Random Tidbits

Style Comparisons

• Scotland: It's mostly the girls that have a different style from what i'm used to, rather than the guys. Girls have the side fringe going on (hence my new haircut). The majority of girls wear black leggins, usually with shoes similar to converses or keds, or boots. Usually with either a long shirt, sometimes buttondown with a big belt, or a skirt that is pulled really high up. They also tend to wear tank tops or "beaters", and this is considered club wear. As for accessories, big bracelets, necklaces and earings. Guys usually have longish hair, best i can compare it to is Edward in the Twilight movie (maybe cuz everyone is so pale here lol).
• Italy: Most of the people in Italy, because i did not see many teens or young adults, were what I would think of when I think Mafia, yeah i'm stereotyping. But the women wore big fur coats and the men wore suits.

Scots Language

For my Scottish Literature class, we had 2 lectures on the Scots Language, which is similar to English, but not. Here are some examples:

1. bairn = child
2. oot = out
3. worl = world
4. tae = to
5. auld = old
6. Jack walks oot to the hen hoose as usual, wee shed beside his mother's hoose. Oh, every nest is full o eggs, hens' eggs, duck eggs, the nests is all full. Jack picks up four o the big beautiful broon eggs oot o the nest, gaes back in an 'here, mother, th're fowr,' he said, 'two tae you, two to me.' De aul wumman says, 'I'll no be a minute, Jack.' It was a open fire they had. The wumman pulled the swar oot, put the fryin pan on, pit a wee bit o fat i the pan. She waitit an she waitit an she watcht, but the wee bit fat wadna melt. -Scottish Short Story: Death in a Nut

I learned what Posh (pronounced p oh sh, i pronounced it like wash, and everyone laughed at me) means: it is one of the heirarchy classes in Britain. These people are very class conscious. It goes Royalty, Nobility, Posh, Upper class, middle class, low class. One of the girls that hangs out with us, but not in our kitchen, is posh. She said she can't date anyone in a lower class than her. They even have a certain accent, b/c when they talk they keep a stiff upper lip.

I met Becca's mom and sister today. Her mom is abnormally tan for being from Ireland, a place that it rains an awful lot.