Tuesday may seventeenth 2011
Today we woke up at 8:45, ate breakfast and met with the class to go to the museum. It was a short walk and it was a nice day. The Scottish national museum was huge. It was also free. It also had six very elaborate levels of artifacts and information on Scotland. The museum was very amazing, one of the things that stood out the most was the robot figures. Unlike the Shetland museum where they displayed a reconstructed face of a woman, the Scottish national museum decided to have visitors imagine what the scottish people looked like in the time of the particular artifacts being displayed. They had random pieces of jewelry displayed on the robot like figures, allowing the viewer to make their own decisions on what the people were like. The museum was artistic and flowed together as each level progressed in time period. Afterwards we had a discussion on the museum and thoughts about it. Some had mixed feelings but I thought it was great. Then we discussed the articles. The discussion was based on Scotland, Wales, northern Ireland, and England in regards to their independence as well as joining the European union. We mostly discussed Scotland and its new changes in the majority party and whether or not they would benefit from joining then E.U. if Scotland were to join the E.U., the value of money would be different because then pound is much stronger than the euro. After the debate we went to lunch at the elephant house where J.K. Rowling wrote the first couple of books of Harry Potter on napkins. The food was really good and it was a cool place. Afterwards we went shopping. In between the shopping we went to chocolate soup. I had a very chocolaty cupcake. It was very good. I bought my dad a whisky/scotch taster, a really cool sweatshirt and some clothes. For dinner we made food from the grocery store then went out for the night. When we all got back, Katie decided to sleep with danielle and I so we had some quality snuggling time.
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