Thursday, 27 January 2011

Update

It's been a while since I posted so here is an update. The last two days I've had looonnggg days of classes! Instead of having a class twice or three times a week most of your classes are one day for 3 hours, but no worries they give you a 15-30mins coffee break. But class isn't the exciting part here just the most confusing part since two of my professors are Irish and they speak with a heavy accent and for some reason they put the letter u in random words ie. colour(color) making there lectures a little hard to follow.
Other then the class stuff, the landscape your surrounded with here has just been breath taking to me. The people here are so nice and laid back. The locals are nice as can be and are always willing to help you out. The party life is continuous! I haven't had a night yet where we haven't enjoyed drinks and going out! Here you either walk everywhere or take public transportation, which a lot you end up walking cause the public transportation adds up quickly.
Also, I've learned a ton of words here that are different:
Chips=french fries, jam=jelly, jelly=jello, grand=awesome(they don't use awesome), craic=fun, crisps=chips(which all there chip favors include meat somehow like smokey bacon, rib, others are cheese and onion..they have no similar favors here except pringles is here and they have original and sour cream and onion), lead=leash, litter=trash, toilets=bathrooms(which everywhere you go they aren't heated-its crazy), jumper=sweatshirt, trousers=pants, pants=underwear, wee=a little bit...the list could go on forever, but none the less I am having the time of my life and will be traveling this weekend to Donegal a county here to see more amazing nature and a incredibly old castle. I feel truly blessed to be able to have this experience and to see/appreciate the world. It felt amazing today to take a run to the beach and just be blown away by the scenery I'm surrounded with, I also for the first time today put my hand in the ocean here and touched the grass, which doesn't seem that amazing but the grass feels completely different and I think it just comes down to appreciating nature.

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