Wait, We Have Classes...?

hello!

I've started classes this week. It's weird here, we have a week of classes before we officially register for the courses we are taking. It's also strange to be sitting in a class room and not know anyone at all, not even a familiar face. It feels like freshman year all over again, except this time I'm the girl with the weird accent. Although, it turns out most Irish people i've talked to so far have actually lived in Boston for a summer so that's always fun to hear about.

So far I'm taking Marine Environments- which is about oceans... obviously, Intro to Irish History, Intro to Traditional Irish Music, Intro to Spoken Irish (gaelic), and Environmental Chemistry. All my irish classes are with visiting students, but they're interesting so I don't mind. Classes only meet about once a week so my schedule is very lazy feeling. And i don't start until after 2 so I've gotten in the bad habit of sleeping until 11ish.

But let's do a quick catch up....

Tuesday night Max, Amanda, Amanda's French flatmate and her friends, and I went out to the pubs. We first stopped at An Bróg and then made our way over to a pub/club Reardens. It was definitely a bit of a culture shock seeing all the Irish girls dressed to the nine's for a night out. I felt a bit out of place in my jeans but I was definitely not about to wear short shorts with heels and run around with bare legs in 42 degree weather. It was crazy inside, people were drunkenly shoving each other around. Next time I'll know what to expect

Wednesday I walked into the City Centre and just wandered for a while. It was nice to get a feel for the city at a nice slow pace. However, the blister on my heel is not a nice thing... It got a bit lonely walking around by myself though so I grabbed some curly fries from McDonald's and headed home. I stopped at Tesco and searched for microwave popcorn, and found pretty much the only one there.

We went out to Costigan's that night and listened to some traditional irish music. It was a calming break from the previous night and it was fun to be around the Irish pub goers yelling at the soccer football game on the TV.

And finally, today I go to my chem class for the first time... that should be interesting.

I've only been here a week and it feels so much longer than that.