Halloween, Football Socials and an Ikea Christmas

So this week has been fun. It was a bit difficult cause we didn't have Wednesday off, but we have today and tuesday off to make up for it. We had some fun practicals, like our live dog and cat heart practical, where we listened to the hearts of cats and dogs, and looked at some radiographs as well, and learned how to use an ECG. We also had a practical on some diagnostic testing, which realistically we don't need to ever do in practice, but it's the basis of all the "snap" tests we will use, so it's good to know how those work.

Then Friday was Halloween, and so I dressed up for class all day, which was fun. I was Hermione from Harry Potter, and got a few looks from people all day, but it was good fun, and I wish I could wear a robe like that to class all the time. No one else dressed up until later for our friend's party, but their costumes were pretty spectacular. Lydia was a cow, and Jessica was a unicorn.

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Jessica, Lydia and Me!
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So after the party, I went back to my flat. Jessica decided to stay at Lydia's for the night, which led to much hilarity the next morning when she had to walk back from Lydia's in her halloween costume (minus the horn and wig), because everyone honked at her, thinking it was a "walk of shame." Automatic Awesome for Jessica :-P

The next day, Saturday, was the football curry-night social with the boys team. I decided not to quit after all, because I like having the option of going to practice when I'm not exhausted, and now that the paper is done I figure it'll be less of a time issue. The football social was at King Balti, an Indian restaurant, and I got a delicious Lamb Balti Pasanda, which was something to do with almonds. Very yummy. The thing was BYOB, so the rest of the teams brought more alcohol than I have ever seen in my life. I stuck with water, and I have to say I felt bad for the rest of the people in the restaurant, cause our table had to be shushed several times, because 30-some-odd drunk kids in a restaurant makes for much loudness. But apparently that's the restaurant that all the sports teams have socials at, so the manager was used to it, and welcomed the business. He even came and said so, and was very good humoured about the whole thing.

After the social we went to Potterrow, which is sort of the student union. It's got a cafe, pub, bank, dance club, and lots of tables and cushy chairs. It's a very nice place, actually. We hung out downstairs in the pub area for awhile, then we went upstairs to the dance party. It was actually really fun. I got to dance with a guy on the boys team who knew how to swing dance, who I recognized from the ceilidh we had earlier in the year. It was quite fun! I sadly don't have pictures of the social, because I didn't have my camera with me, but I'm sure someone else took pictures that hopefully I'll be able to nick from the internet. We shall see!

Yesterday Jessica, Pookish and I went to Adele's house, out in Dumfermline, where she lives with her husband. We took the train over the Firth of Forth Rail Bridge, it was so pretty! The weather was gorgeous this weekend!

The Forth
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Adele lives in this adorable house with her husband, who is quite nice. We rented two movies and she cooked us dinner. It was fantastic. We also went exploring a bit, first to her mum's house, where her little brother demonstrated his bagpipes for us, and let us try it! It was SO hard! I couldn't even get the bag to inflate all the way, much less make any sort of note come out. Pookish got a few notes, and Jessica got a squeak or two. I was lightheaded after trying. Everyone always makes it look so easy when they play it, but it's actually really hard!

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Jessica & Me in Drumfermline (not sure how to spell that?)
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Pookish attemps the bagpipes. Jessica took a pic of me, so hopefully I'll get that pic from her soon.

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We explored a Loch near Adele's house, which was gorgeous!
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We stayed the night at Adele's, and then this morning went to IKEA, where we had breakfast and picked up a few things, like I got a spatula, a new light (since I accidentally knocked my other one over and broke it), a wok, and a bowl to replace one of mine that got broken. I also indulged in some cheap fairy lights (what they call christmas lights in the US), and strung them up as decoration in my room. I was tempted to get an IKEA Christmas tree, but since I'm not going to be here over Christmas, that'd be silly, so instead I got a string of stars and hung them over my bed.

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Fairy lights!
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That's about all that's been going on. We had today off, and tomorrow we've got off as well, so I think I'm going to try and spend the whole day studying. But I'm glad I took the last few days off because after stressing about that essay I just needed to take a break and not think about school for a bit. But tomorrow the studiousness begins again!

Ah, the life of a vet student!