After spending the past school year abroad in Scotland, where she learned how to fall asleep during a drum ‘n’ bass marathon, how to appreciate football, and how to stop and look around, Claire Miccio has returned home to the U.S., where she is now both a contributing writer at The Morning News and wondering what’s up with all this American beer and why bother with it anyway.

You can peruse Claire’s many missives from the U.K. as well as her other contributions to here.

Before she went to Scotland and became a lass, she was a young woman who used to wear a red dress, which later changed to blue with white polka dots to match the kneecaps.