St. Andrews Day

November 30 is St. Andrews Day. St. Andrew is to Scotland as St. Patrick is to Ireland. Unfortunately, though, the same comparison can’t be made of the respective holidays. Well, we four interns set out with Alex Salmond to try and spread some enthusiasm among the people of Edinburgh. The Scottish Parliament is soon going to make St. Andrews day a slightly official holiday – hopefully down the road it will reach new heights. Maybe they’ll dye the Firth of Forth blue. We had fun handing out flags and getting people to talk with Mr. Salmond about the holiday. BBC and STV News came along, too, and guess what? We made the news that night! At least, Nichole, Liz and I were on, they seem to have left Rich out.

In the evening, we met up with the SNP again and went to the ‘One Scotland Ceilidh’ at the top of the Royal Mile. I met some SNP members from the University of Edinburgh - whenever I stuff envelopes over at headquarters I wonder where the volunteers are. Well, I found them, and they work hard for the SNP, just not stuffing envelopes. We heard some great live music and even did some traditional Scottish Dancing - 'Strip the Willow' and 'Dancing White Sergeant'. You can see Nichole and Liz dancing away in the picture below.