I'm currently doing my mapping project for my dissertation next year. I'm at the Isle of Rum, Scotland for 5 weeks. I've been here for about a week now and within a day I'd been bitten by so many midges that my face and arms were covered in bites. I'm taking allergy tablets now and the bites are nowhere near as bad as they were but I'm still getting fresh bites which are really hurting.
I imagined that the biggest challenge would be the mapping, but it seems to be managing to survive on this island. It's such a beautiful place and I feel bad not enjoying it as much as I ought to but there were so many midges trying to get in tonight that, from a distance, they almost looked like stars through the window.
The locals are so friendly and they've let us stay in an old static caravan which is so much better than the tent I thouht I'd be spending 5 weeks in. I don't think I'd have been able to cope of I'd had to stay in my tent.
I'm really struggling to sleep at the moment. The sun doesn't set till nearly midnight and then its light again by 3am, which doesn't seem to be helping. I also keep waking up because the bites are itchy. I know that this is probably one of the hardest things I will have to do as a student, which gives me some sort of hope for the future. I just really hope that I manage to be able to focus well enough to get my work done. Wish me luck.
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