Abroad in Edinburgh

So a few weeks ago my friend Maria was describing a game she used to play to a group of us. It was called Wooga Chooga and sounded like tons of fun, so we decided - hey when exams are over we should play Frooga Dooga! So cut to yesterday evening 12 of us convened in the common room to make as many flour bombs as possible. The basic idea of Looga Booga is that it is capture the flag, but instead of tagging people to get them “out” you have flour bombs to throw at them instead. So we headed out in the darkness laden down with flour bombs, wearing all black, prepared to do battle.The game was long and fun, but eventually my team won! :D I had so much fun!! Oooga Xooga is such a great game, and I’m so glad I have the friends to play with!

Last night was the final hurrah of the school year at the CSU (Catholic Students Union). The evening started off in the common room, which was gorgeously decorated like a forest, with some canapes and fellowship before heading down to the garden room for dinner. We finished the evening with a spectacular ceilidh and then disco. The evening was intermingled with 3 acts of a CSU version “Midsummer Night’s Dream.” 

My family came to visit last week and we had a fun adventure :) We started by seeing the sights in Edinburgh: the castle and palace, Calton Hill and Arthurs Seat, the university campus and my flat. Then early Monday morning we set out on an epic bus tour of the Highlands and Skye - we were going to see all of Scotland in just 5 days! We started by seeing everything we could on our way to Inverness. An old church, a beautiful forest, a whiskey distillery tour, and the battlefield of Culloden were some highlights. After staying the night at the Atherstone B&B in Inverness we headed up to Ullapool and Lockinver where we discovered that Scotland has white sand beaches - crazy! We also got a big taste of Scotlands windy roads and gorgeous scenery. We ended back in Inverness for the night and the next day headed to Skye. On our way there we got our first look at the Highland cows, which were so cute and fluffy!! We had an amazing seafood lunch in Applecross and then headed across the Bealach na Ba which is the highest road in Scotland. We got to Portree for the night where we stayed at a crazily pink guesthouse (I didn’t get a picture, shame on me). We spent the next day touring around Skye; the places we went were so pretty because the faeries spend time there: the faerie pools and faerie glen. We left Skye the next day and saw Nessie when we looked out on Loch Ness from Fort Augustus. As we traveled back to Edinburgh we saw the peak of Ben Nevis from a distance and drove through the absolutely picturesque Glencoe. For our last day in Edinburgh we went to see the pandas at the zoo. The rest of the zoo was also really cool and we learned a bunch about animal behaviour and how they study it at the zoo. Overall a wonderful time! Miss you guys already :)

So every Wednesday some students from the Catholic Students Union make a 3 course meal for a group of other students; I am a regular eater and maker of said meal which is usually called Midweek Meal. This week midweek meal was on April 1st, aka April Fools Day, and even though some people around here claim that you can’t prank people after noon, I’m American and will continue pranking all day. So I got together a few friends to make an epically hilarious meal. 

To start with we filled all the drinking glasses with jelly (translation: Jell-o). 

Our first course was “Grilled cheese” actually though it was grilled pound cake with frosting in the middle :) yum!

Our main course was some pretty standard spaghetti except we made the spaghetti out of courgette (translation: zucchini) strips.

And to finish the meal we had some delicious cupcakes, which were actually cottage pies (meat and veg with mashed potatoes on top)

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