Day in Dundee: Night of Pool

So as planned day before yesterday me and Martina walked down to the shopping centers. I had walked there with my friend from Mukilteo but it was good to go again when I was more rested.  There are three mall-like shopping places in the immediate area...only about ten or fifteen min down the road so it's not too bad of a walk at all.  Man I swear though when I get back I am gonna be in the shape of my life!  Everyone here walks everywhere.  And I'm on the fourth and top floor of my building and my building is at the top of the hill lol.  Shoot my thighs are already stronger!
The shopping places don't have parking lots.  At all. People don't really drive too much in the city...the bus is really expensive and not worth it.  And instead of getting your car towed you get a fatty ass ticket for like 200 pounds when you do park in lots you are not supposed to. The centers are called Overgate Centre, Marketgate Centre, and Wellgate Centre.  Each one is named after the original gates into the city and each one has different attractions!  Overgate is nestled around this BEAUTIFUL church...it's a church of Scotland and it's fantastic.  I'll add a picture as soon as I have one.  The buildings around here are made out of this really cool gray stone and are so old looking-its really cool.
There are a lot of places from home in the shopping centers like Gap, KFC, McDonalds, the Body Shop, the Bon Marche (I got a kick out of that one!), and Starbucks of course.  It's comforting to have places from home but it's weird cause things are so different! I went to McDonalds and got a Big Mac meal and it was way smaller...and you don't get free refills here ever! Even at restaurants-it's strange.
But anyway so me and Martina walked around and went into the clothing stores and looked around-I found a belt at Gap but I am kinda on a budget so I didn't buy anything else.  They have some cool stuff but their jeans are hid-e-ass lol like guys jeans are so so so ugly and the women's jeans have rhinestones and stuff. I saw them and was like that's weird thirteen year old teenagers wear  stuff like that at home haha.
After we walked around the shops we walked back home and relaxed a bit.  After a couple hours me and my roommates went out to one of the four bars in the student union building and played pool in the pool hall. It's crazy they have like 20 tables in one room and everyone comes and plays together!

I got some pictures with the locals-it was school girl theme night but I saw this girl that was all gothed out lol.  I was trying to take a picture incognito

but I couldn't so I went up to them and asked for a picture!

Then I got some pictures with my roommates!

The one with dark hair is Stefanie who is dating my roommate Ben and the lighter haired girl is Martina:) she is my roommate from Germany!
Then there is Hannah! She didn't wanna be photographed haha but I snapped one anyway...

It was weird we had these guys come up to us to give up flyers-every once in a while the school clubs will have fundraisers and theme nights and it's like 3 pounds to get in...this one was for NEDs and NERDS which is Non-Educated-Delinquents vs like college students.  I guess the NEDs are little town thugs that hang around and ask for overage people to buy them booze and cigarettes.  They are highschool dropouts and they are just kinda loser kids that act all gangster lol.  I guess Scotland is known in the UK for really bad underage drinking and teen pregnancy!

That was pretty funny.  I tried this beer called Tennents and it was REALLY good...it kinda reminded me of PBR back home but a little harsher.  It was 2 pounds a pint and shots of tequila were only a pound 30.  The pool bar had a jukebox and they played so much American music all night it was crazy!
Then we got some food from this concession place they had inside and it was pretty tasty-me and Ben and Stefanie started talking politics.  She loves watching West Wing and it was cool cause I got to talk about my side of politics lol.  I think they were fairly surprised to know that I am a Conservative.
Overall it was a really fun night!
Then yesterday I went and "matriculated"which just meant that I went and got my student card.
No big. Quite scary actually lol.

After that I just came back to my room and later I met Caitlin from Mukilteo for coffee. It was really good, they make coffee REALLY thick and I had that with mulligatawny soup and bread for only 1.99 pounds. It was awesome for the coffee instead of little creamer cups they brought me a cup of real cream it was so good.  After that I came back to my room and taught Stefanie how to play card games...just speed, go fish, and rummy.  It was fun lol and me and her and Ben set up an improvised beer pong table and played rum pong but only with one cup. We were just messing around not really playing.  The cups were really narrow so it was super hard.  He got it in first but I didn't drink it cause it was that nasty Morgan spiced rum shit. Yuck. Regular maybe but no spiced for me. And Bacardi is better anyway lol.

Last night I went to bed early at about nine cause I was really tired and now it's about 10am here. I woke up at about 630AM.  It's weird cause it doesn't get light out here until at least 830AM.
That's all for now! more soon:)  Miss you guys!