Week in Review 10/18- 10/24

School work is finally taking over. Because I've had a cold for the past week, which I am finally getting over, I've mostly been busy reading. Other than my weekend trip to Fort William, the past week has sadly been fairly uneventful. The Glasgow Rangers, however, did manage to draw with Barcelona in Champion's League on Tuesday night, which is pretty amazing. Barcelona started Brazil's Ronaldinho and Thierry Henry of France, arguably the world two best footballers. On the Rangers' side, American DaMarcus Beasley came in and provided a couple of goal scoring opportunities in the final 20 minutes.

Other than that, Rockies or Sox? (You better be rooting for Colorado)

Fort William

I ventured to Fort William this past weekend to take part in my first Breakaway Hillwalking Club trip of the semester. On Saturday I went with a group up and around the Ring of Steall, a series of four munros just across the valley from Scotland highest peak, Ben Nevis. It was 9 miles of walking and a toal ascent of 4,900 feet. Luckily the weather was very nice on Saturday, which provided for some amazing views of the surrounding Mamores, a group of 10 munros in the Ben Nevis area.

On Sunday I bagged two more munros of pretty respectable size along a ridge running parallel the very large Loch Treig. The weather was a little less cooperative, but it was still an amazing walk. This video is taken from near the top of Stob Coire Easain, the second and higher of the two peaks we climbed that day.

I will also be posting all of the weekend's photos on Snapfish, so check your emails for that!

Week in Review 10/11-10/17

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to beautiful St. Monans, home of the spectacularly dipping anticlinal sandstone bed. (Geoscience Field Excursion)

And how about those Lomond Hills? (Geography Excursion)

After Scotland dominates Ukraine 3-1 last week, they promptly lose to... Georgia. The country.

Sunday league football in St. Andrews resumed for its second week of play, and Atholl F.C. lost 5-4, but yours truly managed to net our final 3 goals to mount a courageous but ultimately unsuccessful comeback.

Speaking of sports, I've been elected the male sports representative for John Burnet Hall this year. What does this mean? More rugby matches!

And finally... how would you react if I told you the Rockies were going to the World Series back in April?

Scotland Football and Rugby World Cup

Yesterday was a proud day for Scottish football, as they beat Ukraine convincingly 3-1 after going up 2-0 within the first ten minutes. Surprisingly they are still in first place for their group in Euro 2008 (like the World Cup but only for European teams) in a group that includes France and Italy.

The Rugby World Cup is also going on right now, and last night France lost to England in the first semifinal match. Tonight Argentina takes on South Africa. I was rooting for France, but now I'm going for Argentina as the underdogs in the tournament.

Week in Review 10/3-10/10

Here a goes an attempt at consistently blogging on a weekly basis.

Nick Dougherty wins the 2007 Dunhill Links Championship in St. Andrews at 18 under par, and 18-year-old Rory McIlroy places third (nice paycheck for your 1st tournament as a pro).

Hugh Grant gets a little too frisky with a St. Andrews student in a house party. Unfortunately, I was not in attendance.

American soccer player DaMarcus Beasley scores for the Glasgow Rangers.

I joined the St. Andrews Waterski and Wakeboard Club. We went out to Dunfermline on Wednesday afternoon and to my surprise I remembered how to wakeboard from way back in the Gold Arrow Camp days.

I had a great 19th birthday! Drinks were had, games were played, songs were sung (poorly), and, well, we tried to dance. Only downside: got tangled with a nettle bush on the way back to the dorm, and I have a terrible rash on my arm.

Last but not least, STANFORD beat usc!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posing with Celebrities

I went early this morning to the first tee and got my picture with a couple celebrities. Here I am with Hugh Grant (you're welcome, Mom) and George Lopez. I also saw plenty of great golfers up close on the putting green this morning including Michael Campbell, Ernie Els, Colin Montgomerie, and Nick Faldo. Remember you can click on the picture to make it full screen.

Great Weather in St Andrews

It was another perfect day in St. Andrews without a cloud in the sky. I watched some groups tee off on the 1st hole yesterday and got to see Luke Donald tee it up for his practice round.

Dunhill Links 07

This week the Dunhill Links Championship comes to St. Andrews, and because it is a Pro-Am, all the celebrities get in their practice rounds in the beginning of the week. Today we already were graced with Samuel L. Jackson's prescense on the 18th tee. Here he is looking very sharp.

I had a football with me and tried to throw it tohim after he teed off. Unfortunately he didn't want to play catch but he did shoot us a smile and a wave.