RIP LENIN

the gold fish has passed.

rugby, lenin, and a fish bowl

so today I've decided to tackle one of the biggest problems I've encountered so far this year... understanding Rugby. seeing as most of my guy friends play for the uni team, I've recruited one of them to sit down and explain how it works because so far all I get is that men run around a bloated football, only picking it up occasionally and then brutally attacking each other... so hopefully that will go well.
in other news... mimi and i have added a goldfish to our room! his name is Lenin, in honor of the day the berlin wall fell, which is also mimi's birthday (I bought the goldfish as her birthday present) the only problem is that little Lenin's tail as fallen off.. but he seems to be handling it well, hes still a happy swimming fish, and still enjoys dancing to loud music late at night with us... the better the bass the more he swims, so maybe its like music therapy??

a long time coming...

sorry i know its been forever since i've updated this... I've just been really busy lately with having a roommate and... uh work? no actually i have been doing a lot of work, i went to the library for 3 hours tonight! go me.
the poster campaign that lydia and i thought of finally got finished and the posters went up last week, except, as any of you with facebook might know, the posters are a little racy, and all the ones of lydia have been stolen already.... for those of you without facebook, the posters feature a naked lydia (covered by sheets), a naked boy (again, covered by sheets) and a made bed with a teddy bear on it with the phrases: Was it fun? Forgot something? and Remember last night? (respectively) along with information about where to get free condoms, sti tests and birth control. lets go socialized health care!!!
but life in edinburgh is really really really growing on me. its a really great city and i'm finally at the point where i see someone i know just about everywhere i go, which is impressive for a school of 27,000 students...
the next big event on my calendar is thanksgiving weekend i guess... the plan so far is to head to London for a long weekend in Tim and Ned's flat, which they have generously offered me for the weekend while they are in the States. thanks again guys!
so i'll try and be better about keeping this fresh, henry i dont know how you do it..

at last

i have a roommate! her name is Mimi, i met her at the very beginning of the year because she's dating my good friend Charlie from London who lives in Lydia's dorm, and it turned out that she lived down the corridor from me. So we started hanging out more and more and it turned out that we get along quite well. So when the school emailed me last friday claiming that accorrding to my contract I needed to find a roommate by the end of the week or they would assign me someone random or force me to pay the extra 2,500 lbs to have a a "superior single" just because my room is bigger than most... so when I Mimi about my dilemma she came up with a brilliant idea. On my hall there were 5 of us, Laura and Nikki, Becca and Mimi and myself, and we all get on fantastically. So Laura who was in desperate want of a single room, got to keep a single, Mimi who hated bunk beds with Becca moved into my room yesterday, and then Nikki took Mimi's place in Becca's room. So it all worked out in the end and everyone is happy!! I'll post pictures of the new improved week soon, i promise!

stopping aids!

so its official! lyds and i are the newest members of the stopAIDS club here! we've gone to two meetings so far and have come up with the idea for a poster campaign targeted towards freshmen about having safe sex and getting tested for STIs and all that good stuff. we had the "photo shoot" for the posters tonight and the pictures looking incredible, so ill put the final posters up when they are all finished. Last night we went to the student union run nightclub with the whole stopaids society and got dressed in red and distributed free condoms out to all the kids in line to get into the club, it was an absolute blast. the kids in the society love lyds and me bc we are both soo much younger than everyone else and so enthusiastic about the club. its a really great time and im glad we decided to get involved!

compliments of henry

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bagpipes in the wind

so yesterday lydia and i decided to go find the oldest pub in scotland, which is about a mile and a half away from our dorms on the other side of that huge mountain (Arthur's Seat) that sits behind our dorm complex. It was probably one of the windiest days I have ever experienced, but we didnt really realize that until after we had started to walk... Anyway as we trekked towards this pub we were walking on a cliff of sorts and all of the sudden, someone down below us in a little tunnel/enclosure area started practicing the bagpipes. That definitely qualified as one of the most beautiful moments of my life.