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???
- 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
- 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.
