What We Do When We Should Be Studying

Classes have gotten underway and everyone still feels like they are on vacation. Like Fresher's Week hasn't stopped. This week we all realized just how much we should have been doing for the last two weeks and decided to procrastinate for another week just to be safe. So this is what we did instead.
MONDAY: Robert has no door handle. So instead of someone getting him a new door handle, they gave him an extra key because he is automatically locked out of his room with no door handle. Robert trusted Liz with his spare key.
That's what he gets.

TUESDAY: I found out that Aidan had never heard of a quesadilla. Being an absurd thing to not know, I marched everyone down to Tesco (the local grocery store) in the middle of the night to buy things to make quesadillas and we had a little Mexican food party in the pantry. Needless to say, they loved them!

WEDNESDAY: Julia from Germany, and I went shopping and explored Princes Street. Everything is far too expensive and all I fell in love with was a green jacket that is not warm and not waterproof. I can't find a rain coat. Everyone wears mini skirts and uggs. I need a parka. Trouble. These are all pictures of the other side of Princes Street. I think I would shop more in the States if this was the view every time I went to a different store.



Thursday: Liz and I were hanging out in the pantry eating grilled cheese sandwiches at about 10 at night, being our usual late night activity, and I asked if they ate s'mores here. She said she didn't know what they were. I was trying to explain them and she was all caught up on graham crackers. Because they don't have graham crackers here! So I marched Liz back to Tesco to buy things to make S'mores. It was worthless. I had to buy tea cookies instead of graham crackers and they didn't have any marshmallows so we had to go to another store for those.
As we were walking back from the store we ran into Aidan and Robert. They are both in the Mountaineering Society and were going to a party. We were dragged with. The s'mores would have to wait. The party was jungle themed. We were unaware. And very out of place.

We returned home to jungle ourselves.
I have limited jungle attire being that I only have 2 suitcases worth of clothes in the first place. I am a tourist stranded in the jungle. It's really all about the hair. I was still made fun of.

FRIDAY: Finally time to make s'mores.
Step 1:
Rich Tea Biscuits=Graham Crackers. Kind of.
Step 2:
Cadbury Dairy Milk=Hershey's Milk Chocolate. Kind of.
Step 3:
Mallow Cocktail=Marshmallows. Kind of.
Notice the multi colored and multi flavored marshmallows. Not good.
Step 4: Pre Microwave

Step 5: Post Microwave
Step 6: Results
Liz loves them.
Ellen loves them.
Christopher loves them.
I would consider this to be a success of integrating American food into the Scottish diet. Yes.

WEEKEND: Instead of my usual activities such as castle scouting, going to different countries, seeing football matches and the like, this weekend was spent studying to make up for the week. I only saw my friends at meal times or if we were going on Library dates, although there were plenty of those.
I still haven't finished everything, so I'm off to learn a little about statistics.