A little info on Glasgow

I'm back in Glasgow, and hoo doggie was the last week fun. But seeing as so much has happened, and I haven't mentioned my stay in Glasgow, I certainly will not write everything out at the moment. Let's rewind.

Glasgow will certainly be a great place to spend a semester. While yes, I enjoy Edinburgh quite a lot, it's probably a better place to visit rather than live (although studying there would be fantastic). Glasgow has a much different feel, being a larger city and all. Glasgow is a much hipper place than Edinburgh, with plenty of night-life and a trendy attitude. Unlike Edinburgh, its far from touristy (There aren't too many cashmere places here). Even though its not as pretty as Edinburgh, it has some great architecture, mixing Victorian with modern. The city centre can be a little too mainstream with its abundance of department stores (I think I saw about three H&M's), but the west end (where I am) has a great vibe with plenty to offer.

The university here is large, but all centered in one area (once again, the west end). As some people in my group has said, the main building/tower is pretty much hogwarts. On my walk to campus is the wonderful Kelvingrove Museum, displaying art, science-y stuff, and artifacts. It's quite a lovely building too (at night they have cool colors shining on it). I've spend many hours there, mostly in the art sections. They had an exhibition on the Glasgow Boys (a group of artists who worked together around 1880-90s). Its interesting to see how they all started out in the same style, but by the 1890s they branched off into unique styles. I also went to the modern art gallery downtown... meh. (I should say city centre instead of downtown, bloody Scottish are trying to make all American colloquialisms sexual innuendos).

Being a theatre guy, our Professor leader guy treated us to a fantastic play. Its called "Beautiful Burnout," and it's about boxing. Yup. Boxing. At first I didn't care much for it, but the ending was amazing. At a technical stand-point, this play is unlike any I've seen. The choreography was spot on, and the stage (a boxing ring like platform in the middle of the audience) had a circle in it that rotated. This allowed for cinematic-like freeze shots where the boxers clashed, became motionless, and rotated. Then one of them would move in a subconscious of sorts while the other stayed still. They used this in other ways, but they didn't over do it.

With that out of the way, now I can proceed to this last week up north! Ah, maybe tomorrow. Yea, I'll get to that tomorrow.