Life of a Dick Vet

I've been in Edinburgh for all of 3 and a half weeks, but it feels as if I've been here ages. I spent the first week having a great time touring the city with my parents and meeting the other students in my program. The second week I started classes and it has been non-stop school and socializing since! It's lecture after lecture of anatomy with a few breaks for animal husbandry and veterinary public health. We did get to go out to Easter Bush and Langhill for our equine and milk practicals. It was so much fun! Who knew that getting pooped and peed on by a cow would be so cool?

We do make sure to get in lots of socializing time as well. The group that lives in Pollock Halls pretty much see each other all day long. We make plans to meet up for breakfast and dinner just so that we can pull together the tables and take up the entire width of the cafeteria. I think that we amuse the workers when we do that. They already recognize us when we walk in. One of the older lady even makes sure that my food doesn't have milk or cheese in it, since it tends to make me sick.
Speaking of food, Scottish food is great as long as you eat outside of the Halls. There is this little green sandwich shop at the corner of the school that makes the BEST baguette sandwiches ever. There is also this bakery called Greggs that makes good wraps and has tasty rolls and such. There is even an Elephants and Bagels close to school. For those of you that don't know, that is the sister deli to the one where J K Rowling wrote her Harry Potter books. They have great hummous.

This weekend I think I'm going to do a lot of studying with a short break to climb up Arthur's Seat on Sunday to watch the fireworks show in celebration of the end of the Festival. I'm actually happy that it's going to be over since that means all the weird people will be leaving town and things will quiet down. Well, for about two weeks until the uni semester starts and the city is flooded with students.

ps. even though anatomy is probably the worst subject ever, we try to make up for it by being as silly as possible during lab. = )