Package from home!!

Well hello hello from Cork!

Just came home to the apartment to find a SAWEET package awaiting my presence!  Thank you mom!!! You are the best!  It was a package of shoes (which I will be wearing tonight at volleyball! perfect timing), skittles, sunflower seeds (which are actually really hard to find here!), starbursts, gum, icebreaker mints, and GUSHERS!!! absolutely amazing!  I think it's quite funny to realize how much something that simple can mean so much to me!  It was a great thing to come back to.  Thanks again mom!

Anyways, the last couple days have been slow, but good!  I finished the first draft of my first paper yesterday and started revising today.  We, American students, really forget how structured our classes and assignments are until we get here!  It has probably been one of the hardest papers to write...not at all because of the content but because there are no real guidelines!   Nevertheless, I'm glad to have one pretty much down.  Now, I just need to start on the second paper before this weekend when all the craziness begins!

Jordan and I have been wondering if and when our third roommate is going to show up.  The rest of the American and other international students have been arriving the last couple days because their orientation is tomorrow...however there is no sign of our guy!  We are listening for that knock on the door very closely!  haha!  And speaking of the other international students, I met two girls from near Cologne, Germany last night.  One of them Britta, is now roommates with our friends Kendall and Catherine up two floors, and the other one, Lily, is Britta's friend living across the river.   It was great talking to them about anything and everything for a couple hours last night.  Kendall, Catherine and I kept laughing at how "by the book" their english was!  And, it was also funny explaining certain words/phrases to them that they didn't know such as "cranky" and "an apple a day keeps the doctor away."  hahahaha! Overall, it just got me really excited to meet more international students from other countries! 

Alright, I'm off to make some steak burgers that I picked up at the English market...Fresh red meat for the first time in Ireland! hahaha No joke!!  Here goes nothing!  Then, off to volleyball!  Ill check in again soon!

And remember, Moms are great!