Back from Scotland, School, Stratford upon Avon, Bath. Oh boyy.
It’s been quite some time since my last little update. I pretty much told everyone how crazy fun Scotland was. Not to mention it’s great architecture and culture. Being there makes you feel like you’re stepping back in time, and that you’re living in some sort of medieval town. The town was always crowded with people. ALWAYS. I guess it’s because of the Edinburgh Arts Festival, which brings comedians, actors, dancers, performers from all over the world to perform for international crowds. I got to see one play, which was a bit short, but it was a bit intense for me. I went inside the Edinburgh castle, which was pretty breathtaking from its outside (The inside was cool too, but I liked admiring it from afar). The night life was pretty awesome, but way different than what we have in the US. Clubs don’t start getting crazy till about 1 am in the morning, and they always close at 5 am. (I have yet to stay up that late!!). One thing I could complain about was the service at restaurants. HORRIBLE. But my theory is that since waiters don’t get tipped here, they hardly care about customer service. But the food itself was definitely better than the one here in England. The trip was really fun, but it definitely went by too fast. Returning to England was a pain in the ass becuase OF COURSE the bus in which I was riding broke down, so we had to wait for hours for it to be repaired. The other bus, which was way more crowded with people from our program, got to go to Fountain Abbey, which is apparently really nice… and of course I didn’t get to go… The drive back was like 10 hours long. Not the most pleasant day.
I’ve had class this entire week, which is a lot more different than the first week considering that I only had class once or twice at first. Now, my painting class is about 4 hours long (bleh).
Anyways, today we are going to Stratford Upon Avon- which is SHAKESPEARE’S birthplace. We’re also going to see a Shakespeare play in town. It should be pretty awesome. I’ll post some pics up later. This weekend we’re going to Bath and to see the Stonehenge!!
PERDON por no escribir en una semana! Pero les cuento que Escocia esta padrisimo. Creo que me gusto un poco mas que Inglaterra. Es muy diferente. Es casi como si la ciudad de Edinburgh (ciudad de Escocia) jamas hubiera sido afectada por el tiempo. Los edificios, catedrales, monumentos, etc son bellisimos y tambien bastante viejos. Las calles siempre estaban llenas de gente (por que habia un festival de arte todo el mes de Agosto donde participan actores, bailarines, comdiantes, etc). El lugar era chingonsisisisimo. Lo unico que no me gusto fue el servicio en los restaurantes. No se por que los meseros no tratan bien a los clientes (creo que es porque aqui no se da propina, y pues les vale madre el servicio al cliente jajaj). El castillo de Edinburgh fue mi favorito. Esta grandisimo y esta encima de una montana, asi que puedes verlo en todas partes de la ciudad. Tambien escalamos dos montanias. En Una se podia ver toda la ciudad de Edinburgh y en la otra se veia pura naturaleza y lagos. Preciosos lugares.
Para mi mala suerte, al regresar de Escocia nuestro camion se descompuso, asi que nos quedamos esperando como 3 horas para k arreglaran el camion. El otro camion que venia con nosotros se fue a conocer “Fountain Abbey” que tambien es muy bonito, pero a mi no me toco conocer por lo que le paso a mi camion… nimodo :(
Hoy nos vamos a “Stratford Upon Avon” que es el pueblo en el que Nacio y se crio Shakespeare. Dicen que es un lugar muy padre, asi que luego les cuento como me fue. Veremos una obra de teatro de Shakespeare hoy en la noche. Creo que el lugar esta como a 2 horas de aqui, asi que tendremos que irnos en camion de nuevo, pero hoy mismo regresamos a Cambridge. En este fin de semana nos iremos a “Bath” y a ver el “Stonehenge” :] luego les cuento como me fue!!
aqui les dejo unas fotos de Edinburgh





