Live from the Edinburgh Airport

What the heck, one more post!

Here we are, happy, bleary-eyed and sort of ready to come home. Our final AHSTF show was very good and the cast was so supportive as we were their only audience members. They jumped up at the end and gave them a standing ovation of support and were really nice to them after wards at the dorm.

Yesterday, we began the day with a closing ceremony conducted by AHSTF which was very nice. There were speeches by a key player of The Fringe team, leaders of AHSTF and....Shilpa and Aseem. The head of AHSTF called me other other day and asked me to select two students to speak about their experiences - they were the only kids to speak. That was a really neat honor and of course, Shilpa and Aseem (on his 18th birthday!) did us proud. The kids were then ready to PLAY! We left campus at 11:15 am and returned at 11:30pm. In between, we caught lunch on the mile, many of us sitting on the sidewalks enjoying the street performers. At 1pm, we saw a comedy (I selected each genre, if you noticed on our schedule) called Potter Potted. It was a fun, well done, comedy act: all 7 books in 1 hour! Then, the kids had 3 hours to tour the sights, sit in a cafe, shop, or enjoy the street performers. At 5pm,we hooked up again for a wonderful dinner. Mr. Daren and Ms. Snider found an awesome restaurant that was new and eager for clients - the made a fixed menu for us of wonderful selections like risotto and sea bass. And, they also secured four beautiful cakes! We indulged. Then, it was off to Into the Hood - a fabulous hip hop, multimedia retelling of into the woods. We loved it. And our final event? A ghost tour through historical above and below Edinburgh.

Plane is leaving!! See you soon!