Why does it always rain on me?

Third week of our presence in Glasgow ends. We have some intensive lectures last days. But we handle it quite well. There are no limits for Us!!! You can call us HACCP-masters. On Friday we had some small party. Pasta and wine, this is all what we need.

"Have You seen last EU legislation about HACCP?"

Endinburgh (or "Edinbrah")

 

In our first weekend in Scotland we decided to visit the city of Edinburgh (it's pronounced "Edinbrah" - and I have no idea why). Our decision of the location wasn't just for turistical reasons, oh no, it was greatly because 10% of the company was in the city, it was the last day of the International Festival and...because we can.

In the way we decided to stop in Rosslyn Chappel. For those of you that don't know, osslyn Chappel is the last chappel refered in "The DaVinci Code" by Dan Brown - the chappel where they found the "Graal". It's a nice chappel, but it under serious reconstrution works and it lacks some glory. Just watch the pics and you will understand.  Pics inside the building were forbiden, so...just watch the movie if you are curious about the inside.

 

 

  Edinburgh

We arrived in Edinburgh arround 2h30 and we went strait to a restaurant with 20 EJ people. Nice. And then we visited the city. The city was top 10, but it was so crowdy. And we were such a big group. We spent a lot of time getting lost from each other!!! But we had a great time together.

 

Some of the EJ gang.

 

The new Royal Guards!

No more muffins for us!!!

 

The castle of Edinburg - surrounded by seats for the Tattoo Parade.

One of the zillions shows on the streets.

It has a very good day, but this city has a lot to offer and the time was not enough. But we'll be back again with more time.

Greta's birthday!

Another day passed, but it was very important day. One of our friends - Greta ( everybody knows Greta), has a 21th birthday. We started celebration yesterday, when just before midnight we came to her room with "Asda cake" to wish her Happy Birthday. Obviously she was surprised ...It was almost pyjama party...

Unfortunately it was to late to get drunk so the proper celebration she had on today's evening. See yourself were we've been and what we've been doing...(Our Birthday Girl)(Happy Birthday from Ana)

("Is food here fit for human consumption?")
(Definitely YES )

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRETA

PS. Everything could be good if we didn't get lost when we were driving back to the hotel. Fortunately Ana saved us. Thanks Ana...

Scotish whisky

After 2 days of shopping we manage to reasonably fill our luggages with some nice clothes. Well...Bart put everything nicely packaged but Ana just throw everything to the car, as you can see...

The 290 miles that separated us from Glasgow took us almost 5 hours to overcome (4,5h to Ana, because she's a crazy driver), but we finally arrived.

The accomodation provided is a Premier Inn hotel, just 2,5 miles from the university. The hotel is good, but lacks in storage facitilies (AKA proper closets and drawers!!!), so all the clothes are thrown through the room .

The eating area is a pub located in the parking lot. So, there's no way we can take our breakfast in pijama! And everything is self-service. Oh, how we miss the "Teeeeeeeeaa, coffeeeeeee?" of Ramada employers.

About the city it self, well...we didn't got the chance to see it yet. But, so far, if it wasn't for the accent and the different currency, I would say we didn't left England at all.

The lectures started at 9h00, but our presence was required a little bit earlier to fill all those burocratic useless registration forms: "Name? Email? Previous experience?...." BORING

This first day of the course was pretty extensive. We just start to scratch the surface of some legislation and we are already willing to hang ourselves. After 8 hours of lectures "MHS, Animal Welfare, H1, H2, H3" are some of the words that are still buzzing in our heads - I wonder what will we dream about this night ( and with who?)

Road to hell...

Preparations....

Shooping!!!! Do You like it?? Because we do! We just love it and what better excuse for a shooping than spending three weeks in another country? And it was payment day recently. Rich, fresh and full of energy we hit all major stores in Birmingham. Not even rain stoped us. Is this the "power" of money? Long story in short words, lots of pounds and pences spent.
Here You've got some examples ...

How everything started?

Getting to this stage was not exactly piece of cake, but we did it!!! Some of the people said we are lucky. But only we know the true : WE ARE THE BEST!!!!
Lets go back to the beginning of this story...
It was cold and windy day exactly six months ago, 16th of February in charming city of Leeds. Unforgettable Ramada Hotel was our first home here. Crazy group of 12 foreigners from almost all Europe start their journey through flesh and blood. Only if they knew how this new adventure change them for the rest of their life's. We skip the boring parts and we are hitting straight to the point. After several months of bloody, messy and smelly job some of this people tried knock heaven's door and apply for the OV course.
Here is our part of the story. After billions of phone calls and trillions of emails we've been chosen to go to OV course in Glasgow.
In this blog we will try to give You a glance of our exhilarating experience.

We are promising You that we will try to put as many posts as we can, but forgive us if we don't.

Hope You enjoy reading it as much as we will writing it!