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Hi, guys! :)

Today was quite quiet (muahaha!). Nils's parents went back to France after spending a couple of days with us, and today we went to the Byres Road (the main road of the West End, which is the western part of Glasgow and has the University of Glasgow and our flat as well) so I could have my picture taken for the Freshers' Pass (and possibly for the student ID as well, but I haven't heard a lot about registration so far).

And then we went grocery shopping at TEEESSSSCOOO's (it's much smaller than the one in Slough, though, and you need to put one pound coins into the trolleys to be able to use them, just like in France :o)), and I used a shopping list application on my ipod for the first time (interesting, huh? :p)

Now, I suppose you'll be more interested in hearing about tonight's CEILIDH (pronounced 'ka-ee-leed, at least in the lovely Scottish accent) than about my exciting trip to Tesco's or my iPod's personal life ^_^

So, tonight was the welcome CEILIDH. It was organised by one of the 2 unions of the University of Glasgow (the Queen Margaret Union, which used to be only for women, which is why there are 2 of them). A ceilidh is a traditional Scottish ball, with couple and group dances. It's REAL fun and there's a lot of jumping and turning around, and after only 2 dances in a row I thought my heart was gonna explode! What's great with this type of dances is also that you don't need to know any one to join in and enjoy it :). Plus, the three musicians (a drummer, a bassist and an accordionist) and the QMU volunteers were being very helpful and showed us how to do the dances. Quite a few of the male volunteers were even wearing kilts! (the traditional 'skirt' for men) You can catch a glimpse of one coming from the left on the following video towards the end:

As you can (or rather cannot) see, the ceilidh took place in the QMU's very own 'night club' ^_^

Tomorrow [well, this morning, now, due to technical issues uploading the video :D] will be the start of Freshers' week, and I'll update you a bit later about that. There will be plenty of events organised by the 4 student organisations and also registration for my master's course on Wednesday.

Write to you soon :)

xx

XL