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St. Andrews!

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— orudge @ 19/07/2005 4:17 pm

Wow, what a week. As many of my esteemed readership will know, I’ve spent the past week in St. Andrews, having a taste of university life, a little look at the golf, and generally a lot of fun. So, this is an unplanned ramble detailing what I did….

Saturday 9th July

The 9th was my 18th birthday, woo! I went to see Episode III, and was very impressed by it. I then went back to the Kirkwall Youth Hostel, and after a little while, went to bed, to wake up on…

Sunday 10th July

Sunday was a day of travel – catching the Orkney Bus at 9am which would take me down to South Ronaldsay, where I would catch a boat to John o’Groats, to be ushered onto Inverness. Then it was onto the Citylink bus to Perth at 3pm, then onto Dundee at around 5.30pm. Waited around a bit with a full bladder (the toilets had closed a couple of hours earlier), and finally got on the bus to St. Andrews, where I arrived at 7.11pm exactly, to be greeted by the mama smurf, Ann. I was introduced to a bunch of people, and generally started to get settled in, as Ann cooked sausages. Shortly after that, we all ended up down the pub, and had some enjoyably random conversations about everything from Python to gin!

Monday 11th July

Monday, Monday, what happened on Monday… well, during the day, Ann and everyone else was working, so I went out and explored the town. It was rather hot, too – some 28 degrees C, I believe. In the evening, I can’t quite remember what we did… oh yes, I remember, we went down to the East Sands and went paddling! That was quite good fun, we then ended up at the Union I think, on the dance machine and then playing distraction pool. Went back, had fun emptying sand all over the floor, and had more random discussions, I think.

Tuesday 12th July

Tuesday during the day was more or less the same as Monday. I took a load of photos, and the place was rather busy with all the golf preparations. It was even hotter on Tuesday than Monday. That night, we had a DVD night, and watched a few films (Shawshank Redemption, Love Actually, and some randomly uninteresting film called Bullet, I think… I was very tired by this point). Went to sleep, and that was that.

Wednesday 13th July

During the day, much the same as before, I think. I don’t quite remember, to be honest. In the evening, I don’t really remember either. DVDs again, possibly. Ah, yes, that’s it, we watched Ghostbusters. Hehe. 🙂 We did other stuff too, but I can’t for the life of me think what it was.

Thursday 14th July

Ann had Thursday and Friday off work, since the Open was taking place then. We (myself, Ann and Graeme) went into Dundee for the afternoon, where we met up with Dave (Ann’s academic dad) and Jill. Had some fun exploring the wonders of Dundee, and watching Dave look at shirts, hehe. In the evening, we were going to be going to a ceilidh, but then there was some confusion as to who was meeting who when, and we ended up down the Union instead, where Ann and I (who aren’t exactly the best pool players) managed to win a game against Graeme (and indeed nearly won another). Generally, mucho fun was had.

Friday 15th July

Again, I don’t quite remember what we did during the day on Friday… in fact, I think a lot of the day was spent sleeping, although I kept getting woken up by the bloody RBS helicopter that flew around to advertise during the Open, grr! Anyway, I think this was the day the bin was emptied. *shudder* In the evening was the Harry Potter launch night, so we had fun there… pics are floating around in the photo gallery.

Saturday 16th July

Last day in St Andrews, and we had a Star Wars marathon, where we planned to watch all 6 films back-to-back. In the end, we only ended up watching Episodes II, III, IV and V (III was still on at the cinema in St Andrews, which was nice, I enjoyed seeing it again, and we were the only people in the cinema!), but it was still good fun. In the evening, I planned to settle down and read Harry Potter, but in the end it was insisted that I go out, since it was my last night, so I did, and we did have quite good fun. Ann and Suzanne left early, but myself, Jaz, Ciara and Graham had quite a good (but tiring) night. 🙂 It was a nice way to finish my week at St. Andrews, anyway!

Sunday 17th July

Sunday morning, and I managed to get up at around 7.30am after my alarm went off. Packed everything, sorted out some food, said goodbye to Ann, and walked to the bus station. Got on the bus to Dundee at 8.30am, and that was me on my journey! On the bus to Perth, I finally got around to reading Harry Potter (I’d read the first 2 chapters the previous day, but not had time to go further), and I was engrossed in this for the rest of the day. I finally finished the book at 7.30pm, and was quite moved by it, I hadn’t expected that ending! Got onto the ferry to Sanday, and went home. And that was that. 🙂

Well, this ramble has taken a while to write and isn’t all that interesting, but that’s in a nutshell some of what I did this past week. I did have a lot of fun, so thank you to all of those people who were so nice and so on last week. I look forward to seeing you all again in September! 😀

60 days until university, woo! (and 21 days until exam results, the great moment of truth!)