Fitness Centre strikes again!

Just another little tidbit about the fitness centre. I went to play basketball for the first time last night with a buddy from the hall. Now we were playing a nice full court game in the gym for probably half an hour or so, when our game got interrupted by a staff member of the "centre" (which by the way is completely the wrong spelling and I think the American way of "center" is much better but that is besides the point) because we were not members of the sports club union we would have to stop. Apparently, from what I understood was that even though there was nobody using the gym, and the time and space was set aside for basketball, you had to be a member of this "union" to play. Now you might be thinking, what is the sports union, which is exactly what I thought, and it pretty much is a way for the university to take another 20 or so pounds off of you so that you can use the gym whenever you want. To make a long story short, I argued with the lady in a typical American way, and she let us use the gym for the rest of the night. So DUMB

This past weekend I got the chance to go to a little town outside of Glasgow called Stirling. While most of you have never heard of it, Stirling is the "Gateway to the Highlands", as well as the site of Stirling Castle and the national William Wallace Monument. I pretty much spent all day running around looking at the various sites, and then the group I was with decided that it would be a good idea to hike a mountain starting at 4pm when it gets dark around 5pm. It ended up actually being quite the hike and the view from the top was completely worth it.