My life here in Edinburgh

"Keep it straight!"

2010-03-20T10:15:00.002+01:00

I went to Telford College yesterday to work in the kitchen, which is part of the module 'Hospitality Operations'. We hot-smoked trout, salmon, and chicken breast with wood shavings of an old whisky barrel. The flavour of the meat was amazing afterwards! Again all the kitchen staff (including me) got to eat as much food as we wanted for 1 Pound. My friend Carry had three (!) apple pastries :D haha We are little fatties ;)
In the evening the little Sam (bus stop Sam) came over with a CD of Congolese music - ABSOLUTELY love it! I am actually listening to it right now. So what did we do with that music? OF COURSE WE DANCED! It's impossible to keep a true African in a seat - when he hears a beat, he just has to get up,dance and sing :) We did that for an hour or an hour and a half, had a drink and then went to Edinburgh University (On our way we practiced my French...very handy ;) where Sam gave me a proper tour through the buildings. It was so impressive! The uni has a number of pubs and dancefloors inside! I think you can only find these things in Scotland :D haha! There were several events going on at the same time, including bands playing live and of course the Salsa night which we went to. It was 5 Pounds to get in and at first it was quite empty, so we went to one of the pubs inside uni to have a few drinks and watch boxing before we started dancing Salsa. By midnight the dancefloor was absolutely packed with people! It must have been around 35 to 40 couples dancing (at least) and while Sam danced with some other girls (apparently friends of his), I got the chance to dance with a few different guys as well, which was really good :) One of them told me to 'Keep it straight' (headline of this post) ;)
I got home around 3 and couldn't open my door (I don't think I was THAT drunk haha), so I rang the door bell, but of course no one is home during the weekend except for my flat mate Kamile, but she was at work. In the end it was all fine...After trying at least 10 times, the door opened. MAGIC!

Today I will have a flat viewing which I will go to with my friend and future flat mate Claudia. The flat looks promising. The only thing I don't like about it is that it has four bedrooms with five beds. We can't afford paying someone's rent who doesn't live there, but we will see. Maybe the landlord/landlady will be open for compromises.

Aaaanyway, I am going to have breakfast now.

Bisous,

Corinna

St. Patrick's Day!!!

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Aileen came over!!

2010-03-18T13:27:00.002+01:00

In February my German friend Aileen came over to Edinburgh to visit me. She celebrated her birthday here and we had such a good time. She stayed for about a week and although I had to work quite a bit, we still made the most of it. She got to meet my best friends and they took excellent care of her, giving her a city tour, while I was working.

It was great to catch up and she seems to be pretty happy with her 'new' life as a student!

Aaaanyway, here are the pictures! :D

2010-03-18T13:24:00.000+01:00

UPDATE :D

2010-03-18T13:00:00.002+01:00

Woohoo! Finally I am updating my blog!
Sooo many exciting things have happened since I last posted stuff on here! Dave moved to another flat, and I have viewings for a new flat myself together with my friends Claudia and Rebeca.
Dave and I had our one year anniversary and he surprised me with a little visit from Friday til Monday :) That was really sweet. We first went out for a meal in an really, really nice South-Indian Restaurant. The guys who work there are sooo sweet :) It made me miss Sri Lanka. I can't wait to take Dave to Sri Lanka!!! After, we went to the Cinema where we watched a documentary called 'The blood of the Rose'. It was very special because the director and producer Henry Singer from Boston was there in person to answer questions after the film had been shown.

Also, I made a new friend the day I went to the airport to meet Dave for my anniversary surprise visit. I was waiting for my bus when a guy came up behind me and said that he really likes my hair. So we ended up talking and I did something I have never done before: I asked this stranger for his number! I don't regret it at all. Various parties and salsa lessons followed the first meeting and now we are really good friends already. We both feel like we have known each other for a long time :) His name is Sam by the way, so now I have two Sams looking after me :D

Yesterday I had 4.5 hours of work and then Sam and I went to the West End of Princes Street where we picked up a bunch of cookbooks I got for free through freecycle! Then we went to a pub to get some dinner and after that we walked to H&M to buy clothes for the night out that was to follow.
I hurried to get home in time to meet the other Sam in time for the Salsa class that started at 7, but he had to finish writing an essay for uni. So instead I drank mulled wine and Prosecco from Germany, listened to music and then met the boys (the other Sam and Alex) at their place where we had a fucking firealarm and drank some more LOL
We met Claudia, Rebeca, some of their friends and Ritch at the Three Sisters. It is a pub with a dancefloor I suppose and it was soooo packed! There were hundreds of people and it was crazy busy. We stayed for a while and then Sam, Alex, Ritch and I went outside where we met the other Sam. All of us except for Ritch, who decided to go to the Carter's, went to a club and it was a lot of fun to dance with the boys :) Alex left after this one, but for the two Sams and me the night was still not over ;D We had a look at the Salsa bar 'El Bario' but it was pretty empty, so we walked to a little Mexican Pub with a small dancefloor and danced the night away until 3 am. Some dudes from Belfast kept trying to get me to dance with them but I had zerow interest :)
When the pub closed, we walked home. Sam had tried to talk me into going to a Casino afterwards but I wanted to talk to Dave on the phone properly to say good-night and stuff, so I just went home.
We talked aaaaaand realised again how much we missed each other aaand then I fell asleep at 5 am, woke up at 7:30 and got up at 10 or something. I am a bit too lazy to go out today, so I may just eat some leftovers I have in the freezer.

OH YES! One more VERY IMPORTANT thing has happened! My friend Madeleine is pregnant! She found out when she was in the 5th month Lol And I will be the godmother of the little Nick :) I'm sure it will be the cutest and most spoiled little boy in the world <3

Okay, that's it for the moment.

Hope that you are all well :) I am going to take a shower now!

Bisous!

Corinna :)

2009-12-25T12:06:00.000+01:00

Merry Christmas

2009-12-25T11:18:00.002+01:00

First of all I want to wish you all a Merry Christmas!
I arrived in Germany December 16. Getting here was a mission: My flight was at 6:45 am, so I thought I'd take bus number 35 to get to the airport. The first problem occurred when I realised that the last bus departs at 00:35 from the bus station just outside my flat. I took this one anyway. Surprisingly it cost 1.20 Pounds instead of 3.50 Pounds (a night bus usually costs 3.50 Pounds), but I didn't think anything would be wrong with that. After 20 minutes the bus driver turned around and asked me where I was going (I was the only one on the bus) and I looked at him really surprised and said 'I was hoping to go to the airport'. He started laughing and said that he didn't think so. Unfortunately the last 35 that goes to the airport had left at 11 pm. Damn! He explained to me how to get to the bus station of the right night bus. I found it alright...The walk was kinda scary though...Imagine walking through scummy streets in Scotland in the middle of the night! Now that I had paid 1.20 Pounds to get on the wrong bus, I didn't have enough money to get on the night bus anymore. So when the bus came, I explained my situation and I saw several people reaching into their pockets to give me some change :D But they didn't have to give me any, because the bus driver let me on for free :)
So then I got to the airport around 01:00 am and found a nice little bench to sleep on (I slept right next to a girl from Glasgow) until some dudes came to wake us up because they wanted to move the bench. They started talking to me and came over several times to find out where I come from and where I'm going...The Scots are sooo curious :) Then I watched some construction workers and decided to go through security around 4:45 am. I was actually quite awake considering I hadn't slept much the last 2 days! Why? Oh yeah!
I had been in London to see my boyfriend for a couple weeks before I went to Germany. It was soooooooooo nice! Dave and I had a great time and while he went job-hunting in Kingston, I got the chance to get to know his housemate David a bit more, who gave me a nice little introduction into the world of seafood :D (He cooked sea food one day).
Dave and I also went into central to see the massive christmas tree from Oslo :) We took some nice little pictures, had coffee and went home again :)
Our friend Jay also came over for a couple days. He is fun to hang out with and we all decided to Europe's biggest shopping mall, where Jay bought his girlfriend a really pretty necklace and some nice soap for Christmas :)
It was good to have seen the mall once in my life, but I don't feel like going back to it because it was just too big for me. On top of that, it contains all the mainstream shops that you can find anywhere....I like small unique shops more than the big chains, so the whole thing wasn't for me really.
One day Dave and I took a walk to Osterley Park in the late afternoon :) It was a really cold (but dry) day and we got to take some lovely pictures :)
Cooking for the boys has also been a great experience! One day I made coliflower-cheese and another day stuffed peppers :)
The two Davids also cooked some yummy stuff...We were little fatties every day :)

At the end of the two weeks I took my 9-hour bus journey of death again...I much prefer traveling during the day though (which I did to get to London), instead of traveling all night (like I did from London to Edinburgh this time). So whenever I go back to London to see Dave, I will make sure to book a seat for a ride during the day :)
When I arrived in Edinburgh around 8 am, I walked home and went to bed for a few hours. That was the same day I went to the airport to go to Germany! So now you know why I had basically not slept for 2 days LOL
When I arrived in Germany, my dad picked me up. We chatted all the way from Berlin to Neubrandenburg. On our way home, we also picked up my mum from work and then went home together. It was nice to see them, my brother, and pets again.
Two days later I went to Berlin with Made, one of my best friends, for a couple days. We went to a shopping centre in Ahrensfelde where we bought some make-up and pizza and where we had a cup of hot chocolate. Later that day we met our friends at the Alexanderplatz to have a mug of mulled wine, but since it was -16°C cold outside, we couldn't feel our feet anymore after 5 minutes and decided to just go to a pub instead where we ate dinner and had a drink :)
Made, her boyfriend and I went Made's boyfriend's place by TAXI.
The next day Made, her boyfriend and I drove back to Neubrandenburg.

Yesterday the Germans celebrated Christmas! Wooohooo! My mum, brother and I watched 'Drei Haselnüsse für Aschenbrödel' (a Germany-Czech film from the 1970s) and then had the traditional Christmas dinner: Potato salad with Wieners :D It was as delicious as always ;) We didn't really have much potato salad left though to be honest because we all had been snacking on it for a couple days before Christmas :P
After, we had some sparkling wine and then we opened the presents :) I got sooooooo much stuff!!! The first present I opened was a box from the United States. My host parents, who I had stayed with for 11 months in 2006/2007, sent it to Germany :) It contained a really, really nice hand-bag, pop tarts, yummy sweeties, a nice little candle for my family, and Ramen noodle soup :) Then I opened all my other presents (loads of yummy tea, a tea pot, a hand-bag from Turkey, clothes (clothes are always good!), a book with tips how to paint landscapes with oil paint, sweeties, NERDS (got that from Aileen's host sister Kimberley), ann LED lamp that changes colours which Shimmy gave to me (Her parents have one and I have always wanted to have one too :D ), a yummy strawberry-liquor and sweeties from Made, a Santa-hat from Jahn, and sweeties and the oil-paint-book from Ail :) and loads of other stuff I can't remember now :D ).
My friends and I exchanged presents at 9 pm next to a play-ground (that is our tradition..we always meet in the evening for a beer) where we also had sparkling wine.
After, my brother and I walked to Erik's place where Mephisto was busy playing games LOL
Later Jan came over and around 2 or 3 hours (and a few beers later) Jan, my brother Daniel and I walked home and I called Dave for half an hour or so :)

Today we will eat goose, Klöße, red cabbage and sauce for lunch :) It smells soooo amazing already!

I will tell you later if it was good or not O:-)

I wish you all a Merry Christmas!!!

Love and Kisses from Corinna

Getting everything sorted

2009-11-27T00:20:00.003+01:00

Yesterday I skipped my lecture for IHTE because it would have been pointless to go (Simon was the lecturer and I cannot understand him in the lectures - he is from Taiwan and still has quite a strong accent), so I downloaded what he was going to talk about in the lecture from WebCT and went over it myself a couple of days ago instead and printed it out.
At 2'o clock I had French 1. My teacher told me that I got 75 % on my oral! :) She said that my understanding is excellent and my speaking is very good (I only made a couple really tiny mistakes :) I asked her if it is possible to ever get 100% on a test and she said 'no' ("Even French people make mistakes. They wouldn't even get 100%). Pardon? French people wouldn't get 100% in an oral test in French 1? Okay. No Comment.
This weird system of giving marks must have something to do with the Language school. Alex told me yesterday that he got 95% on one of his assessments and that people at his campus can get 100%. Oh well...

At 6:30 I met Rebeca, Ana, Claudia and another girl at a little tea place in Bread St. They closed at 7, so we went to the Chanter's (The Napier student Pub) and I had half a Pint of Tennent's. Rebeca and Claudia went to the cinema at 7:50 and I left the pub around 9, then had dinner, talked to Dave, and then went to the Carter's with Alex and Sam, where a Bluegrass band was playing :)

We left quite late (Around 12:30 maybe?!) and then walked home.

Today was the Get-everything-sorted-day! First the dude came over who asks me every two weeks what is still broken in our flat. So I told him and when he ran out of space on his list, he said he'd come back with the accommodation officer in a bit.
Half an hour later, he was back with this horrible woman. I showed her everything...All the broken stuff and she was pretty annoyed/pissed off for whatever reason and didn't really care. Anyway, at least she handed her phone over to me so I could ring the company that fixes the washing-machines.
Thankfully she left, so I got to talk to the dude some more about our issues in the flat. Then he left for 5 minutes to -you won't be believe it- GET A NEW MICROWAVE for us! YAY! Same model - from TESCO'S - but this time it works ;)
Then he left and 3 minutes later a man rang the door bell...He came to fix the hot-water-issue and stayed for 3 hours Lol We have enough hot water for today and tomorrow now and tomorrow he'll come back with the right parts to replace some cables :) What a pity that I had already taken a horrible cold shower when he came -.- Anyway, it is sooooooooooooooooooooo nice to have warm water again :) I am almost afraid of using it now because I don't want to run out Lol
Then he left, and I had dinner...I used a lot of garlic on it, because I thought I wouldn't talk to anyone else after that...But then this woman appeared and asked if our hoover or washing-machine was broken...Okay...well, I told her that we had reported the washing-machine already...Then I said that the hoover doesn't work, so she tried it herself...And realized that it didn't really work properly...then she advised me to ask for help to empty the dust out...She didn't know how to do it either LOL
Then the guy for the washing-machine came..Unfortunately I had a load of clothes in it at that point...so he looked at the running washing-machine for half a second and then decided that "The washing machine is working". Nice repair work, Sir!

I've been working on assessments since he left (with a short break of talking to my parents on SKYPE). The tasks are the following: The motivation to travel to a particular festival event an be a result of 'push' and/or 'pull' factors. Explain this concept and then list a many 'push' factors a you cn think of that might motivate people to travel, using the example of the Edinbugh Festival or Hogmanay. (Indicative Word Count - 1,000)

I used the Hogmanay festival and it was really, really interesting doing all the research and that way learning more about Edinburgh itself :) I finished this one today and really enjoyed working on it :)

Section 2 is the following: Discuss the demand and supply of tourism for the country of your choice by using any technique to audit the external and internal business environment. Please ensure that you discuss and explain which ofthe factors provide opportunities for tourism and which can be seen as threats.

I chose to write about Sri Lanka and found an extremely helpful website that shows all kinds of tourism figures. This one is very interesting as well. I love learning more about Sri Lanka, as I can imagine working in the hospitality sector there some time in the future. I feel like a sponge when I read through the information on the internet :)

Anyway, I'll hand the two parts in on Sunday, although they are due December 14.

Okay, I'll work some more on part two now.

Sleep tight!
Hugs,

Coco :)

Dreadie Wraps :)

2009-11-25T00:04:00.000+01:00

65 %

2009-11-24T23:53:00.002+01:00

Today I had the tutorial for 'Introduction to Hospitality, Tourism, Events and Festivals' and I found out that I got 65 % on my assessment. I was a little disappointed because 65 % is not much, I thought. But then she told me that 60 % means 'very good' and 70 % 'excellent'. She said the highest percentage she had ever seen on an assessment is 78 % and she had only seen it once in her life. So what does it tell us? You can only get about 75 % out of 100 %, no matter how good you are. I find that very weird...Anyway, Sonja (another German girl) and I got the highest score in our group, so I can't really complain :)

Two of my class-mates gave me a ride home, so I saved Pound 1.20 :D Later this evening I went to the post-office to mail out a Christmas present for my host parents back in the States, and I also bought rubbish bags (We ran out a couple of days ago) and crayons :D

I emailed the Supreme Group today, which I work for and I got an email back with details for Saturday. I'll start at 11 am and the kick-off will be 14:30, which means that I will finish a lot earlier this time :)

For dinner I had soup that I had made. It contained parsnip, carrots, parsley and potatoe :) YUMMY!

Oh yeah, I tried to do an African head-wrap today and it turned out okay :) I'll post piccies in a minute.

That's all I did today...Nothing too exciting, but I enjoy having quiet days once in a while :)

Take care of yourself!

Hugs,

Coco

Murrayfield, Edinburgh

2009-11-24T01:29:00.000+01:00

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Life in Edinburgh has been really nice lately. Dave came over from London on Thursday evening, so I went to the airport to meet him there. After, we went home and relaxed all evening, watching a number of documentaries on Channel 4/oD.
On Friday, Sam, Alex, Ritch, Sam's brother (who came over from Sweden for a few days), Dave and I went to a pub in Forrest Road first, and then to a live music place, where an amazing band played that night. We had a few drinks right in front of the stage (we were lucky enough to get a table there =).
The following day I had to work from 1:30 - 8:00 pm. It was fun again, although I wasn't in the massive bar this time. Instead, I got assigned to a 'trailor-bar', called the 'Heineken-Bar', where I worked in a team of 8. I got on with the team, but the beer didn't seem to like me: Neither one of the three taps I was supposed to use worked, so I relied on the other people's taps the whole time, pouring beer wherever I could. At 7:00 pm the head of our team sent 5 of us home. I stayed until 8:00 pm though, helping to clean half of the bar and serving people after the match was over (Scotland beat Australia!!! WOHOOOO), while the 3 remaining people of my group ended up chatting to each other and security people. I got paid at 8:30 pm (35 Quid + tips!!! :) and then walked home with my Spanish/Italian friends :)
When I got home at 9 pm, Dave welcomed me with a big hug and a yummy dinner: He had fried steaks, cooked fresh vegetables and made mashed potatoes. I have the sweetest boyfried in the world :)
On Sunday Dave, Ritch, Alex, Sam, and I went to the Chanter's where we had dinner (I had a burger for Pounds 1.99) and then we decided to watch '28 weeks later' at Ritch's (which, honestly is a pretty shit film :P ).
Today Alex, the accomodation officer, came to our flat to do the termly visit. The main purpose of him coming over was to pick up a list of stuff that is broken here (no hot/warm water, no working washing-machine, a dodgy microwave that shuts itself off after 4.5 minutes, a broken plug for one of the radiators, a leaking toilet, one of the hobs that isn't working at all, and the grill that has not worked ever since we moved in...the list goes on and on...)....LOVELY. Alex was more than upset about the fact that nothing has been repaired yet.

A couple days ago I received my free pack of Yorkshire tea :D And today I got a free copy of the book 'Ten Years On: Britain without the EU' :) It's fun to order stuff that you get for free :D I got really into it xD

Oh yeah, I almost forgot to tell you that I changed my course from International Business Languages with Management to Bachelor (Hons) French with Hospitality! I'm really interested in Hospitality, so I went to Richard Bews and he helped me to change it. Today I had a proper look at my options for the timetable for trimester 2 and I am a little upset about it: I can't take any of the modules I really wanted to take because everything seems to clash with the hours French is taught...I'll sort it out some time this week, I guess...

Alright, I'm really tired now...I hope you'll all sleep tight =)

Hugs,

Coco

I will send you an email

2009-11-16T20:22:00.001+01:00

Today Tristan, Eli, Monika and I had our group presentation for Intercultural Organisational Management and I am soooo damn glad that we got it done in time. Eli and Tristan haven't been very cooperative the 10 weeks we had to prepare everything, so Monika and I had to do almost everything. Anyway, the presentation went alright and we'll get the mark next week (my teacher will send each one of us an email).

From one until half two, we worked on the group thingy and then I had to leave for half an hour to meet Isabelle, who I practise my French with. She told me that I have made a lot of progress and that she is really proud of me :) I thought that was really nice :) So I am not as worried anymore about the oral test I will have on Wednesday :) I'll probably study for a few hours today and then a bit more tomorrow...But I'm sure it will be fiiiiine :)

Oh yeah...There has not been any warm/hot water in my flat since yesterday. I hope it will get fixed in one week, when the accomodation officer comes over to inspect all the rooms.
Until then I'll shower in Alex' and Sam's flat, I guess :P

I am listening to 'Tabaluga und Lili' right now...Such a nice story and the songs bring back childhood-memories.

Okay, I think that's it for today :) I'll be a good girl now and study some for French.

Hugs and kisses,

Coco

Wow, going to uni on a Sunday is great!

2009-11-15T22:53:00.002+01:00

I went to my campus today to meet up with Monika. We ended up being on the same bus, but we only noticed when we got off the bus Lol

Anyway, we worked for a couple hours, then took the bus home together.
Not so exciting really, but I enjoy spending time with Monika. She is a good friend of mine now. If the group work has really sucked all the way until the end, I made a new friend...

When I came home, I had a few cups of tea, did some more research for the group presenetation tomorrow, and now I am lazy and really tired. I might go to bed soon and then study for French tomorrow before I meet up with Elli, Tristan and Monika to work some more on the group stuff.

Dave called me today and said that he has booked a flight to come to Edinburgh on Thursday! I'm soooo happy :) He'll stay until Monday evening.
Also, I booked a Megabus-seat to go to London November 30 :) I'll go back to Edinburgh December 14...And then I'll go to Germany December 16 :) I'm excited!

Alright, I'll watch a documentary now. Take care!

Hugs,

Coco

Piccies from last night

2009-11-14T23:24:00.000+01:00

Sorry

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P.s. Sorry about all the silly mistakes I made in my last post. I'm tiiired :)

"Would you like a carrier?"

2009-11-14T22:48:00.000+01:00

Today was my first day of work. I got up at 9 a.m. (Way to early for me, especially since I went to bed at 2 a.m. this morning), had a bowl of cereal and a cup of tea, then went to Sainsbury's on my way to work to buy a couple of bananas. I got to Haymarket Train Station at 10:40 and met Juan there. Then we waited for our other Spanish friends to show up...They eventually did - over half an hour late Lol So we had to walk REALLY fast to get to Murrayfield Stadium at 11:30. In the end, it was all fine... :)
When we got there, a guy gave us red wristband which indicates that we are a member of the staff. Then we walked straight through security and all the way down to the bar we had been assigned to and got busy straight away unpacking boxes of alcoholic drinks and preparing everything for the wild crowd to arrive. This whole process took almost 2 hours, until our supervisor said that the bar 'now is officially open'.
Serving customers was a lot of fun...Everybody was extremely nice and in the first hour, Claudia and I made an amazing team :) We get on really well and helped each other as much as we could. Occasionally our other friends came over to get a hug or just rest their heads on my shoulder :) What a lovely atmosphere!

The bar is split in two: There are the people who take orders, cash, and hand out the alcohol an pour the cider into plastic cups, and the people in the back who a) pour the beer, or b) are the cashiers. This is a really efficient way of working, I think.

Working in a team is a lot of fun! I love all the staff (except for my supervisor) and the security people, who stood 10 meters in front of the bar, made our job a lot easier by checking people's IDs before letting them through to the bar, so we wouldn't have to worry about underage drinking.

Around 2:30 most of the staff took a break. Only 3 of us managed the whole front of the bar for half an hour. When people came back from their breaks, the supervisor told us to see her at the truck where we had put our coates to get paid now. Each one of us got 21 Pounds for 3.5 hours of work, which is pretty good :) Hopefully we will get to work more hours next Saturday than today though!
So what did buy today after I got paid? It's easy: A lucky-numbers LOTTO ticket Lol I still want to become rich :P Or maybe it is just too much fun to play once a week...I don't know :D

Oh yeah, I haven't told you about yesterday yet! Sam, Alex and I went to the Carter's and I expected live music to be played there...But it turned out that the live music is today :P Oh well...We still had a really good time...Later that evening, Ritch came as well and he even bought me and Alex a Pint O:-) (Thank you Ritch! :)

That's all the news for today :)

Hope you will sleep tight!

Hugs,

Coco

A box, Spaghetti, and a washing-machine

2009-11-13T16:25:00.000+01:00

Today has been quite an exciting day already! I went to bed at 4:30 a.m. but couldn't sleep until about 5 'o clock. At 12 'o clock the door bell rang. I woke up and got up quickly. Before I opened the door, I put stuck a toothbrush in my mouth, so it wouldn't look like I had just gotten up :P In fact I think that this looked a lot more embarassing that I would have looked without the toothbrush in my mouth LOL (What was I thinking?).
So I opened the door and the man asked if I am Corinna, and I nodded. He then handed a biiiig box over to me and I was really excited :D This is the second big box I have reiceved from my parents this month...They always send me little goodies. This one was especially amazing because it contained FRESH, CLEAN towels and Müsli! YAY (And some other really, really good stuff :)
Okay, you might think it is weird to get so excited over getting towels, but I haven't been able to do any laundry in 2 weeks. Today I asked Ritch if I could do some washing in his flat and he said it wouldn't be a problem for me to do so. However, I just tried to drain the water in my own washing-machine and it worked! So I decided to sacrifice a Pound (two hours of washing cost 1 Pound) to give it another try. We'll see how it turns out :)

Sam invited me over for a yummy lunch today: It was Spaghetti Bolognese made from scratch. Alex, Sam and I really enjoyed it and after, Alex and I took care of the dishes, while Sam was munching on some of his sweeties Lol

Monika called me an hour ago to see if we can meet up at Craiglockhart Campus on Sunday to practice some more for our group presentation which is due next Monday.

Aaaanyway, I'll go to the Carter's, my favourite pub, tonight because there will be a guy playing live music :) I'm sure Sam and Ritch will go as well...Hopefully Alex will come too :)

Okay, I'll let you know later how the washing turned out and what the live music was like!

Hugs and kisses,

Coco

Job Interview/ Job Training

2009-11-12T22:17:00.000+01:00

Today I had a job intervieww/ job training at the Rugby stadion just off Roseburn St. After waiting 1.5 hours for the trainer to show up, we got it all done quickly. A guy from Glasgow read all the stuff to us we need to know (and don't really need to know), but we couldn't understand a word because of his thick accent. Aaaaanyway, I made soooo many new friends today :) I thought it would only be Claudia, Maria and me going to the interview, but it was 9 Spanish girls and boys and one Italian girl Lol We took the bus from Haymarket station at 5:45 p.m. and got to the stadion on time (which we all later started to regret). I'd say it was about 30 people in the room and all of us got the job :) I'll work for 6 hours every Saturday now and I think it will be good fun.
After the meeting, the Spanish and the Italian walked home with me. Their flats are close to mine.

Now I'm home and thinking about going to a pub tonight, but I can't really get hold of Alex and Sam. We'll see what happens :)

Good night everybody!

Love and Hugs,

Coco

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Welcome to my very first blog :)

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I hope you will enjoy the crazy and not-so-crazy things I will post to this blog the next 3.5 years :) I got the idea from Sam who has been updating his own blog almost daily and I think that it is a really cool idea.

Anyway, I have been living here in Edinburgh for about 10 weeks now (Wow, that's a long time already!) and I am enjoying to uni at Napier University, which is one of the largest ones here in Scotland with 15,000 students. My first three modules (Intercultural Organisational Management, Introduction to Hospitality, Tourism and Events, and French I) are pretty much over for this year. Only two more weeks of classes and I can go to London to see Dave, my boyfriend <3

Today I'll meet Claudia and Maria (two Spanish girls who are in my French class) at Haymarket Station to go to the Rugby Stadion just off Roseburn St. We are eager to get a job for the next three Saturdays (6 Pounds an hour isn't too bad, is it?). There will be a meeting of some sort, preparing us for selling beer to already drunken rugby-fans Lol

I hope to hear something from Nathalia tonight as well. I texted her last night, asking if I could use her washing-machine to do a load of clothes. Our washing-machine in this flat has been broken since we moved in and I have been washing my clothes at Alex' and Sam's place, but unfortunately theirs broke as well about a week ago. Every week a dude comes to our door, asking what is still broken in our flat...We have reported our washing-machine, microwave and grill about 10 times now!
If all the stuff wasn't broken, I could say that my flat is perfect: My flat mates are really nice...Three of them (Emma, Emma and Kimmy) are Scottish, Kamilla (Is that how you spell her name?) is from Lithuania, and then there is of course me, from Germany :) We keep the flat fairly tidy and really enjoy living here together.

I will post piccies of the flat in a little while.

Anyway, I gotta get ready for the meeting now!

Take care!

Coco