Friday, Jan 18
During the day I just work in the studio briefly and talked to my tutor about my project. Then I made my way back to my room. Okkie had mentioned all of our exchange friends might be getting together for dinner. That ended up getting cancelled but we decide we'd all just eat on our own and meet up at our friend Anna's flat. So around 8 we all met up there. We hung out for awhile with great conversation and a bit of cider and wine. Again I just had a pathetic half glass of pear cider. Haha, I don't think my friends could mind too much, it just means more for them! :) At first I thought the plan was to migrate to a pub but eventually the plan was that Adrienne's flatmates were going to show us around to a local club. Now, I don't think I own anything "club-worthy" per se but I was literally in a knit sweater and a scarf. But no one else was changing so I just rolled with it. I was so woefully unprepared. I brought my giant camera and had it shoved in my purse. We arrived at "Bamboo" and checked our coats. We got there around 11pm and it was dead, only a few other clusters of friends. My friends got some drinks and we found a place to settle. We tried to grab a table but they were "reserved", you had to pay to sit. Anna got a vodka lemonade and let me try it. It was pretty tasty and she treated me to one when she ordered herself another. By that point we had claimed our corner of the dance floor and more people had arrived. We were having a good time but unfortunately we were cornered between the bar, DJ and bathrooms so literally everyone and their mother was crossing through our little dancing circle. We suffered through it for awhile but eventually we got fed up and moved to the other room. Again we staked our claim by the DJ but this area was out of everyone's direct path. I was able to set my giant purse down in the corner by the DJ booth and actually enjoy myself (rather than worrying about knocking people with it!). It was a really nice time despite how unprepared for it I was. I used to love high school dances just for the opportunity to dress up and dance with my friends and this kind of filled that hole in my life. The floor of the club cracked me up. By the end of the night it collected just more and more splashes of different drinks. It was a good time but we had finally had enough and after a favorite song or two we made our way back to our respective homes. It was a good night.
Photo Cred: Rebecca Maddock
Photo Cred: Kennedy Dickerson
Photo Cred: Rebecca Maddock
Adrienne, Anna, Me, Rebecca, Kennedy, Lorna, Okkie & Adrienne's flatmate, Ruby
Photo Cred: Kennedy Dickerson
Sat, Jan 19
I had been invited by some of the people in my house to go to an art museum with them. So we set out early this morning for the Burrell Collection. We took the train from Glasgow Central. It was so beautiful and I was such a tourist taking pictures of a train station. The trains were so nice and clean and affordable. The US seriously needs to get on the ball with this public transit stuff….particularly Philly : /. Anyway the museum is just a short train ride out of the city. It is still considered a museum of Glasgow so it's free! :D The collection was owned by a Glaswegian shipping magnate named Sir William Burrell. He spend much of his live collecting great works of art with his large fortune and donated it to the city of Glasgow in 1944. The museum is situated in Pollock Country Park which is just beautiful walking through the woods until we reached the building itself. The collection is diverse having ancient works from Egypt, Rome and Greece as well as more contemporary works by the likes of Rodin, Degas and Cézanne. The collection's copy of Rodin's "Thinker" is significantly smaller than Philadelphia Museum of Art's. I was able to assure my friends that it really is as big as they thought, this was just a smaller copy :) It was great to go to an art museum with art students, most of them were armed with sketchbooks and I was able to wander around pretty leisurely and see the entire museum. I was supposed to leave early to go back to school to get a tour of the school's famous Mackintosh building but I just couldn't tear myself away. I think I'll just do that tour when my family comes to visit and they will have to be patient with me :) After we were done exploring the museum we had some lunch in the museum cafeteria. We took our time before finally deciding to head back and brave the cold outside. On our way back we got to see some Highland cattle. A very authentic thing to see in the Scottish countryside :) We made our way back to our house and we all went our separate ways. Cat had mentioned something about going to see Les Mis tonight so later I met her and Michael in the front hall and we went to the Glasgow Film Theatre just a few blocks away. It's this nice small little theater and it's actually where my FoCI lectures take place. It was bizarre when we got there and bought our tickets we had to choose which seats we wanted like going to a show. It got stranger when we went into the theater and it was the exact one I have FoCI in! I was definitely more excited to see the movie than my typical lectures there. I had actually seen Les Mis with my family before I left but it was so good I didn't mind seeing it again! It even made me cry again….even with a few tears it was a great end to a great day.
Sun, Jan 20
Nothing too exciting today other than church. This morning we focused on Jeremiah 10, the Living & True God, and the threat of idolatry. Idolatry is a lot more seductive and convincing because they're often good things but we just let them be our focus rather than God. Our God is not too great to care but he's too great to fail. He's made promises he cannot and will not break. The preacher mentioned a quote by C.S. Lewis, "Severe mercy, when they must turn to the One they rejected and who not share them with idols." Overall the sermon was a really good reminder.
In the evening the focus was 2 Corinthians 1:12-2:11. That passage is basically Paul defending his ministry and rebuking the actions of the Corinthians. The preacher pointed out that good Christian leaders may have to call out their congregation and defend their own reputations (not for their personal sake but for Christ's). It proves the true love they have for their church and their commitment to them, definitely an interesting thought.
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