Viva Las Vixens

On Tuesday there was a Sports and Societies fair in Summerhall. I ended up signing up for the Pony Trekking Club, the Expedition Society, and last but not least, the Ladies Football Club (soccer for you Americans)!!!!








Fast forward to Wednesday afternoon, 2pm. I hustle over to Summerhall (late as usual) to meet the girls for practice only to learn that they had already walked over to the Meadows. So I had to go wander around the Meadows until I found them tucked away into a little corner. Turns out that a lot of girls are still out of town, and a few are also in the Rugby club (boo). We did a few introductory rounds of pass the ball, then had a relay race (twice) and my team lost (twice). To be fair, the grass was real slippery and I fell (once), but so did another girl.

After that, we played for football! Yellow shirts versus non-yellow shirts. My team won the first round, and I helped score two or three times. The second game was neck and neck , and we only lost because I was an inch shy of blocking the ball. Playing goalie was a lot of fun! My most epic almost-save involved me knocking a girl over short of the goal, but when she feel she some how tapped the ball into the goal with the bottom of her foot! It was such great fun. During the term we have practice twice weekly, once on the school's turf field with coaches, and once in the Meadows just for fun. I think our games are on Saturdays.

Later that night, we met back at Summerhall (I was not late!) and walked over to the captain's flat for some pre-partying before heading out to Lava/Ignite for a wild foam party. Words cannot describe how much fun we had. Let's just say that I wowed the Scottish girls with my Miami dancing, Pookish got hit on by this weird, short dude, and foam is an incredible thing to have at a club. We dance so much that my legs still hurt two days later!

Monday Nite Madness

Ok, so this is a little out of order, but I'm blogging as I remember. Monday was the first official day of Fresher's week, even though the vets unofficially began on Saturday.

Monday began with this awesome free lunch at Southsider's, the official vet watering hole. We all got a free bag o'goodies at our very first Southsider's/Dick Vet t-shirts! Lunch was a tastey combo of chips (aka french fries), curry, chili, and some pastry stuff with stuff in it. There was such a huge croud of fresher's there, that the GEPers were lost in the crowd. We eventually got tired of the noise and went on an eshopping spree across town.









Since Lindzie lives so close the the stores we did a lot of back and forth to drop things off before treking out to Princes Street to marvel at the glory that is the POUND STORE. Everything you need for only a pound! I got these really cool stripped knee socks, a thing of salad cream (the most amazing condiment in the world), this cute hanging basket thingy, and various other things.
On the way into the mall we passed by this candy stand what was so huge my pancreas fainted and I got contact diabetes. No lie. There are actually quite a few candy shops like that around town. I don't understand how there are not more obese people in this country.

After shopping, we all went back to our flats to chill. Pookish and I decided to go out running in the Meadows. I am so out of shape it's not even funny. It took us 45 minutes to cover 2.5 miles! I can only hope that our regular running sessions become more productive soon. After running we were hungry, so we walked around looking for a place to eat. Peckham's (great organic/weird food shop) has a diner downstairs with student specials, so we split a za. While walking out, we ran into Barbara and she invited us to go out with her and some other GEPers.

Since I was all sweaty and gross, I decided to take a shower before heading out to Southsider's. By the time we finally got there, it was so full of Fresher's that our group had abandoned it in favor of Adrian's flat. But when Pookish and I arrived it was so crowded in the common area that you could barely more, so we talked some people into going to Brass Monkey with us.

After a few rounds of drinks and a shot or two, we migrated over to some Vodka place that had a ton of flavoured vodkas and many many cocktail specials. Pookish bought a vodka pass and got a free pair of knickers/pant/panties for it. We met a lot of the "older" girls and a few guys. Our stay there was rather short lived because the group wanted to meet up with the Safari super Freshers at Dropkick Murphys Bar. Pookish and I didn't stay there too long because it was overly crowded. Somehow, the rest of the crowd had enough energy to keep partying until 3 or 4 in the morning. I think I'm going to need to work on my party stamina if I want to keep up with these young'uns.

Dinner at Lindzie's

Fresher's week is a crazy week where the older students take the fresher's out on wild and crazy adventures. Tuesday was Safari night, but since we didn't have any safari attire and were not too sure about the "feed and water part" since vet students are well known for their drinking habits, we decided to have our own safari night, or "Farm Night". The idea came to use while sharing a few 'zas close to Lindzie's place. So after lunch we all trekked down to Lidyl's, and el-cheapo food place, to buy supplies for the evening. Dinner for five was about 12 pounds, and wine for five was a bit more. We all split up to shower and recover from all the walking and then headed over to Lindzie's at 7ish.


The evening began with some fine wine, lots of ComedyCentral podcasts, and Pookish attempting to burn down the place with really hot olive oil. Bout an hour later, dinner was served! Pasta, some nice sauce, veg, and shredded pork. Ha--mazing!













After we finished eating, we watched Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail. That movie never gets old, and get funnier with each viewing, mostly because you can quote more and more of it. Afterwards, we had some good old-fashioned shinanigans involving a cube, the other Alan/Poon/Canadia "killing" everyone, and Pookish trying to hide under the bed.












It was such a great evening and I hope that we have many more in the near future.