 Hi everybody and welcome to today's video. So this is going to be a part two to the packing video that I posted about four months ago. This video has like not like okay like it's like blown up for me like in the past like a week or like two weeks or so which is just it's very exciting. So I figured that I should do a part two because people have like literally been asking for it which is not a sentence I say often. If you want to subscribe that'd be cool. Yeah so I have been living in Scotland for three months and this video is going to be like a follow-up. If you want to know exactly what I packed not that hasn't changed like all my stuff is still over there and what I will say the basics of that video still really hold up. However if you're looking for like some more nuanced tips and tricks stay for this video because I have learned some things. Okay in that video basically what I did is I created a capsule wardrobe and I explain it like further in detail. You can like see everything that I packed and what I will say is this worked out so well. Now that I've lived in Edinburgh for a little while I brought too many shoes so and everyone told me this they were like just spring like four pairs of shoes like you don't need it and I wish that I had listened. The shoes that I brought to Edinburgh were hiking boots, waterproof like Steve Madden boots, running shoes, adidas sneakers for like actual like walking around and then I brought my penny loafers which I swiftly brought home because I had no use for them. The thing about Edinburgh is like you literally walk everywhere if you are like me and you have like some fun shoes that you're thinking like oh like I could you know potentially wear these to a party or something don't bring them. Everybody in Edinburgh has the same pair of Doc Martin boots and I'm not saying you should be like everybody else however everybody wears a Doc Martin style waterproof boot everywhere because it's just functional. I had I don't have Doc Martens but I had this pair of like Steve Madden black boots that I have literally I've probably had them for like eight years at this point. I got them when I was like a sophomore in high school. I was 16 how old was I? Oh my god was that eight years ago? I'm literally so old that's terrifying but yeah so I definitely recommend a waterproof boot and that is just going to be your dressing up shoe so if you're like a person who likes to get really dressed up like I totally I see you I feel you I hear you. However the amount of walking that you do and if you're only going for a couple months I really just recommend bringing that one shoe and just sort of like trying to like pair some things that you know you can kind of like dress it up with and dress it down unless you're going to like a like a fancy dinner which like I actually wore my boots to a fancy dinner um and I was under dressed however I just boldly made the choice to be under dressed because I also didn't have an actual dress to wear to it but I did bring like a little like plaid dress and I got some tights so it like kind of worked out. These are the shoes that I would recommend that you bring. I personally I brought my hiking boots because I knew that we would be going I knew that I personally wanted to go into the highlands and like I'm hoping to go more into the highlands this um coming semester and hiking boots are just a good thing for that because it's raining and like the amount of mud that got caked on my shoes from that day like it's actually just it's crazy so waterproof boots which I mentioned before I personally brought running shoes sneakers because I like to go to the gym and yeah I think maybe if I was going for no I think I would have still brought my sneakers but yeah if you're not a gym person and you know that you're not gonna bring them like need them don't bring them like just just don't be like oh like when I get there like no when you get there if you're only there for like three four months you're just gonna want to go and like live your truth and just like be honest with yourself so if you want to like swap out if you're like more like a going out person swap out your sneakers for like a pair of like fun going out shoes so just like knowing your own personality I think is going to be key when you're packing your suitcase and if you like both I would say maybe just borrow some fun going out shoes when you're there because that's also an option just like make some friends who have cute shoes yeah so I brought my pending lovers home so now I only have four pairs of shoes in Edinburgh and like that is more than enough yeah it's it's really fun okay so number two thing is I didn't include my rain jacket in that video and I talked about my rain jacket later because like I had actually like I had ordered one to be brought to Edinburgh but then it never showed up in time but I got my rain jacket from this brand called Fatface it is the best jacket in the whole world like I would recommend it to everybody I don't know the exact fit and style but I will link it down below or I will link like a similar jacket below and the number one tip that I'm going to give you about your rain jacket is look for a waterproof jacket I didn't really know the difference between a water resistant jacket versus like a waterproof jacket I think you want a waterproof whatever is the stronger one you want that one and this was such an awesome purchase so another mistake that I made which I can't personally undo I'm just gonna have to live with the consequences but I brought a leather backpack to Edinburgh which I'm probably ruining it because it gets rained on all the time and I'm actually surprised that like my computer still works I have just really timed it correctly so this is what I'm gonna tell you so you either want to get like a really big like plastic bag for your laptop because that's waterproof you know because that is one thing that I just didn't think about for some reason but when you're walking around you make sure your backpack is waterproof but looking for like a waterproof bag or like if you have like a like an old like gym drawstring bag if you want to bring that with you to keep your things dry I would absolutely recommend that you do that okay number three tote bag culture is rampant everybody has a canvas bag it's very funny like I have I've had a canvas bag for years like I would like take like to babysitting or like you know to the grocery store like in Charleston but like they're like kind of trendy over there like people have like cute ones that they wear it in the city so that's definitely like a big essential I would say especially if you're like going grocery shopping or just like regular shopping it's nice to just have like a little bag like that I have one for like my laundry which works out really well the other tip I'm gonna give you and I didn't I don't know if I actually mentioned this in the video but we're gonna get a little TMI I brought so many like undergarments and like undershirts under t-shirts which came so much in handy because in my building okay are you ready for this there's like 500 600 people who live in my building there are three washing machines I did not live in a building that big my freshman year at college at Charleston and we had at least eight washing machines I think and even then it was still always busy and it was free so what I will say is like you're not going to want to do laundry like you're just going to go live your truth I probably I don't have to do laundry that often because I packed all of those like underneath essentials and yeah when you are traveling and you're going places like the fact that like I it's very hard for me to run out of underwear it comes it's very useful but that that is my tip that's truly my tip another thing just like talking about like what people wear to class and things like that so half of my classes last semester pretty much all of my classes my lectures were online but then I had like some tutorials downtown so I would kind of like get dressed up for class what I will say people dress up for class in US school like I would wear leggings and like a sweater to class and like that was dressing up I sometimes kind of felt weird I'm like oh my god like I'm literally wearing a ball gown and in the UK like people do dress up more um I will say so I will say if you are American or North American like I actually don't know I don't know what like the vibe is in Canada like do you guys do athleisure I feel like maybe but I could be wrong because there's there's so many things that I learned about Canada this semester it's really wild yeah I will say like you're athleisure you know live your truth and if that's what you like to wear like there are some days where I just wear like a legging and like a big sweater to class and I feel completely fine in that however like I would say people don't really like I would not wear sweatpants to class you will be judged so I would bring like more like real pants and things like that because that was one of like the biggest things that I was worried about when I was going there but then I was like oh like maybe this is overkill which is gonna sound crazy if you're actually from Europe but I was like four pairs of pants like like who am I the queen like just be comfortable however like maybe leave some of the sweatpants and athleisure at home still bring it like to go to the gym and stuff but that's not really the vibe yeah so I hope that this was helpful thank you so much for watching and if you want to see more content about like study broad like vlogs you know what my experience is in Edinburgh like please give this video a like and subscribe because I post new videos every Friday and yeah leave any comments if you have studied abroad and you have some tips please leave them down below