Highlands day trip

Woke up early this morning to go out on a highlands day trip. It's a beautiful sunny morning which is great considering it has been raining non stop lately. I left for where our tour was meeting up and away we went. 

We left Edinburgh heading for the highlands, and Loch Ness. Along the way we passed stirling and out the window I could see the stirling castle, and the William Wallace monument. We then came to the town of callander where me dad and mom had gone through on our trip. We stopped for coffees and then we were back on the road. 

Driving through the Scotland highlands was beyond beautiful! Such an amazig experience and I can cross that off my bucket list! We stopped every once and awhile to grab photos, and walk around on some of the paths. Our long stop wasn't until we got to Loch Ness. 

The town of fort Augustus is right beside Loch Ness so I roamed through the town, and along the loch for my time. Got plenty of pictures which is why I'm going to post the ones from fort Augustus in my next post, because I want to get all the highlands pictures in this one. 

Our tour guide name was linda, she was very nice and a very good guide for the day. She made a rule that whoever is last on the bus has to sing a chorus from a song. So right then and there I told myself to NEVER be the last one on. Yet sure enough at the second stop I got caught up taking pictures and realized I had been there a long time so I rush back to the bus and everyone is already on and laughing because they know it's my turn. Yay... 

I sang "green is the color" (rider song)  because in that moment I literally couldn't think of any other song in the entire world. 

The trip was such a great experience for me and I'm very happy I decided to go on it! 100% money well spent! On the way back we stopped on the side of the road to take pictures of the highland cows. Even though I have plenty of cows back home, these ones have much much more hair on there face and head. They just look a lot different from the ones back home. 

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