Day 6

I woke up with a strange desire to book a plane ticket. Little did I know I would be doing just that a few hours later, after talking with my friends we all agreed that it would be Ireland for St. Pattys! I quickly got assurance from a few friends and we all booked tickets together, getting the last few seats on an 8am departure on the 17th from Ediburgh to Dublin... with a return flight at 630am on the 18th. Looks like that will be an all nighter! Luckily for us, no more then an hour later prices skyrocketed for plane tickets to Ireland! Almost doubling then, who knows what they are at now. A few more friends will book them in the near future, but it looks like we are going to have a pretty good group heading next door for some St Patrick adventures. There is a festival going on from the 12th to the 17th there, we will be catching the grand finale. Word is that the streets of Dublin are overflowing with people, I can't wait.

I am officially a Napier University student today. Matriculation went very smoothly, they did have a very funny way of bringing us through a line. We all sat in computer chairs about about 4 rows of computers, then slowly snaked our way up to the front at about 3 seats at a time. I felt like I was playing musical chairs. Unfortunately they couldn't have a more confusing class registration system, I am going to go to an advisor tomorrow morning hopefully... what's worse is that 1 of the 3 classes I was planning on taking is not offered during this trimester any longer. Time to improvise.

I wanted to get a phone and open a bank account today. I went to the bank only to find I needed to bring a proof of residence with me... so off to find a phone. Most phones are about 10 pounds, the pay as you go is called a "top up", you can do it in 10/15/20 pounds. 1 minute of phone call costs 20p, and 1 text costs 10p. So knowing how much I text, I wanted to find an unlimited texting plan. I actually found some company who for 15 pounds will give you 300 minutes and unlimited texting, its a month-to-month contract. This is a great deal, so I went for it - only to find out I needed a bank account to pay with! Oh what chain of events...

Now it is approaching night, a group of friends and I decided to go bowling. When we got to the alley it was a 40 minute wait, and it was 11 pounds for 2 games of bowling. Quite a rip-off if you ask me, so we debated it and also found that for 10 pounds its unlimited bowling on fridays... everyone agreed that that was in fact the best plan of action. Now off to the movies which was directly next door, unfortunately there wasn't much to choose from as almost everyone has seen all the movies that posed any value. We ended up with a group of 12 or so after some went home and went to Benny + Dave's. Played a few games of articulate and virtual telephone and had some good laughs, all around good times but a generally quiet night tonight. Tomorrow it looks as if we are going to the jazz club? I think that is what it is called, apparently they have a pretty good performer coming on at midnight. . . until then, cheers. ;)