Snow, table quiz and fees protest

Yesterday was a very fun day, it snowed on and off for most of it! Everything is just prettier with a coating of snow, even the construction outside my window. During the afternoon my house mate Katie and I watched the snow falling for half an hour, it was big fluffy flakes coming down pretty hard. Unfortunately it melted by the end of the day but it was really cool while it lasted :)

Also the second part of one of my physics classes started yesterday and the professor is adorable, kind of a mix between Swift and Sitz with a lot of energy. I think that class will be really fun, and hopefully my high energy physics class will begin to make more sense (this class is a prerequisite to it).

Finally the day ended with a Table Quiz for the ultimate team. A table quiz is apparently the way that all teams/clubs make money here, you pay 5 euros to enter then answer trivial questions and the winner gets a prize. They are staged at pubs so you end up drinking as much as answering questions (one of the guys on my team was trying to do a drink a round - 8 of them - but was unsuccessful). It was fun hanging out and also realizing how much I don't know about cultural things such as TV, movies, and music.

Then today I went to a fees protest staged by the college. In Ireland the government pays for everyone's first degree but they want to change that (the government doesn't have enough money) and so the students were protesting. I didn't really participate mainly because even if they do have to pay fees its like 4000 euros a year, less than I pay for a semester, but it was cool to see. They had students from all over Ireland in the city center blowing whistles and causing a standstill. It was fun to see.