Lost in London

Okay, so I'm finally here at my hostel. Finally. Gosh. Everything was peachy this morning... Got to the airport on time, flight only took an hour, took the London Express from London Stansted to Victoria Station... And then I got lost. Wandered around Victoria Station for almost an hour, stopping to get food at Burger King before I finally found the Info Centre. Asked them how to get to King's Cross and they directed me to the Victoria Line which is underneath the Victoria Station. So, anyway, got on the Victoria Line, got off at King's Cross/St Pancras and then realized that I'd forgotten to write down the street my hostel was on. Durrr... I bought a map, asked several random people on the street/in restaurants/at newspaper stands before I found another hostel that said Journey's Hostel was on Caledonian Street. So I finally get here after being lost in London for almost three hours. I'm really tired and have come down with some sort of cold so I think I'm just going to stay in this area and not go to any museums today. I'll be going to see Wicked tonight at the Apollo Victoria and then tomorrow I'll hit as many museums as I can before my trip on the London Eye at 7:30.

Some guy from Ireland came in to get his bag (there are lockers right next to the computers) and was talking to me about something, though I couldn't tell what he was saying half the time! I can understand Scottish accents now but some thick Irish accents are so hard to make sense of!

Alright, I'm gonna get out and walk around a bit, see if I can get rid of this headache. Ciao!

Isle of Skye and London

So, last weekend I traveled up to the Isle of Skye in western Scotland and it was ahh-mazing! Go here to see 50 or so of my pictures (I took 290 including videos). The first two days were solid sunshine, though a wee bit windy, and the third was pouring rain the entire way back to the 'burgh. That was alright by all of us, however, because we were exhausted from the first two days of the Skye trip. While on Skye I hiked around lighthouses, 16th century houses and brochs, sampled the local ales and whisky, and generally got to know everyone on the minicoach. If you're ever in Scotland, I very highly suggest you take a trip with Rabbie's Trail Burners; they are fantastic!

Tomorrow morning I head down to London for a weekend full of museums, theatre and sightseeing! I had to splurge a little and get a plane ticket because the rail workers in Scotland are on strike and the trains are barely running at all. So, that means that I can be in London in an hour and a half after leaving Edinburgh and get started on my adventures. The hostel I'm staying at near King's Cross Station supposedly has internet access so I'll see if I can post from there.

Hope y'all are having a great start to the month of March!

New pictures!

New pictures have now been added to my picture site from last weekend's tourist day out! Here's a couple of my favorites:

This is looking down the Royal Mile from the top of Camera Obscura (right near Edinburgh Castle).

And this one is looking out over all the chimneys!

Tomorrow morning I'm off to the Isle of Skye... Have a great weekend y'all!

Travel!

For the first time in the two months that I've been in Edinburgh I'm going to leave the city limits. This weekend I'm going on a three-day trip to the Isle of Skye with Rabbie's Trail Burners! (Check out the itinerary here.) And next weekend I'm going to London to see the following museums: British Museum, Freud Museum, Museum of London, Natural History Museum, and the Science Museum. Then, the weekend after, I'm headed off to the Isle of Mull with my flatmate and some friends! And the weekend after that my Mom is here so we'll be going to Glasgow and Dumfries!

I'm so excited to travel!

Okay, I know...

I know what you're all thinking, "Dang, that Liza is a lazy blogger for sure!" So, yes, it's true that I haven't updated in the last two weeks. But, you all have to trust me, I'm not dead! I've just been up to lots of stuff and/or been too lazy to update this thing-a-ma-blog o' mine. To make up for it, I give you this video (opens a new window) which is a promotional video from Our Dynamic Earth's events department. It shows what fabulous events are possible at Dynamic Earth and has some great visuals and images of the landmark building I work in.

My internship is going as well as could be. I'm nearly half-way to my goal of surveying 100 visitors and I should hopefully have more completed surveys once I go in tomorrow to check the survey box. Next up for this week will be completing a costings list of materials for the polar-themed activity for pre-school kids. I can't believe I've only got three and a half weeks of my internship left! My goodness, time sure does fly when one is learning so much and having a great time!

Yesterday one of my coworkers grabbed some ASVA (Association of Scottish Visitor Attractions) passes so that we could be touristy and get into attractions for free. First off we went into the National Gallery of Scotland and looked at some simply amazing art! We saw art by Monet, Degas, Gauguin, Cézanne, Rembrandt, as well as Raeburn's Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch. There was this one painting that was so interesting... There was a man whose face was so realistic! You should have seen his hair, his eyebrows, his wrinkles; I think I looked at that one for about 15 minutes for that reason alone.

After that we went off to Camera Obscura and the World of Illusions which completely blew me away! (The website is still in construction but you can see some of the views from the tower there.) The first thing we did was go to the very top of the building to the tower which overlooks Edinburgh including the Castle, Princes Street and the Royal Mile. My coworker let me use her camera so I'll try to put up the pictures we took there soon. Then there was a presentation using the actual camera obscura and that was one of the most extraordinary things I have ever seen in my 21.66 years of life! The rest of the building houses a collection of visual illusions, hands-on activities, and enough holographic wonders to last a few hours at least. This is a definite must-see for any visitor to Edinburgh!

Then we went to the 3D Loch Ness Experience which was kinda interesting, I guess... I can't see how they're a 4 star visitor attraction, but it was worth seeing just to say that I've seen it. What I'm trying to say is that I wouldn't have gone if I had to pay a fiver (10 US dollars) to see the 25 minute film. Some of it was 3D and some of it wasn't, or so it seemed. Thank goodness for the ASVA pass making it free for us!

Finally we went to the Scotch Whiskey Heritage Centre which was a perfect ending to a day of tourist activities! With our (free) admission we also got to attend a whiskey tasting session before the start of our tour. Yes, ladies and gents, I had my first taste of whiskey and it was beautiful. I had a dram of Isle of Skye and I really appreciated the caramel/citrus taste that went down smooth with a slight zing at the end. Made me all warm and toasty! The tour was fun; a series of four sessions: First a video, second a talk from a guide telling us about what a distillery is like, third a projected video of a deceased noser (a person who checks whiskey by smelling it) and, fourth, a barrel ride through the history of whiskey in Scotland. Yes, you heard me right: A barrel ride! It was like going on a trip through a wax figure history of the topic and was kinda cheesy, but I love cheesy things so I had a good time.

All in all it was a great day doing touristy things! I'll let you all know, via this thing-a-ma-blog, when I've got new pictures posted. Hope you're all doing fab!

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Snow, free tours and school, oh my!

We finally got some sticky snow, even though it was only a couple of centimeters. Here's the snow right outside my window...

And here's a wee bit of snow on Salisbury Crags, right by Dynamic Earth...

All of it was even lovelier in person! Also, with the (literally) freezing temperatures we're having, I've gotten to use my puffy brown, knee-length jacket with faux fur lined hood; I feel like I'm walking around still wrapped up in the duvet from my bed!

In just a few weeks' time I'll be heading out on a 3 day tour to the Isle of Skye in the northwest of Scotland! I had heard great things about Rabbie's Trail Burners, located on the Royal Mile, so I went to see them last Monday. Since I still had my ASVA pass from the trip to the zoo, I asked if they had a discount for ASVA, not really expecting much. The fella at the desk wasn't sure and asked someone else in the shop. She didn't know either and told him to call up someone to ask about it. So, he calls, and I'm waiting patiently, telling him my name and that I'm with Dynamic Earth, etc. He hangs up the phone and says, "Yes, you do get a discount... Free!" I couldn't believe it and blurted out, "Are you sure?" He booked me on a tour and told me to give a call back a week before to just confirm that the tour would be going on the date I wanted. (In the slower months, one has to have patience and understand that a tour bus cannot just go with one visitor aboard!) I will need to pay for my lodging in a hostel or B&B and food but that would have been extra anyway. This is saving me the 79 pounds (roughly $155) that I would have paid for the 3 day trip (click there to see the itinerary)!

For those of you keeping up on my academic life, I've decided to ditch the Anthroplogy minor idea. Why, you say? (Or perhaps you don't say and I'm just stuffing words into your mouth.) Well, I looked at what I would need to get my half finished minor in Community Development and it is decidedly less than I remembered. It would take less time, less money and less insanity to complete. Less is more, sometimes.

And with that, I shall end this post. Thanks for tuning in and, if you want me to know you've been reading, leave me a comment! =)

Zoo Review

Yesterday, Sunday, I decided to go to the Edinburgh Zoo for a few hours since I had the ASVA pass (Association of Scottish Visitor Attractions) that gets me in free to most of the museums/galleries/zoos/guided tours/castles/distilleries/etc. in Scotland. The zoo here is located on a hill and so I ended up getting quite the workout! They had a lot of animals, some I hadn't seen before, some I hadn't heard of before, some I was suprised to see. For example, they had a skunk. Yes, a skunk in a zoo! It was in a little hutch when I was there so I didn't see it, but I smelled it for sure. Some of the more unique animals I saw were the Painted Hunting Dogs, the Maned Wolves, the Southern Cassowary, the Eastern Bongo, the Capybara, the Cotton-Top Tamarins, and the Steller Sea Eagle. (I'll post pictures to my picture site soon!) And here's a video of the Oriental Small-clawed Otters! They were so tiny!

The trip to and from the zoo was also a very musical one. On the walk to the bus stop I listened to The Shins, my favorite walking music. On the bus I listened to Seu Jorge and Four Tet. At the zoo I listened to the Glenn Miller Orchestra (and Bill Bailey for the Zebra song). On the bus ride home I listened to Belle & Sebastian and Cities of Foam. Walking back to the flat I listened to Frou Frou. Huzzah for musical diversity!

Today I have the day off and I think I'll hang out at home for a little longer and then do touristy stuff. I was thinking of going to Mary King's Close and then buying tickets for my trip to the Isle of Skye. I might stop by the library as well. Hope y'all have a fab week!

More news from the Land of Scots!

If there's anything that I've gotten a chance to work on whilst here, it's been social networking. I consider myself to be a pretty shy person and, as a result, I don't get out much to meet new people. Or, rather, I didn't before I came here. Here, I meet tons of amazingly kind and open people through work and my flatmate. Any time I'm invited out, I go, even though I'm usually completely unfamiliar with most of the places I end up. And, except in the rare occasion, I usually have a total blast! People can really make an experience worth it, I've learned. I'd like to think I knew this before, as a general idea/theory, but now I've experienced it and know it to be true in many situations.

As a result of spending massive amounts of time at the National Museum of Scotland, I've become increasingly interested in dead people. Sure, it might sound weird, but just think of all the people who have lived before us and the experiences they must have had... There's no recreating that experience because most of us cannot go through that without some serious time travel! So, anyway, my point is this: Dead people are fascinating. That said, I'm thinking of pursuing a minor in Anthropology once I'm back at Portland State in either Spring or Summer. I've already got one of the required classes under my belt and I would just need an additional 24. All of the classes look amazing and I would be able to finish those credits within two terms, which is only one additional term to what I would have done without the minor. Also, getting a minor in a specific field will hopefully give me a better chance when it comes to applying to graduate school in a year or so.

I can't believe I'm nearly half-way through my internship! I'll finally get to start surveying and observing next week as well as continuing my research on evaluation and education program development. It'll be interesting to see what kind of data I can compile based on the surveying and observing!

This weekend I was planning on going to Rosslyn Chapel with some friends but one has been out sick so I believe we're postponing that for the time being... Tomorrow I plan to go to the Edinburgh Zoo though and I'm so excited! I'll try to remember to post after my trip and give you all a review of the place. =)

Well, it's just about 1:35 am here so I'd better head to bed! Hope you're well and thanks for reading!

Another Good Week Almost Gone

What's with all these good experiences? Aren't I supposed to have weeks that are harder than others? Perhaps I'm speaking too soon, but I've just been having a wonderful time! Even when I've been stressed, I've still enjoyed myself as it's all a part of the balance of life. Might sound cheesey, but it's very true. =)

My internship at Dynamic Earth has been going well, I think. Today I spent time in the galleries taking notes on all the aspects that visitors can read and interact with. I also observed visitor interaction with the Visitor Guides which was really interesting. Each guide has a different style of making that important connection with visitors and it was worth it for me to see the variety of styles.

On Tuesday night I went with my flatmate and his friends to see the Edinburgh University Footlights production of West Side Story. Three words: Amazingly well done. It was difficult to believe that the talent I saw onstage came from people my age! And it wasn't just onstage, no, they had a live pit orchestra as well! People, I'm telling you, this was well worth the six and a half pounds it cost (about $13 considering the current currency conversions) to get in to see the show.

And now, for a picture or two...

This is me in front of Dynamic Earth, photo taken by one of ODE's Education Officers.

And this is the Royal Yacht Britannia, previous home to Her Majesty The Queen.

I was planning on uploading a video for this post as well, but I think I'll work on that for the next post. =)

Hope you're all well! Cheers!

Has Another Week Passed Already?

Guess I'm not too good at updating this blog too much, eh? I really can't believe how the time flies here! Anyway, on to regular bloggable topics!

Let's see, what's happened in the last week? Well, my internship has been going really well so far, I think. I'm enjoying getting to know everyone and getting used to how everything is run around Dynamic Earth. I've gotten to sit in on some classroom sessions, which has been really interesting, to see how kids interact with teachers and with one another. Basically people watching which, as many of you may know, I could do for weeks on end! Getting to observe people, especially in an education setting, is fascinating to me for some reason. This week was spent mostly researching different observation, tracking and interviewing techniques as well as doing some preliminary observation in the galleries at Dynamic Earth. Next week, if all goes as planned, I'll finish putting together surveys and observation forms and begin actually using them to survey and observe/track visitors.

Some of you may have heard about windstorms and snow here. Well, we didn't really get much of it in Edinburgh. There were 30 mph winds for about three or so days and some snowfall that didn't stick. Apparently there were 100 mph winds over other parts of the UK but it didn't get us here! I do have a good story about the first snow... I was on a Ghosts and Ghouls tour with my flatmate and two of his friends on Tuesday night and, just as the guide was telling us about The Plague (known as The Pest in Scotland), it began to snow. We were all freezing already as it was 0 degrees (celsius of course) and now little flakes of ice were falling on us! Luckily we went down into the historic vaults shortly after that so we were a bit warmer. It snowed the rest of that night and through to the next morning but none of it stuck on the rainy streets of Edinburgh. Also, about the tour, it was great! I got in for a discounted price since my flatmate, who works for the tour company, had two free passes to split between three people (we each paid a third of one ticket). I'm glad I don't seem to annoy my flatmate too much. We get along really well and I can't imagine having found a better place to live in with a better person. This is really ideal!

Tomorrow I'll be meeting up with a coworker to see a Mexican store that also sells American food items such as Jiffy peanut butter and marshmallows. We're meeting at the cafe where JK Rowling wrote much of the first Harry Potter book called The Elephant House. It's located on George IV Bridge, near the public library and the National Museum of Scotland, just to give you some perspective. =)

Well, that's about it for now. Thanks to everyone who has commented and thanks for reading! Hope you have an absolutely wonderful weekend!

What a week!

So, I meant to post a review of each day of my internship for the first week but I just got so busy that I didn't have too much time to sit and blog! This is a good sign, I think. The week has been absolutely wonderful, getting to know so many people within Dynamic Earth, but I'll be glad to start this next week knowing I don't have as tight of a schedule to keep. This is what my week was like...

Monday
Meet with: Education Manager, Outreach Coordinator, Groups and Education Bookings Officer, Food and Beverage Manager. Also, attend puppet training as the skills may work into one of my internship projects.

Tuesday
Meet with: Education Officers, Marketing Director, Events Manager, Corporate Sales Manager. Also, read the education folder which outlines the last year's education programs.

Wednesday
Meet with: Chief Executive, Retail Manager. Tour the attraction and attend two classroom sessions.

Thursday
Familiarisation day with Front of House, which took all day and I got to see how the exhibition works from the inside out.

Friday
Meet with: Scientific Director, Operations Director, Corporate Director. Help set up Saturday's club for kids with an Education Officer and have a catch up meeting with Scientific Director and Education Manager.

As you can see, I was quite busy meeting all sorts of fabulous people! This next week I'll be working on designing my projects and continuing to get a feel for the place.

On Friday I went out with two Front of House employees from ODE to get my first taste of haggis. My review? Not too bad, but not too good either. It was kind of bland and peppery and all smushed up with neeps and tatties (turnips and potatoes). For a drink we all had Irn-Bru, which is a Scottish fizzy drink (soda or pop).

Yesterday I went on a tour at the Museum of Scotland called "Scotland's Ancient Flora and Fauna" and was very impressed at the amount of information available about Scotland's past. After the tour, I hung around the museum and took a bunch of photos of my favorite things. Check out the National Museum of Scotland album at my photo site. The captions will hopefully be updated soon.

Tonight I'll be doing some research on how I want to design my study at Dynamic Earth and perhaps attending a movie night at a friend's flat.

Thanks for reading, cheers!

First Day of Work and the National Museum

Sooo, before I go into details about my first day of work, I want to tell you all how absolutely amazing the Museum of Scotland is: It's absolutely amazing! I went in for their Highlight Tour early on Sunday afternoon and stayed until closing. After the hour-long tour, I was treated by a group of Highland dancers and bagpiper performing in the main museum hall. After that I took off to go exploring the various maze-like rooms filled with enough items and stories to last a few lifetimes, at least. One of my favorite rooms was a small, rectangular room which told the story of the Scottish religious reformation. It was here that I found the most amazing item, Alexander Peden's mask. If you don't feel like clicking on the Wiki link, I'll give you the brief rundown here: Peden was a Covenanter in the 1600s of Scotland who was kicked out of the country for having different religious beliefs than Charles II was happy with. He escaped to Ireland using a mask made of cloth, hair, and other materials but was eventually captured and was to be sent to America to work. The American ship captain, however, didn't agree with the reasons that Peden and others were being sent to America for and released them all. Peden lived until 1886 when he died and was buried for six weeks until his body was retrieved from the earth to be hanged from the gallows. (Yes, even though he was already dead.) Someone powerful and present objected to that and he was buried at the foot of the gallows where a memorial stone would be placed later, telling his story. Two years after his death, Scotland became a safer place for Peden's religious beliefs... too bad he was dead by then! Cool story, eh? I'll get pictures of the exhibit when I go back next weekend.

Okay, now, a review of my first day of work at Our Dynamic Earth, also known as ODE... It was fabulous and a bit overwhelming, to tell the truth! Started out the day by meeting with my supervisor, the Education Director, and getting a tour of the backstage areas. After that I went to a three hour puppet training. You read that right, puppet training! A professional puppeteer from Glasgow came to teach us about how to use puppets. It was actually pretty darn amazing how much effort goes into bringing a puppet to life. My main puppet was a shark and my arm got fairly sore because I had to keep moving it as if it were floating in water. Other puppets had to continuously appear to be breathing. Lots of effort here, people! Next up was lunch out at a nearby restaurant with the puppeteer, and the entire education staff of two Education Officers and one Outreach Coordinator. We returned to ODE and I met with the Groups and Education Bookings Officer to go over the current bookings system. Then she walked me down to meet with the Food and Beverage Manager. This was interesting to hear about because it's done in-house as opposed to bringing in an outside supplier to run the food service. My last meeting of the day was with the Outreach Programme Coordinator to run over some of the outreach she does in collaboration with the Scottish Seabird Centre in North Berwick (about half an hour's drive from Edinburgh). Tomorrow, I'm sure, will be filled with even more information to take in and I can't wait! On the schedule are meetings with the Education officers, Facilities Manager, Marketing Director and the Events Manager. I'm really looking forward to Wednesday when I finally get to tour the attraction!

That's all for now folks. Thanks for reading!

The Last Few Days

The last few days have been quite good! I met up with my site supervisor at Dynamic Earth and she gave me a little introduction to the organization and a schedule outline of my first week. Looks like my hours will be pretty consistent: Monday through Friday, 9:30 - 5:30. Works for me! Today my flatmate and I went to a bunch of charity shops (think secondhand/thrift shops) for some retail therapy. I got a pair of jeans, a brown sweater (called a "jumper" here), a fun compilation CD, and some nice work trousers. All of that for about 15 quid (slang for pounds currency). I also got to go to a large Tesco (grocery store, kind of like Safeway) with my flatmate the other night. (Check out the videos at the end of the post.) Also, this morning, I had orientation at the BUNAC office which is only about a three minute walk from my flat on High Street on the Royal Mile. Most of the information was not relevant to me since I already have accomodation, a job, and insurance. I am really glad I went because they did give each of us a reference letter to open up a bank account at a local branch to avoid any hassle for being from out of the UK.

I believe I had my first real culture shock today. While taking a lunch break from our retail therapy, my flatmate and I were trying to name as many foods as we could to see if they were called something different in each other's countries. I asked him about s'mores and he didn't know what they were. Not only that, he had never heard of graham crackers either! After looking up s'mores on Wikipedia, I understand that it's mostly an American and Canadian concoction. And, apparently, graham crackers are also an American food. I never knew any of this so I was quite surprised! The one thing that I'd never heard of was called trifle cake. Wikipedia says that this is a British dessert, which makes me sad that I won't be able to get it in the states; it's very yummy! The small consolation, at least, is that I can make trifle once I return to the states.

Tomorrow I can look forward to going to a few of the local museums, including the Museum of Edinburgh, the Museum of Childhood, the Royal Museum and the Museum of Scotland. If I still have time after seeing all those then I'd like to see The People's Story, the Loch Ness Discovery Center, and the Surgeons' Hall Museums. Those last few will be saved for another day if I don't get to them right away. Can you believe how many museums there are here? The list above is just making a dent! There are even more galleries and historical buildings that I haven't even gotten a chance to think about yet. Wow, what a city.

Finally, here are videos from the trip to Tesco.





Go here to see the rest of the videos. Cheers!

New Pictures and Videos

Today I decided to venture out to the Royal Mile which led me to the Palace of Holyroodhouse (where the Queen stays when she visits Scotland), which in turn led me to a nice little walk up towards Arthur's Seat in Holyrood Park. Go ahead and check out the resulting photos at my Photo Site (and leave comments if you like!) to see all that I got to see today.

Also, please enjoy the following videos that I took today! This first one is a short walking tour from Holyrood Road up towards my flat and the old city boundary, Flodden Wall.



This one is the view from halfway up the Salisbury Crags/Arthur's Seat area.



And, finally, this is a view from higher up where you can see many of the great landmarks of Edinburgh as well as the location of my internship at Our Dynamic Earth.

Happy 2007!

Here in Scotland we celebrate Hogmanay, otherwise known as the last day of the year, along with New Year's. The huuuuuuuuge street party I was supposed to attend last night was cancelled because of dangerous weather (rain and wind gusts up to 70 mph) but I joined my flatmate and his friends at one of their flats for mulled wine and mince meat pies. At midnight we all made a circle, crossed arms, held hands and sang Auld Lang Syne to ring in the new year. Did you know that Auld Lang Syne was written by a Scot? Robert Burns, affectionately known as Rabbie Burns and Scotland's national poet, wrote the poem as following:

Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
and never brought to mind ?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
and auld lang syne ?

CHORUS:

For auld lang syne, my dear,

for auld lang syne,

we’ll tak a cup o’ kindness yet,

for auld lang syne.

And surely ye’ll be your pint-stowp !
And surely I’ll be mine !
And we’ll tak a cup o’ kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.

CHORUS

We twa hae run about the braes,
and pou’d the gowans fine ;
But we’ve wander’d mony a weary fit,
sin’ auld lang syne.

CHORUS

We twa hae paidl’d in the burn,
frae morning sun till dine ;
But seas between us braid hae roar’d
sin’ auld lang syne.

CHORUS

And there’s a hand, my trusty fiere !
And gies a hand o’ thine !
And we’ll tak a right gude-willie-waught,
for auld lang syne.

CHORUS

Compare that with the Anglicized version here (italics show changes):

Should old acquaintance be forgot,
and never brought to mind ?
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
and auld lang syne ?

CHORUS:

For auld lang syne, my dear,

for auld lang syne,

we'll take a cup o’ kindness yet,

for auld lang syne.

And surely you’ll buy your pint cup !
And surely I’ll buy mine !
And we'll take a cup o’ kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.

CHORUS

We two have run about the hills,
and pulled the daisies fine ;
But we’ve wandered many a weary foot,
since auld lang syne.

CHORUS

We two have paddled in the stream,
from morning sun till dine (dinner time) ;
But seas between us broad have roared
since auld lang syne.

CHORUS

And there’s a hand my trusty friend !
And give us a hand o’ thine !
And we’ll take a right good-will draught,
for auld lang syne.

CHORUS

There you have it friends, two versions of one very traditional song. I had a wonderful Hogmanay/New Year's celebration and I hope you did too! Have a wonderful 2007!