Cheese, but not the kind you think

Let's see, this weekend wasn't all that exciting. Our friend Graeme showed us around the Cowgate area of Edinburgh on Friday night, showing us some of the cool pubs. It was fun. Many of our friends went to Sweden that weekend, so it was just me and Becca with Graeme. Saturday I started work on my first essay. As of right now, I have two and a half of the three done. But even the ones I have done I'm quite nervous about. Luckily I have an amazing English major boyfriend who is nice enough to help me on them =]  Saturday night we went to The Big Cheese, which is something they have every Saturday night (I believe) at one of the Student Centres, where they play lots of "cheese" music, which is just 70s, 80s and 90s. Some Spice Girls, some disco, Britney Spears and the like. It was really fun, actually. I went with a bunch of IFSA kids and my friend from high school, Julia.

Monday was Valentine's Day, so me and AJ had dinner together via Skype. It was really nice. I wanted to have a burrito from this place I found last week (their burritos have salsa but are not spicy, and I love it), but it was closed when I got there. A lot of places here close around 5. It's sort of annoying. But the cafe where Julia works was open, so that was good. After our date, I went and hung out with some friends and ate chocolate. Yum. It's been a chocolatey week. Last night was Chocolate Society, of course. It was just me and Julia that went, and this week's meeting involved building a structure out of chocolate! I wish I had brought my camera, we made a bridge. With little gummy bears for the people. It was really cute. And yummy. But it was so much candy, we didn't finish it all. We also didn't win the competition =[  

So last night I got really excited because I found out that The Decemberists concert on March 5th in Glasgow (only 50 min away by train) wasn't sold out. I was all set to go, and actually bought a ticket, but then I realized that's the same weekend as the IFSA Argyle Forest trip. That's the trip where we get to go caving and canoeing and go on a night hike. And we've already paid for it in our study abroad fee. So I luckily was able to get a refund for the ticket, even though I had to walk up to Princes Street, find out that I could just call a number, and then walk back home. In the rain. But at least Becca was nice enough to come with me. And we stopped at this amazing place on the way home, called Piemaker. They have mostly meat pies. I had a Lasagna one. It was only 95p (about $1.70). And it was delicious. I can't wait to go again.