Meanwhile, things are going well for me. I am finally getting into the groove of things with my classes at the university. One thing to know about British universities, is that they tend to assign you an ungodly amount of homework every week, but the little secret is, (hush*), they don't actually expect you to do more then half of it. Basically, at the grad school level, it is
up to you to get what you will out of the whole deal and the professors don't really care what you do. Still, it is worth making sure you have a decent grasp of the material, or at least admitting up front when you don't get something, because otherwise you will be brutally exposed in your weekly discussion seminar and trust me, with only 8 people in a small room and the actual professor presiding (no GTFs here) you can't run and you can't hide.
Monday night we went out to dinner at the invitation of a University of Oregon Alum, Doug Ragen. I got to know him through my work as Internship and Mentorship Coordinator at the U of O honors college, and now he has taken an interest in Ryan and I because A) he is a golf nut and is crazyabout Scotland, and b) he loves helping out ducks. Anyhow, he is currently on one of his semi-annual golf trips to Scotland and monday night he treated us to a very nice dinner at one of Edinburgh's fanciest restuarants to introduce us to several of his Scottish friends. They were
all very nice and very eager to share wisdom about Edinburgh, and make very generous offers for help with whatever we need. Overall, though the environment was a bit more 'high falutun' than we're used to, it was a very pleasurable evening. Many thanks to Doug for his generousity.
Ok, now for the good stuff. For starters here are some pictures of lovely Edinburgh.
This is a picture of the Scottish Parliament Building which took 6 years to build and 200 MILLION pounds.
This view is from Victoria Street, in old town (where we live).
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