Relatively Uneventful Week
Well this week hasn't been too exciting, just had the usual work and "back to school" grind going on. I've been hanging out with the choir kids alot though, which has been lots of fun. After the choir concert on Sunday that I couldn't make due to work, I met up with the kids from choir at a pub with a friend of mine from work, Maciek (pronounced "Mah-Chek" from Poland.) Cool guy, and he immediately took to one of the Irish girls in our choir. They're now texting eachother, which is cute, so my role as match-maker is apparently a successful one. Ooh, and Whitman got the facebook, which has consumed much of my "paper writing" time.
Papers have been coming back to me now from the mid-term assignments and in general I've been doing pretty well on them, except for one class. I had an essay for "The Tudor Conquest of Ireland" that somehow adressed all of the wrong points and I didn't do so hot on it. So now, my mission is to write my final essay and include everything I need to so I can have a grade that doesn't make me cringe in that class. All of the other classes have turned out fine though, so now it's just a matter of getting things together to study. With the exception of my Tudor professor, I think the others have been giving us a break. Why do I say that? Well, I'm your average abroad student: I go to lectures, take notes, and do the readings (though not as much as I would at home.) Most of my friends do much less, and yet we all averaged around B+'s for our papers in one History class. Or they could just write better papers than me, which is also a realistic possibility.
I mentioned texting above, and I think me owning a mobile (pronounced here "mo-bile") has opened me up to the cell-phone culture. Now, it is standard equipment to have one of these in Ireland because landline phones tend to be pretty prohibitive in terms of cost. I hardly ever make calls on my mobile though, I text. It's very handy for keeping in touch with friends and being like, "I'm at kings head. C u here?" or the best "what r u up 2 2-nite?" There's a whole code language that could evolve here. Now, since there is such a strong mobile culture, there are also commercials to suite said culture, and they're absolutely irritating. Ring-tone commercials are the worst, and there are two in particular that are just terrible. One is the "Crazy Frog" which makes motercycle noises and has the animation of a frog with a helmet immitating riding a motercycle. What's the appeal? I have no idea, but the advertisement is shown constantly. The other one is "Sweetie the Chick," which, I'll admit is pretty cute, a little yellow chick singing a song. Once again, these advertisements constitute every other commercial on MTV (which, yes, I've started watching in my off time or cooking time *doh*...before you know it I'll be a fan of "Newly Weds"..God forbid.)
Since the choir won "society of the year" we are in the running for the Ireland competition for "society of the year" in Dublin, so tomorrow I'm going with some friends from the choir for a transportation and housing covered trip to Dublin! Awesome! Dublin's a great city, and I'm glad I'll be there during the day and more coherent than I was the last time I was there during the day (St. Patrick's Day, need I say more?) The train leaves at 2 tomorrow, so that will be fun.
In other news, I'm starting to browse for housing in the Tacoma area, as I'll need a place to stay. Why? Oh, I forgot, I got an internship with the Washington State Historical Society! It's great! Basically I get paid to be nerdy, and it's only 200 hours for three months! My kinda job. The pay is decent too, and I'll probably have time to pick up another part-time job and not be so broke. Then again, I'll also have to pay rent, utilities, find a magic carpet or borrow a car (anyone? ;-), pay for gas, ahh..the responsiblities of really living on your own. I don't know how I've managed to avoid them these past three years, but this summer will be me truly on my own, maybe. I've signed up on roommates.com to find some potential ones, and actually a newly married couple sent me an e-mail, but the rent's a little steep (around $400/month with utilities)...but it's close to where I work (6 miles) and has a gym and pool! Well, I'll keep shopping around anyway. If any of you are reading this and happen to have a townhouse or friend in Tacoma, drop me a line ;-).
Oh, and the election is currently today, so we'll find out if I'm the future President of ASWC or not by tomorrow for me (I think it's around 1 a.m. that the polling stops, I'm not sure.)
Hope all is well with all of you. Guess this week was more eventful than I thought. Now to continue on my "Why the Gaelic Resistance was so Prolonged and Ineffectual"..fun.
Cheers,
-Nate
"Is there a line that I could write? That's sad enough to make you cry? All the lines you wrote to me were lies."-The Gin Blossoms
Website of the Day: www.thefacebook.com If your college is not on it, or you don't go to college, this page isn't that interesting.
Papers have been coming back to me now from the mid-term assignments and in general I've been doing pretty well on them, except for one class. I had an essay for "The Tudor Conquest of Ireland" that somehow adressed all of the wrong points and I didn't do so hot on it. So now, my mission is to write my final essay and include everything I need to so I can have a grade that doesn't make me cringe in that class. All of the other classes have turned out fine though, so now it's just a matter of getting things together to study. With the exception of my Tudor professor, I think the others have been giving us a break. Why do I say that? Well, I'm your average abroad student: I go to lectures, take notes, and do the readings (though not as much as I would at home.) Most of my friends do much less, and yet we all averaged around B+'s for our papers in one History class. Or they could just write better papers than me, which is also a realistic possibility.
I mentioned texting above, and I think me owning a mobile (pronounced here "mo-bile") has opened me up to the cell-phone culture. Now, it is standard equipment to have one of these in Ireland because landline phones tend to be pretty prohibitive in terms of cost. I hardly ever make calls on my mobile though, I text. It's very handy for keeping in touch with friends and being like, "I'm at kings head. C u here?" or the best "what r u up 2 2-nite?" There's a whole code language that could evolve here. Now, since there is such a strong mobile culture, there are also commercials to suite said culture, and they're absolutely irritating. Ring-tone commercials are the worst, and there are two in particular that are just terrible. One is the "Crazy Frog" which makes motercycle noises and has the animation of a frog with a helmet immitating riding a motercycle. What's the appeal? I have no idea, but the advertisement is shown constantly. The other one is "Sweetie the Chick," which, I'll admit is pretty cute, a little yellow chick singing a song. Once again, these advertisements constitute every other commercial on MTV (which, yes, I've started watching in my off time or cooking time *doh*...before you know it I'll be a fan of "Newly Weds"..God forbid.)
Since the choir won "society of the year" we are in the running for the Ireland competition for "society of the year" in Dublin, so tomorrow I'm going with some friends from the choir for a transportation and housing covered trip to Dublin! Awesome! Dublin's a great city, and I'm glad I'll be there during the day and more coherent than I was the last time I was there during the day (St. Patrick's Day, need I say more?) The train leaves at 2 tomorrow, so that will be fun.
In other news, I'm starting to browse for housing in the Tacoma area, as I'll need a place to stay. Why? Oh, I forgot, I got an internship with the Washington State Historical Society! It's great! Basically I get paid to be nerdy, and it's only 200 hours for three months! My kinda job. The pay is decent too, and I'll probably have time to pick up another part-time job and not be so broke. Then again, I'll also have to pay rent, utilities, find a magic carpet or borrow a car (anyone? ;-), pay for gas, ahh..the responsiblities of really living on your own. I don't know how I've managed to avoid them these past three years, but this summer will be me truly on my own, maybe. I've signed up on roommates.com to find some potential ones, and actually a newly married couple sent me an e-mail, but the rent's a little steep (around $400/month with utilities)...but it's close to where I work (6 miles) and has a gym and pool! Well, I'll keep shopping around anyway. If any of you are reading this and happen to have a townhouse or friend in Tacoma, drop me a line ;-).
Oh, and the election is currently today, so we'll find out if I'm the future President of ASWC or not by tomorrow for me (I think it's around 1 a.m. that the polling stops, I'm not sure.)
Hope all is well with all of you. Guess this week was more eventful than I thought. Now to continue on my "Why the Gaelic Resistance was so Prolonged and Ineffectual"..fun.
Cheers,
-Nate
"Is there a line that I could write? That's sad enough to make you cry? All the lines you wrote to me were lies."-The Gin Blossoms
Website of the Day: www.thefacebook.com If your college is not on it, or you don't go to college, this page isn't that interesting.
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