Thursday, September 4, 2008

Galway Center

So, I wanted to correct myself from my first post. When talking about the Irish language, if you are speaking in English, you refer to it as "Irish" not "Gaelic" you only call it Gaelic when you are speaking in Irish. Confusing? From what I understand the locals do not like it being called Gaelic except when being used in the language itself. 

Today we went through sooo many orientation sessions. I think our orientation at RWU was a little easier to deal with. It's strange to feel like a freshman again. I'm learning around the campus little by little. I'll miss the free printing @ RWU (it's .08 euro per page here, that's about 16 cent or a little less). 

Classes start Monday. The enrolling process (what we call registering) is very different here. Students don't pick their classes until the first day of classes. We decide what classes we want after attending it and deciding if we liked it. 

Other than that things are going well. I started to walk around Galway city center and it is very beautiful. And then a group of us hung out at the college bar and sang karaoke (I know shocking, I was actually coerced into karaoke, and yes...it was after having a pint of hard cider lol).  

Till I write again,
Cheers


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