How many times can I title a post worst blogger ever??

Ok so sorry fans...

See how am I every going to be famous if I neglect my fans now? What am I going to do when my fans consist more than just my mom, dad, and my grandparents?! lol jk :)

Ok so what has Kat Swick been up to lately? Well a cute guy just opened the door for me into my apt. complex :)...so that was exciting...ummm let me think...

I had my last Photography class/final presentation last night. It went alright. I decided to do minimal photoshop (none on most) b/c I think it defeats the art of true photography...anyone can take a picture and make it look glamorous in photoshop, but to be able to capture really amazing glamorous pictures on the spot is more of an art I believe. BUT when you go into a presentation when everyone has photoshoped the crap (am I allowed to say that word on here?) out of their photos so the original is unrecognizable...well it makes your photos look not so glamorous anymore...but they did turn out nice I thought...Hopefully they will upload and you can see them...

Ok So I have my last accessories class on THursday and I am freaking out a little due to the fact I think I won't finish but can't go into the lab b/c we don't have permission...next time I come...I'm coming as a real student...(even though I am paying three times as much as their normal students...lol). And then I give my internship powerpoint on Monday and turn in my essay. Then I have my last draping class on Wednesday and graduation on Thursday! And then I'm done! It has gone by soooooooo fast. Last semester seemed so much longer it's really strange.

Ok and now what you've all been waiting for....SCOTLAND! yay!

Well It was incredible....and I want to move there and never leave...what I am finding is travel and new places become addictive...I just want to go every where now! Please send funds to kat's travel funds @hotmail.com...Just kidding :)

Well how we got to Scotland was quite entertaining...It was Amanda, Christy, Melissa, and I (M & C are go to LAMDA with Amanda) and we boarded a train at 11:30 PM headed for Doncaster...where we had a 5 hour layover...only to have the ticket checker man on the train tell us that the Doncaster station closes after the train arrives and doesn't open till our train at 6:30am...aka we would be wondering the streets of Doncaster from 1:30-6:30am...but luckily he was nice and let us ride the train one more stop to Leeds were we were able to sit in a glass box on the platform till 5:30am where we could then take a train back to Doncaster and change to our train....We then arrived in Scotland at 9:30am...it was the longest night of my life...I tried sleeping in every position possible on those metal chair in Leeds...but who ever invented the fixed arm rest has obviously never had to sleep in a train station...

So after our 9 hour journey...we arrived and lugged our luggage around until we found a sign that said Full Traditional Scottish Breakfast. And that was the first time I ate blood...and intestines...let's just say the Scottish don't like to waste any of part of the animal...and so they invented "black pudding" and Haggis. It really just tasted like sausage. But I won't be eating it every morning for breakfast. :)

We then had to figure out where our Hostels were (we had to say at different ones b/c there was a huge rugby game going on and they were full which turned out to be good b/c there were then lots of men in kilts supporting their teams!...I'm not going to talk about the gust of wind that came by right as I walked behind one...let's just say they don't wear much underneath...). Of course though our hostels were up an insanely steep hill...not joking...I could like reach out and touch the road. Try being tired and thinking why in the world did I pack all this? But we made it! and Amanda and I arrived at Castle Rock Hostel sweating...:) But it was worth it, because we were also standing right next to Edinburgh castle! It was literally across the road! And it was rated Scotland's #1 Hostel for 2008 so it was really nice and a fun environment. We took a 30 minute power nap and then set out for the day! WE explored around where we lived and went to the National gallery and then we met up with the other girls (they took a 2 hour nap...:) ) We went out and explored and ate dinner then went and got ready for a Saturday night out! It was a lot of fun. We went to a bar that played music turned Irish (in honor of St. Patty's day). It was hilarious...I'm kept thinking I never noticed this song had an Irish jig in the background...

Sunday was the best day. We went to the Castle :) and invested in some Princess crowns :). Which we wore all day! Well I did...the other girls bought hats later and traded in their crowns...

After we went to the castle we went to this really yummy baked potato place, to fuel up for our next adventure...and trust me we'd need that fuel by the end of it. We titled the journey "Thank you potato" half way through it. We decided to climb Hollywod Mor (I can't exactly remember how to spell it...but it was close to Hollywood). We walked toward the huge rock/hill/mountain until we ended up at the base of it...we then could see a path about 200 ft straight up, but we couldn't figure out how to get up to the path (where it started down below) so Christy had this brilliant idea that we should just climb up to it...now to Christy that didn't seem dangerous at all...but she hangs out with Navy Seals back home... So up Christy starts to climb and she gets a 1/4 way up and Amanda and Melissa decide that if she could get that far then they could do it...now remember this is literally straight up and a giant rock that has been covered in grass where someone before has made foot holds and hand holds into the dirt/grass 200 feet up....I stay standing on the road until they start yelling at me to come up. So up I start to climb. Christy was worried about me so she told Melissa to go behind me...little did they know of my rock climbing skills... So even without my glitzed/bedazzled blue and orange super cute rock climbing shoes...I ended up passing then and doing some pretty nifty foot work if I do say so myself in my pink converse. Zev would have been proud... Then Christy announces half way up that she is afraid of heights and can't move. So I climb back down a little and Melissa talks her into keep going and I let them ahead of me. Amanda pops up over the edge as a man/boy walks by and I think she scared him a little...and I think his manhood was hurt a little as well b/c his comment to her was "Nice short cut." I wish it would have been me that popped up first...I climbed this entire thing in my crown AND in a skirt! (Now that is talent.) Can you imagine walking along a cliff and a girl in a crown and skirt just popping up over the edge out of nowhere saying in my voice..."which way to King Aurthur's seat?" It would have been quite comical. lol So up and over the edge we all came and started to walk along the path only to come to realize that this path goes down...so we climbed all the way up to go back down...we climbed the wrong rock...the one we wanted...was the one behind ours. So we walked down and then up millions of rock steps to get back up to the top and on King Authur's seat...so 4 hours later we made it! Just before dusk :)It was gorgeous! We could see the sea and all of Edinburgh. It was totally worth it and SOOOO much fun. I really enjoyed it and think I might have to get into hiking now...lol who would have thought?! My dad would have been speechless at my performance. I then preceded to run/skip down the other side of the mountain it was an absolutely brilliant adventure in my eyes. It was also incredible to stand at the same place King Aurthur stood...pretty cool. By the time we made it back to downtown it was dark about 8 and we were ravenous. We decided on Tequila Joe's for Mexican food and two for one Margarita night! We ended up being the only ones in the restaurant and ended up making friends with Alexis, we called him Lexi, the bar tender/waiter and the cook Matt. They ended talking us into moving over to the bar from our table and staying for 5 hours! It was hilarious and we ended up only paying for a 1/4 of our drinks. lol We then said our farewells to our new friends and headed back up the giant hill to our hostel...but by this time it seemed more like a bump in the road than a giant hill when compared to our rock climbing adventure...lol

The next morning we work up early and went for breakfast and picked up a few last souvenirs before we headed for our train. We passed out for the majority of our only 4 hour train ride back to London...yes...only 4 hours this time...not 9...:)

And were back in reality...

Well I'm off to work on my presentation! Hope you enjoyed catching up on my life...I wish I had time to write more!

Lots of Love,

KL

PS the picture of me climbing does not do me justice AT ALL...the angle it is at does not show the steepness of the mountain...but if you look at my hair...you can see where gravity is pulling it...STRAIGHT DOWN....:) xx