Edinburgh

When I arrived back in Edinburgh I had a few interviews over the first 2 days. Thankfully I got a job! It's at a restaurant/ bar called "the slug & lettuce" it's a chain restraurant here in the UK. I'm hired on as a PR/sales on the week days and bartending on the weekends. 

A PR is someone who takes care of the public relations side of the business and deals with bookings, event nights, etc. I also run the Facebook and Twitter page.

I'm quite excited about this job because the staff is so nice there! And it's something different compared to my Tower job in London because this staff is 100% Scottish! They are all from here or somewhere in Scotland! However at the Tower there were itialins, romanians, Polish, etc. And not that it wasn't good to work with them, but it wasn't always great because they didn't speak English very good. However now I will get to work with people who are actually from this city! 

Working full time for awhile will be nice aswell, and I get to learn how to be a PR and will get to add that to my resume when I move home so that's a plus! 

I found a place to live yesterday! I moved in last night and it's a pretty good place! I have 3 roommates. 2 guys and a girl. The girls name is Astrid, she's 21 and a student here. She's from Romania originally but has been in the UK for 4 years now and speaks great English! Her boyfriend lives here too, he is from Spain but also speaks good English! And the last guy is from Poland, he's a student aswell. 

When I found out they were all different nationalities I was a little skeptic but only because I have come from living in hostels for 3 months where rarely people were speaking English. And they were constantly speaking their own language. Not that I had anything against it, but we are in an English speaking country and if your intending on living here respect it's language and at least attempt to learn it. You can't live in a country and not learn its language in my opinion. 

So I was so excited when I got here and realized that even though they are all other nationalities, none of them are from the same place so they can't speak their language to one another. So since they have been in Scotland they have had to speak English the entire time, resulting in them having great English. 

My room is massive, it's beyond words to be able to unpack my suitcase! I was living out of it for almost 3 months! I also have my own bed which isn't part of a bunk bed which is amazing! As well as a desk! Everything in my room is perfect.

We have a fair sized living room and dining room. The kitchen is so tiny, but it has everything you need. We have a mini fridge which with 4 of us living here there isn't a lot of room, but we have a huge freezer. And I don't mind grocery shopping a few times a week, instead of one big trip. 

Straight ahead is the washing machine. Weird I know, it's in the kitchen. They have that a lot here. And beside the washing machine to the left is the fridge. And the freezer is also in the picture ahead to the right, with the microwave ontop. 

Tiny little kitchen! Just look at the floor to fully grasp how small it is! The stove is to the right

Amsterdam day 5~ last day

Woke up this morning only, had 3 hours of sleep and from the amount of shots I did last night let's just say I wasn't feeling too hot... Taylor cosh was pretty hungover. 

We caught a train from Amsterdam to the city next to us to see the annual tulip flower parade they have every year. We got the times wrong so we only caught the last 45 minutes of it but still so happy we went because it was unreal!!!! Everything was made out of tulips and it was beyond cool to see! 

After the parade we realized we both had less than 3 hours of sleep, we were getting on a plane in less than 3 hours and neither of us wanted to move anymore. So we just went to the airport and sat until our plane left. 

We flew into Glasgow and I then caught a bus back to Edinburgh where I'm still job hunting and then looking for a place to live. 

(Keep in mind all these floats from the parade are made completely out of flowers! All the colours you see are flowers!) 

Amsterdam day 4

Woke up earlier today and again had waffles for breakfast. We got up a lot earlier today because we caught a train going from Amsterdam to Harlem. ( It's a smaller city outside of Amsterdam.) We rented bikes so we could get out of the city and see the tulip fields that they have. 

So happy we did this because it was 1 of my best days in Amsterdam! So much fun to just get out of the city and bike, and get to see these AMAZING tulip fields! There were hundreds! All different colours and different types of tulips aswell. 

After the biking and the tulip fields we caught the train back and went to the hostel to pack up because we were leaving early morning and tonight we were going out on a pub crawl so we had to have our bags ready to go. 

The pub crawl was so much fun!! I haven't ever had that much fun at a bar in my life! 5 bars and a night club at the end of the night! Got to meet a lot of people too which was great. It was me, Jadyn and we met a girl from Australia but she's studying in berlin right now. 3 girls from California, 3 guys from London, and a guy from the states as well. We all partied together all night! And when I mean all night I literally mean all night! The crawl started at 8 and me and Jadyn got back to the hostel at 4 am! So when the alarm went off at 7 I wasn't moving that quick to say the least! 

Dutch house on the countryside 

Tulip elephant 

Pub crawl