Hello everyone, I know I have been ignoring the blog for a while and I apologize for this. I am currently in Stirling Scotland at the University here and it has been a turbulent week. Classes have started and I have a ton to do for class almost every day so hopefully the workload will lessen as we go on so I can do other things outside my room! I am living in Muirhead hall on floor 5 with 4 other fantastic guys. I have only known them for a while but they have really included me and made everything go smoothly. Oddly enough they all seem to go home every weekend so I have time to do other activities and explore Scotland. Today Sarah, Tabatha, and I climbed to the top of Dumyat which is the huge mountain that the university lays in the shadow of. We started out at 9 am and it took us a few hours to get to the top. We met some nice people along the way as well as crossed paths which what looked to be 500 sheep. That was pretty cool. The peak was very windy and had an absolutely beautiful view over all of the surrounding areas and even some well known lochs. After a while at the top we started our decent which was a lot quicker than the way up. After that we decided to head to the Castle of Stirling and look at that. It was a beautiful old castle and all of the walls were made of stone that looked incredibly old. The view really was something and you could tell it was a great place to be a strategic castle for the country of Scotland. Stirling was the capital for a long time until the crown officially went to England. Lots of history walking through the great halls, chapels, royal rooms, and around the outer wall. The incredible amount of gravestones was something that really struck me, especially so close to the castle itself. One reason was to make sure their enemies did not dig up the dead and move them. The castle was actually an English stronghold in the civil wars and after the Scottish took the castle back they destroyed it so it could never be used against them again. After that they realized that wasn't probably the smartest of moves so they rebuilt it. So yeah there was adventure # 1 here and for more pictures follow the link at the bottom of this post. Until next time, this is Nick signing off.
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