Got it!

so i am officially a resident alien! woo hoo!!! it took about 3 hours of sitting on our butts in a very clinical waiting room, with absolutely no grilling, just copies made of passports, wedding certificate and bank statements, and there you have it, another visa to add to my passport! the crazy thing was that the cabby who drove us from the train station to the Home Office in Glasgow complained to us the WHOLE time about immigrants of the non-white variety and how they are horrible to him and how they are mucking up the country. david squeezed my hand so that i kept silent (it was pouring and he was afraid i would get us kicked out of the cab in the middle of some estate where a bunch of yobs would cut us up with machetes, which seems to happen quite regularly in glasgow), so the only real thing i did day is that "i really appreciate a multi-ethnic culture"... i know lame....
when he dropped us off in front of the gates (complete with razor wire on top), he said "you will be the only white people in there, i guarantee you that!" before he put the peddle to the metal and got the hell out of there.... well, he wasn't far off, there were 2 other white women in there, both with their foreign husbands (one indian, and one arab), which we laughed about, thinking that the cabbie would not be too happy about those statistics! but the next thing was how NICE they were to us because we were both english speaking white people, and how rude all the people -from security, all the way to hijab wearing cashier- were to the non-white people. amazing.... you would think that the glaswegians would take a big clue from how messed up the southern US is and be more open minded, ESPECIALLY after how the scots were (and still are at times) treated by the english.... go figure..... I had hoped that I had left that type of mentality behind when i left the states! i guess teaching (and opening the minds) of the Scottish youth won't be so boring after all!