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Living and Learning in St Andrews: Marching Right Along
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Living and Learning in St Andrews. Monday, April 1, 2013. Another month has come and gone, so it's time for me to bring you up to date on the happenings of our lives here in Scotland over the past 31 days. Here goes! The highlight of March came a couple of weeks ago when we, together with our friends the Allens and the Brewers, rented cars and took back-to-back day trips, exploring parts of Scotland none of us had yet seen. We covered a lot. Posts or the Allens'. The whole crew in front of Dunnottar Cast...
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Living and Learning in St Andrews: May... it happened!
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Living and Learning in St Andrews. Tuesday, June 11, 2013. Explanations and excuses for the delay offered, let me bring you up to date on our lives. As you know if you read our April recap, it was a very. Full month, and I was really looking forward to a bit of return to normal in May. Looking back on it, that is certainly how it turned out. As a result, there's not a ton to report! Also opening at the Balgove in May? For the summer months they convert a big open barn on the property into a haven for mea...
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Living and Learning in St Andrews: April 2013
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Living and Learning in St Andrews. Monday, April 1, 2013. Another month has come and gone, so it's time for me to bring you up to date on the happenings of our lives here in Scotland over the past 31 days. Here goes! The highlight of March came a couple of weeks ago when we, together with our friends the Allens and the Brewers, rented cars and took back-to-back day trips, exploring parts of Scotland none of us had yet seen. We covered a lot. Posts or the Allens'. The whole crew in front of Dunnottar Cast...
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Living and Learning in St Andrews: November 2013
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Living and Learning in St Andrews. Friday, November 15, 2013. Balgoveeeeee - A Work Update. First of all, Jesse and I are officially the WORST at updating our blog. We’ve had many conversations about it and it’s official. We’re just the worst. There are no excuses. Only apologies. The staff: I can honestly say that I enjoy. Who works at Balgove. The level of care people put into their work each day is so evident. I have a great amount of respect for the staff here. They keep Balgove going and...Balgoveee...
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Living and Learning in St Andrews: September 2012
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Living and Learning in St Andrews. Saturday, September 29, 2012. I know that some of you are actively un. Interested in golf; most are probably just ambivalent; and the rest - the golfers - are absolutely seething. With envy at my situation right now. This post is for the latter category. I hope we can still be friends. So, what is golf in St Andrews like? It's a different mindset, that's for sure. Where are all the trees? Why does this hole look so easy? Oh Well. Good luck. The wind and the roug...Bunke...
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Living and Learning in St Andrews: 'What about Liana??' #2: Work
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Living and Learning in St Andrews. Monday, March 11, 2013. The questions I receive most often from people back home are all about my job situation. Finally, you can cease your wondering! Scones, clotted cream, jam, good coffee. One of my happy places. Heading down the drive to the shop and cafe. I would work in the cafe for 6 weeks, and then the shop for 6 weeks before moving into the office. This is so I could learn about the business, see how things run, and get to know the staff. So there you have it!
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Living and Learning in St Andrews: A Pretty Awesome April!
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Living and Learning in St Andrews. Saturday, May 4, 2013. A Pretty Awesome April! As March transitioned into April, I was still feverishly working to complete all the required components of my GRO. By the end of the first week, I had a pretty decent draft of the chapter complete and only the outline to tidy up. Finally, on April 11, it was finished! Actually be done in 80,000 words (or so I hope)! However, one of the drawbacks is that it had made me rather brutally aware of just how much work there is to...
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Living and Learning in St Andrews: October 2012
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Living and Learning in St Andrews. Saturday, October 20, 2012. Observations on life as a research student (one month in). Well, despite what might appear to be the case, Liana and I haven't come to Scotland just to check out a lot of cool castles, play golf, and write blogposts so captivating that the internet itself might blow up. Nope Though some of you may have forgotten, I came here to get my PhD! This first month (and, I anticipate, many of the months to come) has involved a lot. Well, thankfully I ...
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Living and Learning in St Andrews: June 2013
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Living and Learning in St Andrews. Tuesday, June 11, 2013. Explanations and excuses for the delay offered, let me bring you up to date on our lives. As you know if you read our April recap, it was a very. Full month, and I was really looking forward to a bit of return to normal in May. Looking back on it, that is certainly how it turned out. As a result, there's not a ton to report! Also opening at the Balgove in May? For the summer months they convert a big open barn on the property into a haven for mea...