The morning started with one of our Batty members being down
and out for most of the day. Although we were short of one person we kept our
spirits high throughout our shopping trip to Glasgow. As usual the boys and
girls split up and for the rest of our visit it stayed that way until it was
time to meet up at the train station and leave. After our wee train ride we
convened at Low Port Centre were we made plans for our Burns Supper and
Scottish dance class.
Scottish dancing really exposed the musically inclined and
the people with two left feet. We all came in with predetermined mindsets under
the assumption that it would be easy but within the first ten minutes the
instructors had us sweating like dogs.
We learnt and performed a variety of traditional dances such as the
Gay-Gordons and the Boston Two-Step. To sum it all up the dances involved a lot
of jumping, partner switching, polkaing and laughing (A.K.A. a very hilarious
intense aerobics class).
Our Burns Supper was almost derailed when it was discovered
that one of our members had forgotten her newly bought goods at Glasgow train
station but thanks to the amazing trust system that Scotland has the goods were
handed in to the authorities and waiting for its owner. With that out of our
minds we got dressed to the nines and congregated in the dining hall for the
commencement of the Burns Supper. We were treated to a wonderful menu of food
including haggis. The haggis stabbing ceremony was preformed by Mr Nel and
after the meal the Battys performed The Mans, The Gowd written by world renown
poet Robert Burns (whom the dinner is named after). The most challenging part
of this apart from us not understanding the poem was reciting it in a Scottish
accent. It’s safe to say that as a team we sucked but nonetheless it was
hilarious. We forgot lines, could
not pronounce words and our accents were something else…
We ended the day with a stroll through the Linlithgow palace
gardens and a photo shoot in our formal wear.
By Boipelo
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