First Post

Good evening, internet. I'd like to welcome all three spyware programs and the one teenage girl who found this site via the "new blog" list on the blogger homepage. Hi, ya'll.

These are the researches of A Southern Girl of Private Northern University, in which she will blog, in the hope of thereby preserving from her technology-challenged mother, the remembrance of what came to pass when she spent four months studying in Scotland, and of the great and wonderful pub quizzes of St. Andrews and Edinburgh; and withal to put on record what things she saw.

I do beg your pardon if, as above, I occasionally twist my writing into an elaborate, unfunny allusion that only I and my academic adviser might get. Part of the reason I chose to go to Scotland, aside from the fact that they all speak English (sort of), is that I love history and I am a geek - I continually find ways to connect and reference the things I love with things that really have no relation to them, like an introductory post on a travel blog.

See?

So, the traveling. Right now I am still waiting for very important things, like my phone, to arrive, and watching a lot of The West Wing and Scrubs. I'm not sure if getting packed and trying to stay centered is easier or harder because I have no idea what to expect, other than that this experience is going to change me. With college I had a ton of expectations, and I'd seen the place before I'd said yes, but I've never been out of the country and I have no concrete plans other than to honor a promise I made to my cousin to search for the Loch Ness Monster.

Five days until I fly. I'll keep ya'll posted.