Hi guys! I know I promised to blog my trip to Edinburgh a month ago, but my laptop died and I couldn't revive it so I paid around 130GBP to get it fixed :( Ugh warranty, why must you expire. And not only that! I lost everything in my laptop. All my photos, music, useful links ALL GONE. Sigh. I let my hard drive go on over drive and that's what caused the whole laptop meltdown.
ANYWAYS! I went to Edinburgh for the vet school open day on the 29th of January. I decided hey, since I flew to Glasgow, I'm gonna try taking the coach to Edinburgh! bad move. Since I bought my ticket early, I got it quite cheap, so I booked the "luxury" sleeping coach. I really should have taken my friend's advice when he said "it's not as big as it looks". I thought it couldn't be THAT bad, plus I'm like 25% smaller the average human being so how bad can it be.
so wrong. There was no place for me to sit up straight, all I could do was lie down. But I didn't wanna lie down, I wanted to read but I couldn't cause the ceiling was too low. I swear, I heard so many groans and complaints from the other passengers as well. That look of disbelief when they saw the coach for the first time. It really felt like one hell of a ride, literally. But I was too tired to care and I barely slept so I stayed up listening to music with a sore neck and back.
Anyways! Reached Edinburgh at 7am and since I was too cheap to book a hotel and stay a night, I decided to take the night coaches to and fro so I save on a hotel :3 So I had to wash up in the bus station's toilet :/ But to be fair! It was really clean and there was no one there because it was so early in the morning so it wasn't too embarrassing :/
I kinda felt like a hobo though :/ But oh well! Must save money!
Edinburgh's train station
Everything felt so surreal, and it really felt like I was walking in a painting. Edinburgh was so so amazing. At that point I was going, uh-oh, how do I tell my parents I love Edinburgh more than Glasgow. Mehh, maybe the vet school wouldn't be so great, and I'd end up choosing Glasgow instead.
Oh how wrong I was. (you'll see why later)
Reached the main campus like an hour and a half early, so decided to seek refuge in Starbucks and do a little surfing to kill time
I was actually looking for a Nero (because they have the best hot chocolate ever), but it was kinda far off and I got a bit cold. And unlike London, there aren't coffee shops popping up all over the place :/ But considering Edinburgh was so lovely, I can live with that :3
So at 10am, I made my way to the main campus and met up with a couple of the other Vet school applicants. There was a minor glitch in the planning and the bus to the vet campus left without us ._. So we had some time to introduce ourselves and make friends! I was super happy though, since I can't remember the last time I was actually friendly to strangers or actually made real friends, but these bunch of people were so nice, they made me feel so comfortable with their presence :)
Most of the people there I've met in either my RVC interview or my Glasgow interview, so we hit it off pretty well and started chatting up our experiences with interviews and work experiences etc. Part of me felt it was cause we were all here on an Open Day and all of us have received offers from Edinburgh, so that made everyone much more relaxed and less tense :P
So the bus arrived and we took a 30 minute bus ride out of Edinburgh city to the vet campus which was around 6 miles away. 6 miles. At that moment we were all going, crap, we'll be having to do this for the next 5 years if we choose Edinburgh. Also the bus ride was very bumpy and nauseating.
We went further and further out into the countryside to a point we were all like.. Wow, when they said it was far they were not kidding. We reached the vet school and saw nothing but hills and beautiful scenery. It was absolutely stunning! The fresh air, the cold breeze, the greenery around us was just.. breathtaking. Then we turned to our left and BAM.
Edinburgh Veterinary School Campus
It looked amazinggggg! The campus is mainly for Veterinary related studies so everything around us were farms, stables, hospitals, research centres etc. It was so wonderful :3 Oh! And did you know that Dolly the sheep was cloned in this very exact campus?!
Lecture theatre
I met super awesome people!
Dat view tho
Look at that viewwwww! Honestly, I really felt so calm when I was here. The campus was so so beautiful, this picture doesn't do it justice. I could already imagine myself spending the next 5 years of my life here :)
We got a tour around the campus but I wasn't allowed to take photos most the time so I decided to just chill out and take mental pictures instead :P
After the tour we got dropped off back in town and me and 2 other girls decided to have dinner together! I was really grateful I met them, or else I would have been walking round aimlessly for 5 hours till my coach leaves.
Edinburgh night view
Edinburgh is by far the most beautiful city I've been to :) And that includes Bruges in Belgium!
And that concludes my Edinburgh adventure :3 My next holiday would probably be in the summer before I go back to Malaysia :)
p/s : I was extremely comfortable on my ride back home because I got the handicap seat :3 That was seriously seriously comfortable hehe
Till next time my little pumpkin warriors, keep fighting! x
