Little bit of homesickness...

We're making it into out 4th week here in Britain and I'm definitely feeling a little homesick. It feels like a good portion of our group are coming off of the adrenaline high we had coming into the trip, and now we're getting tired-- some members of the group are sick, and we're moving into a different course without much of a break in between. I'm really looking forward to my fall break when mom will be joining me over here across the pond! Mom and I finally decided that we will be going over to Southern Ireland. We'll be flying into Cork and maybe explore some of the area where my great-great grand father's family is from.

Traveling with a group can be very tiresome, and takes a lot of patience (which I pray for frequently... I'm not the most patient person), BUT it does have it's perks because if you get tired of hanging out with one group of friends you can always get to know other members of the group better. I've been doing that in the past couple of days since we got back to Edinburgh. Just trying to get to know some of the other girls better, and it's proved to be very refreshing!

For those who have access to facebook (probably mostly my peers), I put up a photo album with some pictures from the last three weeks, so those are there for you to enjoy. For those of you who don't have a facebook account, let alone know what facebook is, do not fret! I will try and set up a photo album that will be easier for you to access online... but that probably won't be for a while.

I'm going to be seeing a lot of theatre and art work this week, so that should help cure my homesickness a bit. I already took a trip to the National Gallery of Scotland and saw some gorgeous impressionism works (their featured exhibit). Some of my favorites that I saw were Monet's 'Poplars on the Epte', Degas 'The Rehearsal', and Corot's 'Pastorale- Souvenir d'Italie'. There were many others that I like, but they would be too many to mention on my blog. As for theatre, I'm going to see Titus Andronicus tonight, I saw a show called 'Our Final Hour' this afternoon and that was very good. Clairen will be excited to know that I will be going to The Last Five Years tomorrow afternoon as well!!
Lots of love,
Giselle