White and Red

I went for ice-skating today because it was relatively cheap for students on Mondays (£ 4) and I thought I should learn it. I would say I was a good beginner; I didn’t fall and towards the end of the 45-minute session, I was skating like a boss. J

Had my first snow experience too about a fortnight ago. It was forecasted to snow at night, so I waited and waited and then I looked out of the window. I had to look really thoroughly at the light source from the street lamp to see if it’s raining or actually snowing. ( It’s always raining in Glasgow, I wouldn’t want to look like a fool posting on Facebook that it’s snowing if it actually wasn’t.)Then, my Facebook newsfeed was filled with posts of snowing in Glasgow. Many took the opportunity to had a little snowball fight, but I have yet to had one.

 

I thought I would blog a little on my living in one of the university halls: Cairncross House. It has four levels, including ground floor. Every floor is divided into rooms, communal kitchens and communal bathrooms. I am lucky to be sharing a big kitchen with 10 other people. I get to meet people from different countries and get to know them in person.

And so, we had a little Christmas dinner together the other day. There were macaroni and cheese, soy sauce cabbage, soup, Japanese rice cakes, ice cream, donuts and mulled wine. That was a pretty good student feast, I would say. We were also Secret Santas for each other. It was definitely an exciting thing to do. Randomly picking a person’s name from the draw, looking for a gift for the person, sneakily place the wrapped gift into the pile of Christmas gifts and wait… till gifts are presented to respective persons and that person would guess who their Secret Santa was. I got a kettle; very practical but useful. Good for me.

 



Stay tuned as I journalise my experiences in this beautiful land. Oh, Glasgow how I love you so. J