There are ups and downs to being in St. Andrews at this particular point in my life. I love this place and this life and learning, and I love knowing that I can look back at the time and never wonder what if? Or feel that I missed out on something. I am living a wonderfully full and beautiful life. But I hate that I missed my dad meeting Branson's parents and that I am not there to see my sister come into her own in college. I miss the comfortable people that create home in Texas.
I realized the other day that I deeply miss the people I love, but I am beginning to love the person I am. I would rather spend every day with my Gramma this week, than people my own age. I feel out of my element with 20 somethings who like to party...when I like to pretty much spend my time on my own around here. I have not yet figured out why this is, or if it is something that I need to work on. I can see it being a positive thing if I have some sort of creative outlet or am getting good grades, but m only creative outlet is DABS drawing group with the Bell-Pettigrew Society (so with other people) and the Fine Food and Dining Society's Come Dine With Me dinner party competition (also with other people). I think I need to do the Coastal Walk..just get more fresh air. If only the air weren't so cold.
On a side note, three things I have learned recently: "Fancy dress" over here does not mean what we call fancy clothes...it means costumes. I made this mistake when I dressed up in a cute silk dress underneath my garbagewoman costume because we were supposed to dress in "fancy dress" as what we want to be when we grew up for one of my dinner parties. I learned that I like mussels, in their Moules Marinieres form, and that to eat one, you use an empty shell as pincers. Finally, I learned that they do in fact still use boilers for heat and hot water over here. So you do not want your boiler to die...or you just might as well.
I also love the new A Fine Frenzy, A Bomb in a Birdcage, the Mumford and Sons group, and Katie Herzig and would highly recommend them.
1 comment:
What a beautiful young lady you are and what an amazing adventure you're having! Your lesson about "fancy dress" made me smile as this was the same meaning this phrase had in Thailand. Of course the context of Halloween made it a bit easier to understand that it meant costumes :) Enjoy!
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