First of all, a very Happy (half) Birthday to my wonderful younger sister! Hopefully Mom is still alive after the gaggle of 16 year olds she chaperoned into the city last night…you should get a medal or something for that :-P Meg, I’d send you a present but that’s a lot of work and instead I’ll bring you an awesome gift in 4 months.
Speaking of which, I’ve been here over a month! A month and 3 days, to be precise. I know it’s cliché, but time is flying by…it seems not so long ago that I was struggling with my internet and confused about where all my classes are. UCC is actually pretty small, for a huge university—the main campus is about the size of Bowdoin’s. There are a couple buildings way off campus (aka like a 20 min walk or so) but I don't have classes there so they don’t count. I’ve settled in rather well, I think: I’m getting the hang of how to shop for myself, where to take the bus to rugby practice, and how to entertain myself on weekends when there’s really not much to do. I also really like the rugby team here…they are a fantastic group of girls who are probably just as hilarious as the team back home, which is really saying something. Classes are going well, though I don’t really have as much immediate work as I did at Bowdoin. However, I do have three essays assigned already, due in a couple weeks, so I should probably begin thinking about those at some point haha. That is a huge difference here, though, because these essay due dates are set waaaaaay before the semester starts and can’t be changed. No extensions, no exceptions. When we hand them in we get a receipt that proves that we turned in the assignment, and we have to keep it just in case someone loses the paper. Kind of scary, actually. I’m surprised to say it, but Bowdoin was a lot more lax (in this area, at least). It’s different here, but I do like it. I think I’m even starting to adopt certain expressions, like “ye” and “craic.” Hopefully by the time I come back I’ll have an Irish accent :-P
So in my spare time I’ve been watching a lot of TV online, or at least trying to. A lot of my go-to sites don’t work outside the US (Hulu, SyFy, Netflix etc) which means I can’t watch some of my favorite shows. I’ve been trying to catch the end of Warehouse 13 but so far I have been unsuccessful. Luckily White Collar is on Megavideo and boy so many things have happened since I last watched! First of all, they found the guy who killed Kate (don’t worry if you don’t know what I’m talking about…), and it’s Dresden! Or at least the guy who played Dresden in the show…I swear he’s been every evil villain in all my fav shows—Leverage, Burn Notice, now White Collar. So sad, because I liked him as Dresden, but so good because he’s a convincing villain.
Rafa, Rebecca, and I were planning to go to a hurling match then make dinner tonight but the epic storm outside made us all think twice (aka we were weak and instead spent the day indoors). Though, I mean, the wind is blowing as hard as last night PLUS there’s rain so I feel justified in my current laziness. Thank goodness for my Nook otherwise I’d go crazy since, believe it or not, there’s only so much time I can spend on teh interwebz. I think we’ll cook tomorrow night instead so hopefully the storm will have lessened by then. Oh Ireland, you and your stereotypical weather.
Slán go fóill!
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