Return to Edinburgh

Dear Blog Readers, (or perhaps just dear mum?)
So I have almost been back in Edinburgh for a full two weeks! I am definitely re-acclimatized back to all things Scottish, including but not limited to time zone, weather, classes, increased alcohol consumption (only kidding mum..), and eating the singularly worst food known to man.  All in all things are pretty good over here.
My first week back I got fairly sick, so there may have been a lot of staying all day in bed staring at the wall and all those good things.  I always seem to end up in these fairly intense social situations with absolutely no voice.  I remember my first week ever in college at McGill, I had the raspiest voice, I'm pretty sure I sounded like a demon from hell. It was pretty frightening! But I made it through and improved my non-verbal communication skills to boot.
My classes seem like they will be quite good.  I love my American Innocence class already, (we are reading such classics as Huck Finn, Lolita, To Kill a Mockingbird, Catcher in the Rye and also quite a few lesser known works).  It seems silly to be taking an American literature class over the pond but it was a. the only one I got into and b. American lit is sorta my thing. The teacher is extremely dry and sarcastic and spends about half the class talking about British football and ranting on various topics which is always fun. My other english lit class, is about skeptical Renaissance literature (a philosophy - literature hybrid) which I will be happy just to get through alive.
Although I continue to meet purely exchange students it is slightly more motley crew this time round, not purely New York Americans, which is fun.
Tonight I am off to a three-legged pub-crawl from the University Cocktail society.  It sounds like a dangerous ordeal, (as you who can attest to my complete lack of co-ordination will agree), but hopefully I will be able to maintain a degree of decorum sipping on fruity drinks, brutishly tied to another person.  It seems unlikely but I will not be deterred!
I am now officially a member of the wine society, whisky society and now the cocktail society.  I think I need to seriously rethink my extracurricular choices.  But hey, they don't make societies like this back home.
Saturday I'm going to St. Andrew's for the day, one of my high school friends is on exchange there so hopefully I will get an informed tour of the campus and all that jazz.  And then sunday its off to the edge of the world (aka Shetland Islands) to revel in pagan ritual and burn things.
I will update soon!
love the Sheepish traveller