University of Edinburgh Go Abroad

Well today marks the two-week anniversary of my arrival in beautiful BA- and how the time flies by! It feels as though the days are rolling away from me, I barely get chance to take in how amazing something is before it whooshes by.

So last weekend marked my 21^st birthday- not such a big deal in the UK, although my American friends here assured me that the only acceptable way to celebrate it was to get so drunk I didn’t remember it. (Don’t worry family; I didn’t act on their wayward advice…!) It was strange to be away from home for a birthday for the first time, and as I watched my father gleefully open all my cards and presents for me on Skype I felt a little pang of homesickness. That morning, I also received a mysterious phone call from an Argentinian woman, who informed me that…