Courses and a Chorus

Life here is going on pretty much normally! Well, as normal as it can be in another country. I'm still in love with the ocean, of course. It's so nice to be so close to the water. I've also been writing a lot here (creatively), so that's been good, though that slowed down once I got my laptop! Bad Jennifer!

My classes are going fine so far. There's a lot of reading, but actually not quite as much as I'd thought there'd be. I have papers due pretty soon, though! aack!

Oh, last night I want to my first rehearsal of St. Andrews' chorus. It's an open choir, composed mainly of town people--it's nice to meet some people in the town. Anyway, the best part is there are no auditions! So I'm thinking I'm going to join up. I'm not a great singer or anything, but I do like to sing... They're doing the Messiah right now, which my friends and I were totally lost during the rehearsal...but I think it will be fun to sing once I get the hang of it.

Hmmm...a bit of Scottish history now! Last week we read sonnets attributed to Mary Queen of Scots. However, no one really knows if she wrote them or not...She was married to Lord Darnley at the time, but they didn't get along very well. If she did write the sonnets, they would more than likely be written to Bothwell, the man Mary was in love with. Anyway, Darnley is murdered, and Bothwell and Mary both are accused of the murder...it boils down to, though, that if she wrote the sonnets (and another set of letters), then she probably did help plot the murder--but that's the only evidence, really. And if she didn't write the sonnets/letters, then she is probably framed for it. There's no original manuscript for the sonnets...they suddenly appear a little bit later...And one man in particular, Buchanan, was trying to use them to prove she did it. But it is a really interesting text. Also, did you know we have the Queen Mary library here? It's actually a part of a girls private school. But it's where Queen Mary stayed when she was in St Andrews.

Alright, enough. :)