Hey Guys,

So yeah, sorry about not updating for a while, just have not been bothered. However by now hopefully you are hearing my new Podcast, now you can read my thoughts and hear mine and my friend Alasdair's thoughts. Let us know what you think at sandersonandthewalrus@gmail.com. Please keep listening, we hope to become the most popular podcast lol!

See you later,

Sandy

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Sandy

So Yeah,

Here i am sitting in a starbucks very close to central park! (sorry there is no central perk that i have found lol)

New York is cool, i still feel strange being here cos its like New York! I dont do New York I do Stirling and maybe Glasgow! I am getting used to it though which is kind of bad cos i have to leave in three days!

So since i arrived in NY i have been up to many things. I arrived on friday, and met Mike, the boyfriend of the friend i am staying with in a Starbucks in NYU, then we went to the appartment and Mariah came back from her nannying job. The next day we slept in and i went to the Natural History museum, it was really interesting for two main reasons: The life size-ish replica of a Blue Whale and the cool imax film i saw about the ocean!

Then kate came to meet me, we hung out in a strbucks for a while till we met Mariah and then we went to the appartment and had ice cream whilst watching scrubs. The next two days were spent with my Auntie Dorothy and Laura, it was nice to see them. We went speedboating on the Hudson the first day and Did china town, the next day we did some shopping and the Jewish Heritage Museum and also went up the Empire State Building where we saw the Australian P.M.!!!

Then yesterday i visited Ithaca where my co counsellor goes to cornell universtiy. ITs a lovely place and i think the campus may e bigger than St Andrews itself.It was great to see Matt again, although it was only a short visit. He has made many nice friends there!

So I arrived back in NY today and read fora few hours in Central Park and thencame here. I have three more days left, i Plan to go back to the Met museum to see an exhibit on Medicine, and see the statue ofliberty and take the staten island ferry. I also want to go to the Apple store to see the tiny Ipod Nano!

Anywho I fly back soon, so i will see y'all who go to St Andews very soon, and the rest of you take heart as i will no longer be an ocean away!!!

Sandy

Hi Guys,

So here I am halfway through my penultimate week in the US. It feels weird to be leaving so soon.

Right now i am in Dallas Fortworth Airport, my flight has been delayed and i am watching a bunch of troops come through the security gates no doubt headed for the disaster area in New Orleans or Iraq, i think the former to be more likely.

Dallas has been great! My dad will be happy as i have done the sixth floor museum stuff (its the one about the Kennedy assasination). I am happy as i have seen sarah a good friend from last year who will not be returning to St Andrews. It was sad leaving today as last time she left i could just say "I'll see you in two months!" I can however no longer say that.

I have also beenup to see her familly in Oklahoma City, we stayed with her twin sister's boyfirend and also with her grandparents. I went to a huge college Football (american) game. However our team the Oklahoma Sooners were beaten for the first time in six years! I also went to the bombing memeorial and the Cowboy Hall of Fame. The area is beautiful but very very flat. Sarahs Grandparents also lived right off of Route 66 how cool is that?

So the last comment sucked, in New Jersey where is was,with some other counsellors, Sweedish Dave, Matt, Sam, Russell, Jooles, Adam, we went to the mall and hung out around NJ sampling local delicacies such as "Cluck U" a charming chiken wings restaurant! We also got fairly tipsy, blacking outingly so! It was fun however, we also met up with people from our camps corresponding girls camp, who knew me as "sunny, the guy who hooked up with rachel"! It was a fairly awkward time.

Then i Was in North Carolina and Virginia visiting Laura, I had a great time and i was in the south! It was very interesting and laura had a lovely familly, even though they were very republican! We helped lauras sister move appartments and then we visited lauras university town. It was nice and her university looks very cool and oldschool american which is like normal age Britain! After a few evenings there playing Kings! (so much fun)i journeyed back up to DC to stay with leah for a few more days, I am actually on my way there right now! It was good to be back in DC i love the city, could easily see myslef living there. I also got my ipod replaced as it was broken which was very cool! I visited the international spy museum and the Zoo where i saw a newborn Panda.

So a week ago today i flew down here to Texas Oklahoma and i have tod you about that above!

As i have said u am waiting for my plane back to DC it takes 3 hours so is not too bad! Tomorrow i will be greyhounding it up to New York! which is four hours on a bus but whenyou are going to NY i think i can manage it! In NY i am staying with Mariah and Mike. I will be doing all the sights! I cannot wait. Then on like tuesday or wednesday i am going to visit Cornell Uni, where my co counsellor is at, so that will be fun and will add to my University list. I will also be In NY for 9/11, so i think i will got to the memorial.

so if all goes well i will be back in around a week and a half. Not sure yet when i get into St Andrews, depends how much my mum wants to see of me!

I shall sign off now, see y'all soon,

Hope you all have a great time back at university!

Sandy

Hey Guys,

So here I am, camp is over and I am finally on Holliday. No getting up at 7:45, to the reveille bugle, no kids screaming during meals and no more stupid ill animals!
Seriously though, camp was so much fun, it was a great experience and I made many good friends. I am hoping to go back next year!

I could tell you all many, many tales from camp, but I am sure you will not want to read them as all of them involve people you don’t know! Just wait till I am home, you can have all the fun of hearing them then! (Seriously it will be worse than Belgium and Japan stories!)

Right now I am in Virginia with Pookie, (Laura, a friend from hall). We are in Lexington which is where her university is, it is a lovely place. I have also been to her house in Hickory, North Carolina. That was lovely, and it is a very nice state!

Straight after camp I was at Russell’s house, with two other counsellors, we had a lot of fun and were very wasted sometimes! Although we had to make up two extra years of our lives as Russell told his parents that I was 21!

So from here I am heading back to see Leah in Washington DC on Sunday. On Tuesday I am off to see Sarah and the grassy knoll in Dallas Texas! We will also be going to Oklahoma City on Labour Day weekend.

After that I am going to return to dc for one night and then up to New York for the rest of my time, I should return sometime during freshers week!
Anyway I must be off now, see you soon.


Sandy

Hey Guys,

How are we all? I am still having a great time at camp! We are in our last week of the first session and it had gone well. I am enjoying teaching human biology, it is very fun, we were dissecting frogs and tomorrow I think we will make a model of the lungs!

Today the kids all went on trips so we kind of had a day off! I slept for so long! It was great however we are back to the old ways tomorrow. I have a lovely day on Wednesday, I have a free first, then human bio, swimming and then cabin check which is basically a free then I have a free fifth!!!

I am now going to say hey to my awesome co counsellor Matt-Sizzle, this blog is for you, hope you are enjoying the lake right now! I hope stu comes back soon so we can join you!

In other exciting news I have bought my tickets to texas!!!! I cannot wait to go an see Sarah it will be so much fun, I think we will be attending a fat party it will be fun!

So that’s about it,

See you later,


Sandolf

Hi Guys,


I thought it time for another post. Camp has been much the same recently, I have settled into the routine. The kids are all fine, the homesick one wrote home again saying that he wanted to die and was rotting away here. His mum was not pleased but he is just doing to try to get her to take him home. I just wish that he would get over it, cos I know that he would have a much better time and that I would not get called to the office every two days to speak to his mum!

Anyway yesterday I went to visit Leah in Washington DC with my day off group. We left camp at midnight on Wednesday and arrived almost five hours later at leahs It was weird seeing her in her home in Washington and not back in Scotland, but it was great to see her again. So on Thursday we went around the Mall where all the monuments are, it was spectacular. I know I am all anti bush/ America but it was so impressive and cool to be seeing these monuments that I have seen so many times on the TV.

In front of the whitehouse we were interviewed by a women from the Los Angeles times about our thoughts on the bombings in London, we had heard about them just before we left leahs.

Then after her work leah met us in the natural history museums I love those places they are so cool. We then decided to go to the capitol and see the senate it was very impressive too.

After that whistle stop tour we powered back up to camp and got in at 2 in the morning, I was indeed very tired but it was worth it, I really want to go back!

See Y’all later,

Sandy