I had a lazy weekend i must say. The rain has been constant each day, not at all surprising being Scotland. It's on and off so luckily you get a spot of good weather here and there. I spent Saturday basically morning doing my washing. Oh the joy! Then went and did my daily pilgrimage to MacDonalds to use the internet. It's annoying having to do so but gets my out of the flat. I also desperately needed shoes as it has become abundantly clear that my pairs of hot high heels i brought over wont be much good in the pouring rain. I headed on the trusty bus with it's tartan covered seats to St James Centre in the search of shoes. I managed to score a pair of black ballet flats for 10 pounds and thought that they would do the trick nicely. I was in need of black pants too but i got over the crowds in the stores and headed back to the flat. You can tell it's holiday season here with people everywhere, including plenty of school aged children, oddly enough, many from Italy and Spain. I just cant imagine how hectic it will be come August and the festival period!
On the way back to the flat i decided to check out my flat mates bar where she works. It's basically on the way home and it's scummy, so given my great outfit of track suit pants and thongs, i thought i wouldn't get kicked out. I handed over my 2.60 pounds for a Tennents. The local beer. I must say i was rather impressed and think that this will be my drink of choice whilst over here. I did a bit of people watching and it was really nice to see how the local corner pub is like the get together for the local residents. I'm told that residents ususally have an affliation with one bar and they tend to always go there. So when you walk in to the pub, you might find yourself one day getting something along the lines of a 'Norm!'. I love this concept. How very Eastenders. My flat mate says she sees the same people all the time.
I got to talking to John, one very drunk Scot. I must say, i think i only caught about 50% of what he was saying and just responded with a lot of, 'oh, yeah, ok'. I hope he didn't aks me to wear a puffy shirt. One thing that did make me laugh was that he called me a bonnie lass. I couldn't help but laugh and i think he wondered what was so funny. I just didn't think actually said that in normal conversation here. Not to mention that 'yes' isn't in the vocabularly and instead you must simply say 'I'. I still get a kick out of listening to the Scots. I only stayed for one beer as i hadn't eaten for ages and pints arent small.
I got some uber hot Thai food on the way home and ate it along with 2 litres of water when i got home. I'm glad i went to the pub, and i look forward to checking out other pubs. I could do one a night and still never get to see all of them, there are so many!
Sunday was an even more lazy day and i basically did some homework for my job interview next Tuesday. I needed to respond to questions on the company so i had to find out more about them. I also was surprised to get a call from my Uncle & Grandmother who are holidaying in Glasgow at the moment. They rang to see if i wanted to come over to Glasgow for the day tomorrow and naturally i agreed, should be good!
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