jumping over puddles...

well, it's yet another gloomy, drizzly day in glasgow. i'm beginning to wonder when summer will actually start to feel like SUMMER! everything has been slowing down considerably since school started again for the masters' students. i have spent a lot of time watching their rehearsals, which is really actually quite interesting. it's neat getting to see all the little tweaks they make day after day, seeing how the piece evolves and comes together with script, music and choreography, and how the whole cast can discuss details and make decisions with the director. i have a hard time holding my tongue on ideas..as i am an audience member, i feel like i could make some suggestions when they are having trouble making a decision... but i feel like that would just be extremely pretentious of me to think that i actually might even know what i'm talking about! watching them all, though, really kind of makes me want to become a playwright..
other than going to the school to watch rehearsals, i've basically been spending my time journaling, putzing around at home, and tagging along to whatever the others are doing. i finally got some keys cut so i can go out and explore on my own but.. with this nearly constant wind and dreariness, i don't have much desire to go out.
i found out yesterday that i won't be able to do any volunteer work for when we go to edinburgh for the fringe festival. dani had talked to suzy and the human resource centre before i had arrived to make sure i would be able to help out, and they had said that i definitely could. but now they are saying that since i don't have a work or student visa, i can't do a single thing; i can't hand out programs, work front of house..i bet i won't even be able to hold open a door for someone without being glared at. so that's really disappointing.. if i had been allowed to work (which is so backwards that i can't even volunteer), i would have probably been able to get a deal on my travel to and from edinburgh. but now it'll be out of pocket. plus, i would have been able to work with the students and be a part of their goings on. now.. i'll just be another tag along :c

yesterday was a good day for firsts. i went to a mall that's near the school to shop for a new bag - this packpack is really not easy to access - and, lo and behold, i got proposed to! haha. i had walked past this booth two guys had set up and they stopped me to ask if i had ever played paintball. one of them asked where i was from and i told him the story that i've had to repeat over and over about how i'm here for the summer to visit my sister who's going to school. then he randomly said "so..will you marry me?" and i looked at him funny and said "on what grounds..?" he told me i had a very pleasant aura, or some other adjective that i can't remember. i said that that was a good answer, and that i'd put it on my list of things to do. and that was that! haha..oh the people i meet..
another first was that i was finally taken to a scottish pub, and i had my first scottish whiskey!! it was a whiskey and coke, but the whiskey was much less disgusting than the crown royal i usually have at home. it was lighter and less obnoxious. and while we were there, i also tried haggis!!! andrew had ordered some, and he said it had too many spices on it to taste like "real" haggis, but i tried it all the same! honestly, it isn't nearly as bad as people make it out to be, or as i had expected anyway. and thank goodness he told me what it was..i had always thought - from hearing through the grapevine- that haggis was like.. brains or something. but really, it's just lamb and goat meat with oats mixed in. it USED to be cooked in a sheep stomach, but that was in the 'olden days', so it's much less gross than it sounds. it wasn't horrible, but not absolutely amazing either. like the whiskey, it had a lighter taste to it than regular meats i've had.

i'm going to end this post now so that i don't lose it, but the next one will be about our trip to st. helens, england, and my exciting television debut!!