It was a quite but productive week here in Glasgow! As the rain has kept up for the past 18 days it has caused me to crack down and actually do some work. Believe it or not, I managed to read a few articles and get my school life in order. I also managed to get a job doing some marketing for a computer store near the university. Helps to have friends in management positions! My new boss is also my current Football coach so the interview was rather informal. We spent the majority of the time talking about a one handed catch I had made at last practise. None the less I start Wednesday and it pays pretty well, which will be extremely helpful once I am done classes and get to travel some more.
This week in sports I continued my regular routine with both hockey and football. All practises went well this week with no major injuries to report. We had our first away hockey game on Sat. in which we travelled to Ayr to take on the number one team. Although it is early in the season they were undefeated with 3 straight wins and were a dominate team last year. In torrential downpours we managed a 4-1 upset and I didn't even take any penalties. Although when our team was warned of "our aggression" by the officials I took a few looks from the guys.
Friday night I went out with the Canadian coaching staff from football and we celebrated the all Canadian group with a large amount of Canadian Club. The night ended roughly and all I need to write is that I am happy it was raining so that most of the mess washed away.
Saturday night after hockey I caught a ride back from Ayr and after a minor near death experience I went for a fantastic Turkey Dinner with about 15 guys from the Football team. It was first decided by those of us from North America that we were going to have a thanksgiving somewhere between Canadian and American thanksgivings. Once word got out a lot of the other guys wanted to know what Thanksgiving was all about so we made it a team gathering. It was fantastic! One of the best feelings in the world is a home cooked meal when your a few thousand kilometers from home. Craziest thing I have seen in a while was on the way home from Thanksgiving last night. It has been raining here for a couple weeks now but mostly intermittent showers. Yesterday we had a full on downpour for the majority of the day on top of the accumulation of water over the past while. Well it proved to be too much as a good portion of the city flooded. The river has flooded as have many of the streets. Outside of our residence there is a 4 lane major road that runs direct into and out of the city center. It wasn't there last night. Instead it was one large lake, as deep as three feet or so in some parts, that covered all 4 lanes and the median between. Cars had to drive up on the curb in order to not submerge the exhaust or parts of the rad. I saw a guy on a motorcycle pull his feet up on top of his gas tank and roll through and the "puddle." The water was over his exhaust in the middle and the bike was smoking all over. Last night the city had to come and pump out as much of the puddle as possible. In a city where it rains as much as here, I would expect them to have a better drainage system.
Today was spent lounging. I watched a few episodes of 'Heroes', my new addiction of a TV show, and am trying to go over my playbook for football. I am going to get a little work done for this weeks classes and hope to get through some more of my readings tonight.
The week ahead promises to be busy with a Bryan Adams concert tomorrow, my b-day on Tuesday, work starting Wednesday and I am heading to England on Thursday night or Friday morning. The weeks are just flying by and I am looking forward to them all.
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