Recapping #1

mtfwagner
Feb 22, 2015
2 min read

Guys, I don't know where to begin or end these things. I've been here a month as of yesterday, so I guess I'll try to fit in some random things ranging from the first couple weeks to current happenings. We'll just do a quick highlights reel and call it a night:

•Living in a small flat in a big city has been the fulfillment of some longterm dreams of mine. Having life within walking distance is natural, efficient, and in every way excellent.

•When you bring people together from 3 different continents, everyone gets sick with new strains of familiar diseases. Hopefully this will lead to international immunity in the near future, but it's been a pretty disease-ridden first month for the RGU MSc Physio class of 2017. • I'm almost 100% healthy for the first time since arriving, which means I was able to belt sweet Broadway ballads in my flat today. I miss music so much that it's taking an almost-physical toll on me and starting to wreak emotional/mental havoc. The search for performance outlets has moved up to the top of my to-do list for this week.

•I found a tremendously gorgous pool/athletics complex ~10 minute walk from my flat.

•In the official start of my cryptozoology career, I did spend some time cruising Loch Ness yesterday. No confirmed sightings, but it's a big loch. She's out there somewhere.

•We had a Galentine's (think Parks & Rec) brunch last Saturday and you can't imagine how nice it is to have classmates that appreciate the right TV shows. Such an important thing. •Speaking of the right TV shows, some of us have been on a hunt to find our MacLaren's (HIMYM), and we may have this past Friday! More on that later.

•Mardis Gras is called PANCAKE DAY over here. They just eat lots of pancakes! As a nation! It's the most beautiful thing!

•The cathedral has an African choir and it's not a bunch of white suburbanites trying to sing gospel music! It's genuine former residents of the African continent, singing/percussing beautifully. Traditional liturgical music with an authentic African style is something everyone should want to experience. •I bought a bike today and rode it home in what has been the most stereotypically Scottish weather since my arrival. I almost died of rainy freezingness. But I didn't get hit by a car, and that's the most important (and surprising) thing.

•Domino's delivers at 12:30am and delivery fees don't exist over here. They also deliver Ben & Jerry's Peanut Butter Cup ice cream. Knowledge is power.

I'll talk about London next week. It's a gamechanger.