Arrival in Glasgow!

When I got on the plane on Monday from New York to Glasgow I was tired from traversing the trains to get tot the airport but I was excited to arrive and meet our new Scottish roommate, to start living in Glasgow, and to begin learning about our work placements. The three other girls I am in Scotland with are Laura Kate from South Carolina, and Sam and Amanda from Ohio. They too were also just as excited and we took pictures in the plane with bright smiles! When we arrived in Glasgow at 7:30am on Tuesday we were greeted by Lynn our site coordinator, Fred a colleague of hers, and Iona our new Scottish roommate. We drove to the flat and breathed a sigh of relief when we unlocked the door to a 5 bedroom flat. We picked our rooms, had tea (the first of the seven cups I had that day), and chatted. We ended up walking around the city trying to keep ourselves awake but we were “flagging”, as they say here, meaning we were exhausted and it was very obvious. We ended up going to dinner at Lynn’s house with her family with food made by John, my work placement supervisor. He is a wonderful cook and dinner was lovely except that by the end of it we were all falling asleep at the table.

The day was finally over and we were going to sleep in our new rooms. The next few days flew by and were just as busy as the first but we weren’t sleep walking this time. On Wednesday we got to go on a scavenger hunt around the city center. We had to ask people walking by what certain things meant and we had to take some pictures with wellies (rain boots), a courgette (zucchini), and a car boot (trunk of a car). It was an exciting day and we also got to sit in a committee meeting and eat lunch and meet some people from the Church of Scotland Priority areas committee.

A Statue outside of the GOMA (Gallery of Modern Art) 
 

Pictures from the Glasgow City Council Building

On Thursday we got to visit work placements. We went to St. Pauls, which is Sam’s parish. We went to Gorbals Parish, which is mine and got to have lunch and then in the afternoon we went to Amanda’s parish, which is called Carnwadric. We met so many people and they were all so hospitable. We are all very excited for our placements. We will be going to the other two placements on Tuesday. Arriving in Glasgow could not have been better and I am learning so much about the priority areas and how the Church of Scotland works.

Blessings,

Julie