So the first week had a very nice schedule: International Student orientation on Monday and Graduate student orientation/registration on Friday.
Monday: International student orientation was interesting with several of the directions of the program making some hilarious comments about Irish or in Irish. Meet some very nice people, some how the majority of them were musicians, but some nice Canadian med students as well (yes, they do say "eee" all the time and I had to control my laughter each time). They provided a very nice little lunch/dinner for us at one of the pubs on campus which had some pretty good food. By the time that let out most of the stores were closed so no food or sheets for another night. I love being an International student. Ha
Tuesday-Thursday is a bit of a blur between shopping for a bunch of random household type things. I got to meet another one of my housemates on Thursday evening when he came home drunk with friends and woke up half the side of the complex. I laughed at this situation, however Rachel was a bit less enthused by the situation. I think it all came down to her missing chocolate bars. The big adventures for these few days was getting a hold of loan checks, luckily my Plus loan came through on time, however the stafford loan had not. Meaning I was able to pay for the tuition for the semester, but not housing. Luckily, people in the International office are amazing flexed their muscles and just relayed that my money would come soon enough to my housing people.
Friday: Post-graduate orientation which was a relief since all the other students around were first years. It was nice to see people that didn't look like they were in my high school band room last year. The morning was comprised of a tour in which the other student that showed up in my program (yes, there were only two of us) opted not to go on the tour since he just graduated with his BA here last year. So I had a private tour of the campus which is truly beautiful. Despite the dreary weather it was a nice time trying to understand my tour guide, who was a second year boy from Cork. You will hear a lot about people from Cork and their accents around here, mainly because Aiden, our lovely loud roommate is a Cork boy. After the tour I was provided with food by the Irish World Academy always a big plus for a school in my book. We had a short introduction of professors before we had a sit down between programs. Since I was my program, I chatted with Colin the new course director from UCLA. It seems as though we would get a long throughout the course of my study. He is a very easy going guy with a keen ideas and perceptions. I did get my timetable (schedule) orally which seemed amazing, four day weekends every week (I forgot the most important part when and where for the first class)!
The weekend was a blur most likely spent finding more places to buy the things that I needed or wondering around trying to figure out Limerick. I did take it a bit easy since I had class all of 3 days away.
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