This weekend we went to Edinburgh (ed in burr ah) really amazing place!!! The area was absolutely beautiful you could look to your left and see the cliffs and turn to your right and see the ocean. The most interesting thing I found about the Scottish was their camaraderie with anyone. In London if you are on the same train or going the same way I can spark up a conversation with people but it is obvious that they are not accustomed to that sort of behavior. It is really easy to glide through my time here in London and not make any friends and it takes a lot of courage to introduce myself and try and establish a report with someone. However, in Scotland you just have to be breathing before a complete stranger will introduce themselves and start talking about anything.

The first people we met were on the train headed there, they knew we all were Americans and they had been playing a trivia game and a question about one of the states came up so they stood up and hollered out to the entire train and asked all of us what we thought. The second person we met was at a book store. When I went in to buy the book it started raining heavily, the owner of the book store said I couldn’t possibly leave with the weather as it was so he just stood there and asked me questions about the US for about an hour. Until the weather cleared and I was able to excuse myself, he happily would have kept talking for a long while.

It is really interesting the difference in social behavior over such a short distance!!

Angela