Gah more awesome complications!

I am not liking Stirling's Enrolment services! Apparently many of the history course codes have been changed this semester... so when I looked up the course code for that Wallace to Bruce (the one I praised in the last blog) on the Politics and History website... apparently it is incorrect! Today I discovered that course code has now been changed to Stewart Kings of Scotland... which was my first choice for a history course at Stirling. I feel like I am loosing my mind. Anyways, enrolment services was able to secure me a place in the Stewart class because apparently no one wants to take it in Scotland!  I am elated because it will really compliment the previous courses I have taken and will take at UVIC which are taught with a more British focus.
I will just have to learn about Wallace and Bruce on my own time :)

The complications of studying abroad :S

So I haven’t left the country yet and I am already getting the impression that studying in a foreign country is a lot more complicated than remaining at a home institution. In this blog I have laid down my dramatic, probably uncommon, event which transpired over the weekend of late:


I got an e-mail on Friday from Stirling’s International Office which informed me that the courses I had originally wanted to be enrolled in had been mixed up. It turned out I had been registered for British Literature courses and ZERO history courses (for those who do not know what I do at school... I am majoring in History and GRS, not literature!!). I basically freaked out and got all worried because all of the history courses I had wanted were fully subscribed by now L I was also sort of upset because one of my initial thoughts had been: "Oh GOD I am going to come back to UVIC and want to change my major to English!"
Alas, this morning I got an e-mail informing me that they were going to fix it... and then I got even better news that a course about the Scottish War of Independence was being offered this fall and that they were going to try and enrol me in that course. So I am keeping my fingers crossed because who doesn’t want to learn about William Wallace and Robert the Bruce in Stirling (BRAVE HEART)!!???
If it turns out I can’t be enrolled in that course, I am still excited because I am taking a literature course called “Victorian Literature and Culture,” and one of the books featured on the syllabus is written by my favourite author Thomas Hardy J
Then for history I am taking “Kingship and Nationhood: Scotland from 1100-1500 C.E.”
PRETTY FREAKING STOKED about the archaeology sites I am going to be volunteering at too J
 I got another e-mail this morning from the site manager who is associated with Stirling Archaeology Council... it turns out I might be working at a 15-16 Century Abbey Craig J
SOOO freaking pumped J

6 more days till the U.K. :)

I have decided to start a travel blog for the purpose of keeping friends and family updated on my journey to Stirling, Scotland. For four months I will be studying Scottish History and English Literature at the University of Stirling. I will also be volunteering at an archaeological excavation located at the Wallace Monument :) The dig involves the Medieval fortress in which the Wallace Monument was built on and I will also be working at a 15-16 Century Abbey Craig dig :). Anyways... this is my first trip away from home so long... and I will be alone!!! :S In this blog I will try and encapsulate and account all of my attempts of cooking, organization, and nightly drinking excursions.Wish me luck  :)