and we had a friend who told us he was going to sing and play the guitar. Well it turns out that he was off at a different pub that night, and so we decided to stay and listen to a band and then all of the different people who went up for open mic. For next Tuesday we're going again because Jayden said he'd do a little gig or something. We'd all sing along too. Might be terrible, but fun, right?! So along with just hanging out Tuesday night, we decided to plan a trip for Wednesday to Loch Lomund in the town of Arrochar or Cambelltown, I dont know which one really. Then come's along my Wednesday and I found myself waking up at 7:30 packing a lunch and going over to Paul's and he made us all breakfast and then we got on a bus at 9:00 and we were off on our way. It took and hour to get to the town and we spent another 5 hours hiking and mountain climbing. It was definitely one of the most physically challenging/exciting things I have ever done in my life. When I went to Mexico in high school and we climbed pyramids, it just didn't compare to this. Because on pyramids you have nice and neat little steps that if you just keep climbing you'll eventually reach a leveled top. But with mountain-hills there are about one million ways to climb up, nothing is level, there's ice and snow or rain and water trails all over. It's unpredictable! So we ended up making it to about the kinda top as far as we could tell with clouds in the way. Weather started to get pretty bad the more we kept climbing higher. It was all the sudden cold and my hands were freezing and soaking from grabbing onto rocks and snow and whatever else I found in nature to keep my grip. Plus it got pretty darn windy and it was foggy so when we took pictures at the top you couldn't see that we were even as high up as we were. Still just being outside and doing something productive with my friends felt amazing. When we reached the bottom, (we took a much easier path down instead of cutting through the forest and waterfally area like on the way up...detailed more in some pictures on fb) we all just took a little break and sat down for a bit. I packed two pb&j's and some granola and peanut butter puffs. Also, we kept taking random picture breaks and pulled out some malteasers to eat, which are like chocolate whoppers. It was a really funny image to be out in the wilderness and hiking and doing all this nature stuff and to just stop and whip out some chocolate. haha. Any way, so after the hiking-climbing portion of our day was over we hung out at a pub and I drank a really expensive 4oz hot chocolate, but it was definitely needed. Then we hung out in the pub for a couple of hours still and just rested and drank some tea/beer/and ate fries with malt vinegar and granola bars. The bus came to pick us up around 8pm and we headed back. I was too tired out to go for pub night, plus I had just been at the pub for a few hours so I tuckered home and cleaned my room and ate a lot of warm food and then went to bed early for once! Today I woke up refreshed and am now bound and determined to start my end of term essays for History of Scottish Society and Children's literature. Girls night tonight, which means we stay in and watch movies. It's interesting to say "girls night out" when I really mean "in". I need to go through the pain of doing laundry again today. Plus I need to wash my dirt covered and soggy new balence shoes. I've got a lot of "to do's" and chores/errands on my list today! It's almost been one month since I've arrived in Glasgow and time is moving too too too fast!!