A Lovely Weekend in Ireland!

I’ve been keeping very busy with classes and travelling and Ive been finding it difficult to keep up with my blogging. However, I wanted to share with you a little about my trip to Ireland! Brooke and I decided to go to Ireland for the weekend because we both have friends that are studying in Galway for the year. I have always wanted to visit Ireland because it seems so beautiful and I come from an Irish background. Needless to say, I had some pretty high expectations about my trip, and I was amazed at how beautiful it actually was. I was only able to go for a couple of days for a quick weekend trip, but it was great. I already want to plan another trip to return next semester! The town was really cute with tons of little shops, people walking around the city, and quaint Irish pubs. We heard some live music in one of the pubs and we also took a bus tour of some of the Irish countryside. Never in my life had I seen so many sheep in one place! Overall, it was a really great weekend and I couldn’t have asked for a better time there.

After my great weekend in Ireland, I had to go back to reality and keep busy with my schoolwork. I recently had my first philosophy paper due as well as an oral presentation. I’ve gotta say that philosophy is definitely my hardest class here. I decided to take it to fulfill my common requirement and it has definitely been challenging (to say the least). For me, I’m not sure if I can really understand it in English so I don’t know what I was thinking when I signed up to take it here. However, becoming friends with some of the Spanish students in the class has really been helpful. They’ve even told me that the professor isn’t very clear in her explanations of things and they’ve been really willing to help me out. It made me feel a lot better when they said that they were just as confused about some of the things that we are learning.  For now, I’m just sticking with it, hoping that it’ll be alright in the end.

In terms of my other classes, everything seems to be going pretty well. I’m really interested in the classes that I’m taking and both the professors and the students seem willing to help me out. For example, I was nervous about asking someone to borrow their notes for class one day but I finally managed to get the nerve to do so. I was very surprised the next day when I received 10 pages of typed up notes for the class (it pays to ask!). At this point in the year, it feels really nice to have a few different groups of friends and to feel comfortable with the people around me. Between the Spanish students we have met in the university and the Erasmus students that we have gotten to know on the trips, I have loved getting to know the people here so far!

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