Juliacentralicious

Finally, Fresher's Week is over

Now life can get back to normal, thank god.
On Friday I caught a Historic Tour of Edinburgh from the ISC, which was a surprisingly good tour—we went down the Royal Mile, and the Grassmarket, and such. I learned many historic things, took some pictures, had a fun time scampering around the city. Then I popped by the afternoon swing taster class (well, technically I popped in right as the class ended, so I could catch the dancing). I'm unimpressed—the teachers weren't very good, they looked really silly doing their "let's impress the class with what they could learn" routine, and the club members were loose leads, though they can bal a bit. I think it'll be a pass on the swing, sadly.
We tried going out to a club that night, which was just about the same as every other club or dance so far—slow start, then the dancing picks up and hormones start raging. Bah to that. Though the music was pretty good.
Saturday I did almost nothing. So there. It was lovely. We tried going to a supposed student event with fajitas, but there were none to be had, and no one else there, so we went to the Three Sisters pub and just hung out for a while before giving up and going home.
Sunday was quite exciting—we had the Chocolate Treasure Hunt! Teams of four (Team Raging Awesome was strangely enough me and three other Americans I had met before) romping around the city following bizzarely obscure rhyming clues and in general being grateful that I had gone on that historic tour earlier, since we were actually able to find some of the places. Though we didn't win, or even get close. There was still free chocolate at the end, and Natalie and I joined so that we can capitalize on that "weekly chocolate" bit.
After that, I went over to the GEAS meeting—the roleplaying group. I meant to just watch a game and figure out how it all worked, so they shuttled me over to a group just starting to play "Best Friends"—a game based on how high school girls can be best friends but secretly hate each other. Then I got talked into playing. We had quite a blast, being the loudest group there. I ended up joining, since it really was so much fun, and then I joined them at their pub (every society has a sponsor pub, apparently, where they get a discount on drinks— and I mean every single society). We had quite a blast, discussing Firefly, Star Wars, and all sorts of other geeky things.
Today I didn't do too much— Uni holiday and all that. I stopping by a salsa class with the other US swinger, but it was a pretty bad class and overpriced. Then I hit up a pub quiz with the 50 Things Society, which is apparently what people do here. Many, many obscure difficult questions about everything. It was decent fun, but nothing too exciting. Sadly, our team got second to last place. Ouch.
Now it's bedtime— class tomorrow, as well as the chocsoc meeting!

posted by Julia @ 3:55 PM