Gills adventures

Hello!
I made it!!! I just arrived a couple of hours ago at my host family's house in Scotland, it's pretty gorg.
I left home on Sunday night and flew into London at 3:30 am Calgary time- 10:30 here, and was picked up by the UK agriventure representative Katie, her husband Malcolm and 4 Austrailian trainees, who had just flown in a few hours earlier. We went for a picnic along the Thames in the afternoon then back to Heathrow to pick up the last member of our group - another trainee from Langley BC. So there are 6 of us here for the next 6 months. We got along really great and have plans to meet up a couple times over the course of our exchange. There were quite a few funny moments of communication breakdown between me and Katie (the other Canadian) and the Austrailians!!
For the next day and a half we were together every waking moment, Malcolm and Katie organized some great activities for us, we stayed in a sweet B and B in Cambrigshire or something. Then today was our dispersal day. We got up early and drove 2 traineesto the train station, then drove 1 trainee to her new farm, then dropped one off at Birmingham airport, then dropped me off at East Midlands Airport, it was pretty hectic and we were sad that we had to say goodbye to each other already but excited to get going to our placements.
So I took a plane up to Inverness, Scotland and got picked up by Hugh and Gillian (same name as meeee!) and here I am now at Kirkton Farm in the county of Sutherland. It is very beautiful here, it is a huge farm, all the buildings made out of stone. The house has 10 bedrooms and was built in 1812. ( that's older than Canada!). I have met 3 of the 5 kids so far (note: one is not born yet -April 19th) and they seem great.
It is very different here - you should see the some of the signs- like the emergency exit is represented by a man running and an arrow and a door, pretty funny! I haven't gotten much sleep over the past couple days, but Hugh and Gillian have said to take tomorrow easy so hopefully I can get caught up.
So that's it for now - know that I am safe and sound, exhausted and surrounded by foreigners, but happy!
I will post again soon, hope y'all are doing well and hope to talk to you soon

greetings!
ok, so technically I am not travelling yet.......but I'm leaving on sunday and this is my trial blog. Hopefully, in the coming months you will read this blog and be able to know a little bit about what I am doing. Till next time.......