it has started!!!!!!!

so i am writing here from london, and i am on a PC so please excuse any spelling errors i could possibly make.

hello hello hello. sorry if you have not heard from me over the past two weeks.
they have been nothing short of amazing. seriously. i LOVEDDDDDD scotland.
it's beautiful there, and there are some pretty amazing people there.

diaries was on sunday night, in a theater in dundee called "whitehall theater" and there were probably about 500 people there. i'm pretty sure that the event was successful. it went amazingly, the scottish people did so so good dancing in it too. and remember, they just had 5 short days to learn the dances they were in that we had already known for months and months! it was great!

but just being there was great.
to think that i have wanted to go there for sooo many years and the time finally came. it was the perfect time too.
it was also fun seeing the scots that had come to florida but i haven't seen since i was a little girl such as annie, stuart, and paul (and others).
annie brought in pictres last night, because we pulled an all nighter at the gate,from the summer that she was living in my house. i was TEN years old.
i looked like a little baby.

so today the americans went back home, with the addition of sameer to the group, and they have lost me from the group. i was very very nervous when they were leaving, so i definitely teared up a little bit. it's scary though! but jesus is totally protecting me. it's sweet.
i met this amazing lady today in the glasgow airport, she was such a lifesaver.
her name is kay, and she is an older lady. she's been married for 31 years, has 2 kids, a son who is 28 and a daughter who is 26. and she lives in glasgow, but her husband works in london so they kind of fly back and fourth.
well, she helped me out so much in getting to my destination today.
she was going pretty much the same direction as me, so she helped me figure out the trains, and we also went on the undergound, and then bam, i was at the hostel, and i only had to do about 10 minutes of the traveling alone.
i checked into ace hotel in kensington, and went up to my room. as i quietly opened the door (because i was being careful because you never know who could be in there) to my horror i found three boys asleep in that room!
yep. i am sharing a room with 3 other boys.

now, there are still 2 free beds, so everyone needs to pray that we get some girls in there or i will feel so awkward in there!
but it's okay... i'm tough... and i'll try to be in there as little as possible. ha.

for a little while i wasn't feeling so brave about this trip, and i am still feeling a little nervous about it, but i am starting to think it'll be okay. i may get a little confused and mixed up here and there, but everything will be okay.

i will post pictures as soon as i can on flickr.
that's if i didn't leave my camera cord in scotland, i don't think i did... but it could definitely be at the very bottom of my bag.

i am almost out of time on this computer for today.

until next time.

love,
janelle.