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During the last months, I had decided to take an English language course in Glasgow, it wasn´t a very stressing one, just 15 hours per week, I had classes from 9 till 12:15 and after that I could do whatever I wanted.

I can´t complain about the british weather (once again), the first week it was perfect, it almost didn´t rain, and it wasn´t cold at all; the second one it wasn´t so good, very windy and more rain; and finally the third one it was quite cold but I almost didn´t see a cloud. The place were I lived (Firhill Road) was quite good, although it wasn´t right in the city centre, it wasn´t that far either, and most of the days I went to class (with other students) on foot (also because it rarely rained and from my window I could see part of the field where the Glasgow Warriors played their matches(our building was just after the stadium), while I was there Toulousse and Leinster came to play (Heineken Cup and Magners Celtic League respectively).

During weekdays, after class, I would visit different things around Glasgow, city centre (Sauchihall st., Buchanan st., George Square…) the cathedral (with the necropolis), the university, the exhibition centre, all its parks (Glasgow Green, Kelvingrove, Pollock…) and its museums (quite interesting and most of them for free Also nice was to meet the people that studied and lived with me, all of them very different and from all over the world (apart from Spain, Portugal and South America(several countries) also from China, Palestina/Jordania, Greece, (Rusia), Italy, Japan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Czech Republic, Libia, Iran … unfortunatelly I didn´t meet anybody from Poland

(some of those who lived with me)

And during the weekend I would travel somewhere, the first weekend we went to Stirling (first capital of Scotland) and the William Wallace monument, with fine rain all day long, but that didn´t stop some us to go there. Again there were some funny things happening in the train The second weekend it was Edimburgh´s turn, more touristic than Glasgow (you could see more tourists on the streets) quite beautiful, there was a horrible wind that day, and although it didn´t rain (fortunatelly) it was reall cold. Finally, the last one we went to Loch Lomond, a lake with many mountains around it.

Some remarkable things to say are that while I was there it was Halloween, it is just a party, people dress up and go out, but they did that thursday, friday and saturday (and even on sunday when I was coming back home, I saw some people wearing their costumes) a good excuse to have some fun Also nice was to feed the squirrels, which would come if you called them, there are lots of them in most of the parks of the city; also meeting the Highland Cow (in Pollock Park and in Loch Lomond).

(a squirrel running away after getting the wanted item