Viva la Union!!

I'm going home on Saturday, so my final post, next week, will be from the comfort of my home in Sunny Florida.

This last weekend was great. On Saturday, I went to Ann Menzie's home and she helped me make haggis, tatties, and neeps for some of the people from the parliament: Martin, Dom, Doug, and Miles. The neeps were probably the best I'd ever had. We tried something new, and put some squash in with them, and they were absolutely delicious. The tatties were good, but the haggis was overcooked because it waited too long to be served in the oven. Of course, the company was great, and we were semi-watching the christmas classics from 77-07; I had never heard of about 90% of the people who were on the UK chart at Christmas time over the last 30 years!!!

Saturday, I went to St. Andrew's: it's a very nice place. There's 3 long roads which make up the majority of the town. My friend Jackie and I ate lunch at the clubhouse for the golfcourse which was originally used in the 1500's where sheep were pastured to keep the grass short, according to club lore. Saturday night, I went out with Tom, Brenden and Alex. They met up some of their friends, both from their building and from their home college. Before not-too-long, I had a lot of them interested in playing a wonderful card game called: The Name of the Game is Mao. Its a really fun game based on rules that only the dictator knows and not being allowed to talk. It is very amusing and very addictive. Saturday night was wonderful, before I knew it, it was close to 2 am and my tiredness was showing in my sloppy card-play.

Sunday's sunday school lesson was really good: the instructor pointed out that its important to actively apply what we learn in church towards our weekly lives, which is something I had not put together for some reason, so thats this week's resolution. Silvia again had me over to dinner and we had chicken curry with rice and greens. It was good; then we hung out for a while andwatched a bad episode of x-files.

Monday however, was awesome! David Cameron came and gave a speech about the importance of the union between Scotland, England and the rest of the UK. It was really good! After, he went around glad-handing, and I met him!! I made eye-contact, shook hands, then putting my hand on his shoulder, I told him how much I enjoyed him giving it to Gordon Brown every week. Then he asked where I was from, and then, hearing I was from Florida, replied, "how do you like the weather here" to which I responded I was eager to get home. Tom told me later he half expected me to introduce myself as the senior intern =) But I didn't even introduce myself. The whole thing took less than a minute; he's the first politician I've ever met. But I really hope that he can someday overthrow the regime.