- My flatmates: Olive, Camilla, Jenna, Katrina, & Corrine, from South Africa, Italy, St. Charles (IL), Sweden I think, and England respectively (I could be terribly wrong on some of these)
- Cecile from Paris, France--she'll teach me some french if I teach her some more English.(though her English is much better than my pathetic amount of French)
- Rachel from Pennsylvania and her friend Emma
- Kelsey
- and Anne Fisher from Germany--we both want to be teachers
I have been shopping the past few days for an Irish phone to use during my year here, a new laptop--as my hard-drive crashed and gave me the blue (and then black) screen of death the night before we flew out, and generic dorm-stuff. It will be a few days until I get any of these things. (though I have them now, obviously).
Try to catch up the first few days here would simply be a lot of me complaining of how it takes forever to get anything done: shoppes close 5:30-6:00 or even sooner in some cases, everything shuts down weekends, and I kept getting referred to other buildings and people and numbers to solve my internet problem. It finally took multiple days of complaining in person and bringing my laptop with me everywhere to get stuff done.
If I think of some fun stories I have left out I will be sure to add them in future posts--but that should catch us all up for now. I do have internet, I do have Skype, I do have an Irish phone (with free incoming local and international texts), and as soon as I can figure out modules, buildings,
and courses I'll be all set up for this year!
This first week we were told to go to whatever courses looked interesting to us and at the end of the week we register for classes on paper--really strange, but I'll figure it out. In that case, I have class in half an hour and then some shopping to put together an Italian dinner with Camilla, so i'll leave you with pictures taken from my new campus.
~"Cheers!"
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