Beth Murphy made us spaghetti, garlic bread, salad (no, our new friend Tom from upstate New York brought that salad), and M&M cookies (because they don't have chocolate chips) for dinner last night and we watched Grey's Anatomy (although they are pretty far behind on episodes, it was still fun to watch).
I had my first bag of Irish potato chips yesterday (although they call them "crisps" or "taytos.") They call the courses here "modules," cell phones "mobiles," and shopping carts "trollies." To "call" someone is to stop by their place, and to "ring" is to call them on the telephone. "Grand" is good, "Lovely" is better, "Brilliant" is better yet, and "Savage" is the best. If you have a class at 10:30, it's at "half ten," and all the clocks are on military time. And doing something for "good craic" (pronouned "crack") is doing something for fun. I'm slowly learning the lingo...
Today I had anthropology with an American professor. All my professors so far seem really really nice, but it's just weird that there are hundreds of people in the lecture halls and that my professors will probably never know my name. We will have smaller discussion groups or tutorials for a few of the classes, but it's still going to take some getting used to; my biggest class at Saint Mary's last year was about 30 people...
The sun was out this morning when I woke up; it was beautiful.
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