365 Days Later...

Can you believe it? Are you shocked? It's been 365 days since I hopped into the British taxi cab and said please take me to my high priced hotel where I'll stay for 10 days b/c I wouldn't let a flat over the internet. So let's recap. If not for you, for me b/c I didn't have this blog a year ago.... Memoirs of LT. Let me break it down.

September

• 10 days in the Links hotel
• Started school, thought to myself, who needs money? (should have checked that little exchange rate) p.s. GBPs aren't the same as Euros.
• Found a garden flat that looked better than the hotel, realized no oven, a shower that trickled and the lou was on siesta
• Went to a Ceilidh with the class
• Went to a party and found a boy (good Laura...way to be single)
• 9 classes...WHAT???

October

• Torrance was Mon-Fri (actually 9/80 schedule)
• Edinburgh-studies were 24/7 and the feeling of guilt if you went to the pub
• Weekend in Perth with the friends
• Realisation that no one can dial an international phone call

November

• Visit from Cliff
• Trip to Amsterdam
• Ditch a couple of classes...not good!

December

• Complete freak out from final
• Christmas Ball
• Home with the fam...Ya-Woo!

January

• Hogmanay, Edinburgh's New Year Celebration
• Saw the Edinburgh and surrounding sites before school started.
• Trip to Stirling
• New semester, elective courses, cool profs
• Received 1st semester grades and learned that people with English as a Second Language schooled me.
• With these exchange rates, by god I will learn Finance before leaving this school...Behavioral Finance, Take 2
• Trip to the Highlands

February

• Visitors...Ya-Woo!
• My aunt and uncle, Bill and Leslie Toner from Chicago
• My Redondo Beach friends, Leslie and Aleece
• Trip to Dublin, met crazy Welsh, Orange Army Protests
• Study, study, study
• Broken Toe....bring out the gimp!

March

• End of the semester
• Sad goodbyes
• Freaking out; I'm moving to France
• Road trip-east coast of Scotland, Cantebury, Dover to Calais, Paris, Lyon

April

• I love Paris in the springtime; school at ENPC
• Mom and Dad visit me in Paris
• Shanghai surprise, I know they tried to kidnap me
• Friends from Edinburgh-Ana, Machiko, Ian, Annabel, Mariela, Hero!!!

May

• Morocco
• Met my current employer
• Morocco bacteria...Paris hospital...death bed...caretakers Jay and Ian
• the things you do to get out of your last MBA class; ya right.

June

• Enjoyed Paris with Jay
• Visit from Scott
• First trip to London via the Eurostar which I swore I'd never do
• So sad to leave Paris
• Time back in Edinburgh
• Move to London and start working, not cool (haven't even been unemployed for a year)

July

• Work placement in London
• I lived in my business
• Found a flat and pay more than living at the beach!
• Sarah visited me...ya-woo! Trip to Edinburgh

August

• I can't type anymore (where'd the @ symbol go?), can't spell anymore (is it s or z?) and who says ZED anyways?, it's ZEE, strange words (is it a queue or a line?)
• John Fellows visits
• I have no friends
• Jay hangs out
• Figure out my dissertation topic, thanks Jay
• Edinburgh goodbyes...it's all over

Edinburgh really is over and it's rather sad. The full-timers turned in their dissertations last Friday and the new kids are already claiming our territory. The few who remain are the internationals who are scattered through out the world.