possible travel opportunties next year...

[winterbadger]

Up Helly Aa

Celtic Connections

Hawick Reivers Festival

Ceilidh Culture Festival

Beltane in Edinburgh

Also in Shetland: Sheltand Folk Festival

Isle of Arran Wildlife Festival

Aviemore and Cairngorms Walking and Mountain Festival"

Comments

[magaidhbhan.livejournal.com]

WANT

[onlyrobin.livejournal.com]

I work for a travel company in Dunfermline in Scotland - when you're ready to go, if you need some help putting together a package, I'll be happy to help. Send me a pm and I'll send you my email ...

[winterbadger]

Wooo! Thank you! :-)

[pisica.livejournal.com]

Anything you can do to get winterbadger over here is fantastic! :D

And I have NOT forgotten about the Life in the UK book!

[winterbadger]

I love how enthusiastic my fan club is. :-) Now, if people could just round up one or two cute, eligible Scots girls... (must like cats, books, boardgames, and hiking: bonus points for sailors...)

[onlyrobin.livejournal.com]

I don't know how much actual help I can be but I can always make suggestions and do some research from this end. Can't hurt...

And no worries about the LIUK book - one of the girls on the brit-american thingy is under the impression that we have to take it like RIGHT NOW but I was under the impression that we had until we were getting ready to apply for our ILR to take it ... gonna have to look into it. Kind of stupid to have people take a test about LIVING in the UK if they've only been here for a couple of months ... you'd think closer to the two year ILR deadline would make more sense ... ??????

[winterbadger]

The person who thinks they have to take it on arrival is wrong. It is a prereq. for ILR/citizenship.

Cf. http://www.lifeintheuktest.gov.uk/

"This site helps you to prepare for the Life in the UK Test that is now required for settlement (indefinite leave to remain) in the UK or British citizenship."

[pisica.livejournal.com]

Oh, I had more of the impression you were just kind of generally interested rather than taking the test RIGHT NOW.

I absolutely would *not* take it yet, because a) the HO might change the test again and b) they are overhauling all the rules these days - citizenship itself will change next year - and while Life in the UK probably isn't going away, who knows what will happen?

[pisica.livejournal.com]

Scots girls who must like sailors? ;)

Come over here! I'll put out an ad and set up a speed dating night just for you!

[winterbadger]

All the nice girls like a sailor, eh? ;-)

[redactrice.livejournal.com]

Hey, if you want to try something different next year, there may be opportunities for snorkeling in Belize or visits to Machu Pichu or the Galapagos with your favorite ex-housemates. :-)

[winterbadger]

Depending on where I am and what form my life has taken at that point, I would certainly be up for some of those options! :-) I always like traveling with my favourite ex-housemates. :-)

[onlyrobin.livejournal.com]

I figured - I was in more of a hurry to get my driving license! LOL

[onlyrobin.livejournal.com]

I am generally interested in the test but I don't want to take it now. It didn't make any sense to me that this other girl on britsamericans was in such a hurry to take that test - I mean, she started studying for it the minute she got here! I'm more interested in getting my driving license first and then start casually reading that book and getting familiar with the content. I've traveled over here for ten years and lived here for a few months back in 2006 (on a work visa) so I feel pretty good about taking the test whenever I need to but know there's probably a few things in that book that I need to study a bit before actually taking it. How much did you have to pay to take it, anyway? Everything you do here costs some sort of a fee!

[onlyrobin.livejournal.com]

What? Noooooooooo ... don't try to talk winterbadger out of coming to the UK! ::giggle::

[pisica.livejournal.com]

£34, at the moment. >:(

[pisica.livejournal.com]

Don't worry. I'll round up some cute Scottish women. They don't have many of THOSE in Belize!