Four and a half hours in the Immigration office. Lovely. I was there at ten of eight in the morning. We got little tickets like one gets at a deli, I was number 85. They were at number 47. It took until almost 12:30 for them to reach me. Which was good, because AT 12:30 they take a two hour lunch, then come back to work for a mere hour. Not to ( Read more... )

What a beautiful day. We went to the Aran Islands, specifically, the biggest one, Inis Mor. It was sunny and warm; basically the day was made of awesome. Except for getting there and back. A bus, then a ferry, and the bus part was late in the morning, ditto at night, with accompanying bad traffic.

But the day itself was great. I got to see a 3000+ ( Read more... )

I'm feeling better I think! Sometimes I can actually breathe through my nose! YAYAYAYAY ( Read more... )

I'm chopping it off. Finis. Kaput.

I don't even know if I'm making sense. But I'm tired and fuzzy and blah.

At least I feel less homesick! Not sure how that works, maybe feeling like shit helps to block off all emotional needs separate from the basics.

So this morning my living room/kitchen was trashed...what a surprise. At least 15 cans of beer, a ( Read more... )

Damn, where's my sunscreen ( Read more... )

I totally ripped that off from Lynsay.

I definitely have a head cold, which probably isn't helping anything, as my nose keeps running and everyone sounds very far away.  But today was sunny (again!!) so it was so nice just to walk to college. Basically I don't have to do anything for classes except read and show up for them, and do a couple of ( Read more... )

Yesterday afternoon I started crying when talking to my mom via webcam, out of the blue, and got to do the whole, 'I'm fine, I'm smiling' thing, which sucketh.

But today we went to Connemara, despite the rain. Look on Facebook for pics. Anyone who has not taken a bus on the teeny-tiny Irish roads has not lived. It rocks side to side like a ship, and ( Read more... )

Wow, I've been here almost 2 weeks. It feels, paradoxically, like a lifetime and the blink of an eye.

Last night I was hanging out in the Dan's apartment with Libby and Kim, and Conor brought all his friends over. It's an interesting cultural thing, in Ireland, hospitality is generally assumed and not asked for. Even though Conor isn't especially ( Read more... )

So last night was really nice. We went to an International Student Night held at this pub (The Skeff=Skeffington Arms). At first it was just awkward turtle, standing with the Americans I knew, but then we mingled, and met some really nice people. There was Lea, Theo, and Yaonn from France, Tom from Poland, and Lucan from England. Or something like ( Read more... )

So I slept until 11:30, took a quick shower, went downstairs, and three guys were sleeping in my living room. A tad awkward making breakfast while they were sleeping, but hey, I actually live here. Once they woke up, they were nice, and I guess they're friends with my 3rd roommate who I'm waiting to meet. Good to know they're not just random guys ( Read more... )