saatchi, bfi, and scotland

Well a lot has happened since I posted last. Tuesday during our outing for my Media and Society class we got to go to the Saatchi and Saatchi gallery, which was all modern art. Now, with modern art I feel like it can go one way or the other--either its an amazing piece of work OR it just something where they put a molding apple in a glass case and call it "art." For the amazing pieces: there was this life size orgami made out of a tarp and it was a man playing a piano, there was also these really cool pictures that were made out of random pieces of paper used to make a bigger picture. For the crap pieces: a piece of plastic with brown tape. that is not an exaggeration. so there were some pros and cons. Tuesday night I went to the BFI with my other class and we got to see a film about the war in Spain. It was different but the BFI is very cool because it gives you a chance to see all these films that you normally wouldn't see. So we left for Scotland friday morning and the train ride was about 4 hours long. It wasn't too bad until there was a hen party (a bachorlette party) that got on the train. They were all very drunk and very loud. But it was all in good fun. Once we arrived we did a bus tour of the city but unfortunately i was unable to sit up top so it was not as succesful as it could have been. However, the city is really cool. Everything is so old looking that it was such a different spirit of the city compared to london. For dinner we went to a Tex Mex restuarant...i know what you are thinking, why would you go to Tex Mex in Scotland. WELL scotland is not known for their food and i was not trying any bangers and nash, so fajitas were the best decision i have made in my life thus far. But last night we found a pub that stayed open late and kinda parked ourselves there all night. The drinks were cheap and the company was good so it was a pretty good time. This morning we woke up to breakfast around 8 and then headed to the Edinburgh castle which was amazing. After the castle tour we were able to walk around and i got some souveniers. Then there was a tour of the Scottish Paraliament which was not going to lie-painful. The building is not very pretty and it was an hour tour talking about the archeiture of the building. After the tour i came back and slept because i was really sleepy. Then after we woke up we had an amazing italian food...once again not scotish but oh well! tomorrow we are leaving around 3 pm to arrive in england around 8. Well I hope you all are doing well! I miss you!

Until next time,
Caitlin