Edinburgh

Hello from Edinburgh, Scotland! It is really hot here today. The sun is beating down harshly and it is quite unusual for this area. I figured that being that we were much more north it would be cooler, but oh well. Today we climbed up extinct volcanic structures and were studying them. The father of geology, James Hutton studied this volcanic structure in Hollyrood park and used it to come up with some of the basic principles of geology. From the top, there were cool views of Edinburgh... you could see the whole city from that one spot. It was pretty awesome. Tomorrow, we are supposed to be going around the city looking at buildings and structures and after that we will have our free day. I am going with my friends to see the Scotch Museum where they give you a sample at the end of the tour, Edinburgh castle and then at the night, we will be exploring the underground of edinburgh. Supposedly, the city started down in this underground area and then they decided to build on top of it... i can explain more about it later.. Well all is well.. I am ready to come home now.. All of this activity and constantly moving is starting to wear on me and it will be good to return to my normal setting and reestablish that since of normalcy.. I will be back on the states on monday, so this will probably be my last update. Have a great morning yall! (It is 3 pm right now, 9 am Texas time..)

 

Dustin

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Hello from Cork

We are now in Cork Ireland. We arrived last night from Plymouth. Today we went out to Ballycotton Bay to study costal erosion. It was pretty interesting. Tomorrow we will be doing a study of the city of Cork itself, monday will be a free day and Tuesday, we will be heading to Galway, Ireland. In Ireland, the people are really friendly. In plymouth, we encountered many people who would not really acknowledge you when you were walking down the road way and say hello. It is quite interesting. Everybody in the group is getting along quite nicely. We are all accomodating to each other and in some aspects are really acting like a family by looking out for each other and such. I must say that is it really weird for me to be wearing a sweater and jeans on a sunny day in July. We are at 51 degrees North latitude, so i guess that it is to be expected, but all of yall in texas are sweating like crazy. Our accomodations are student dorms. The ones in plymouth were pretty small, but the ones that we have currently are really big. It is like an apartment with 5 bedrooms and a shared commons area with a living room and kitchen and 3 different bathrooms. It is quite spacious. I will have pictures to share with everybody when I return. The country side is so beautiful. There is so much greenspace it just amazes me. Also there are alot of cattle and sheep. The cattle are so different here; they are really lazy. THey lay down alot. In the states, i rarely see cows laying down (however, this may be because i dont go looking at cows all of the time). Also they spray paint their sheep over here. It is used as an identifyer so each owner can know whose sheep is whose... Well I am going to run for now.. Sorry for all of the random topics, it is just how my train of though has been working here lately :) I hope that this message finds all of you well....

 

Cheers!

Dustin

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Do you bleed GREEN?!?!?!?!?!?!

Hello

Hello all! What is going on? It is day 3 on this trip.. we are all getting along great and having a great time. we are currently in plymouth. today we did a project that took us around the city going all over the place looking at differences between now and the 1950's. excuse spelling and other errors, i have only 15 min total.. lady at the public library not very nice... the weather is great.. it has only been around the middle 70's for the highs and lower 60's at night. i keep my window in my room at the dorm open all day to keep cool air in. they have no air conditioning in the halls or anywhere else for that matter. it has been interesing using the british pound and it has not been very nice to my wallet. but it is all fun. i have taken about 60 pictures so far and am excited to share. the lady at the library is yelling at us, so i have to go.. Cheers!

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Do you bleed GREEN?!?!?!?!?!?!