So it has been a while since I wrote my last blog. The reason being I have been back home in Scotland for the winter break. It was nice to get back but it did get a bit boring after a while as there is only so much visiting family that I could take. There is just something about Chicago that keeps drawing you back. It really is an amazing place to live.

While it was good to be back home and see all of my family and friends the weather was not so nice. Northern Europe and more particularly Scotland was experiencing the worst snow/winter weather in fifty years. On my way home from the airport I had to get out and push my dad’s car as it got stuck on ice while trying to go up a hill. It got so bad that they even called in the army to help clear all of the snow and ice off the streets. The trains and buses were not running, motorways were shut, food stores were not getting deliveries and airports were closed. I was meant to fly home on a Tuesday but my flight got cancelled due to the bad weather in London and so I had to wait another day before could travel and then once I had gotten to London my connecting flight was cancelled due to the weather up north in Glasgow.

Anyway, this coming quarter should hopefully be fun. I don’t have any classes on a Wednesday or Friday and for the past two weeks I have been let out early from my Tuesday night class. Next month is the homecoming dance which this year has an 80s theme to it. Homecoming is always fun. It is usually held in a really “cool” place. My freshman year it was Union Train Station (the closed off a part of the station), last year it was held at Navy Pier and this year has yet to be announced but I am sure it will be somewhere good. I just have to figure out what I am going to wear to coincide with the 80s theme. Probably something with flares and brightly colored should be appropriate I was thinking.

Well until next time which will most probably be next week I shall bid you all a farewell.

Matt