1 Month

I have officially been in Ireland for one month, and things are finally fitting together and getting going. Now I know enough people to start going out and doing stuff not by myself and have spoken to a couple people in my classes (social life apparently doesn't start in class here). Overall, I've been playing lots of frisbee, going to classes, going to pubs with my house-mates and their friends, reading and continuing watching Gilmore Girls. Also, right now its 'snowing', pretty awesome (to me at least), the roofs are white, but its not actually snow, more like itty bitty hail the size of those Do Not Eat beads they put in shoes, but its still fun, and maybe real snow will come :)

In more detail, here's what I've been up to. Lots of frisbee, we practice mondays and wednesdays with the whole team and then the girls team has extra practices since we have a competition at the end of february. We practiced/scrimmaged for 2 hrs on friday (in cold windy rain) which was actually a lot of fun despite me not being able to feel my hands or toes by the end. Then on saturday I played in an indoors tournament that was just for fun, kind of pick up with various frisbee teams in Dublin. My team got 5th of 6, but we had a good time, and I'm learning a lot about indoor frisbee which I had never played before. And then the frisbee weekend wrapped up with more women's practice on sunday, we practiced for about and hour and a half then scrimmaged the DCU team, which was apparently less the DCU team and more the Ireland team (we lost pretty badly but did manage to score 2 points at the end). I've been learning about how to play outside when its cold and muddy - cleats (called boots here) are a must; I didn't think I would need them but was convinced otherwise about 30 seconds into playing without them. Also, leggings and underarmor are your friend. The first tournament is in Limrick in two weeks, and should be a lot of fun!

Last week was the first week that I had all of my classes (well, the ones that have started so far, I still have 2 that are in the next term and one that starts halfway through this term, Trinity is weird). I like all of the classes so far, the intro to geology is a little boring right now but it should get better when we get to less basic topics. Complex analysis won't be too bad by virtue of the professor deciding that he must explain everything in great detail, so even though its my first proof-based math class I'll be fine. And physics is pretty interesting, the class that I've already taken is about to end and my condensed matter class start which I'm looking forward to. My only class that assigns homework is geology and that is easy so all I have to worry about is reading, and then the exams at the end of the year. It's nice now but we'll see come may :P

Well, thats a lot more than I thought it would be as I haven't done much besides frisbee and reading lately but I guess my life is more interesting than I thought :)