Hello all. I hope you are all enjoying the luck of the luck of the Irish accessing my Blog. Life here is just grand so far. Family members will be glad to know that I am dutifully immersing myself in Irish culture. Friends will enjoy the fact that this involves visiting a number of pubs. Sort of.
Still haven’t found any traditional music, which might not happen until the weekend, but my host brother, Pablo taught me some tin whistle last night. I can play a song... almost. In other news, it turns out you can not get the Daily Show or the Colbert Report in the UK (Which is F!%$ing Bull-S#?t) so I may be slightly misinformed about current events for the next few months. I mean sure, I have the BBC, the Economist, and the NY Times, but that’s just not the same. As someone who is factose-intolorant, I need truthiness on a daily basis. Also, tomorrow is our first step dancing class, which will be good so long as we don’t need to learn in male-female pairs.
In financial news, I looked over my budget last night and have decided that I have been spending money rather quickly, so I've also decided to try and spend less money for a few days. Lets hear it for fiscal responsability!
Classes are also good, albeit monotonous. I have started taking books out of the library, but there is a lot to choose from in terms of what we decide to read. I hope that I can narrow some of these lists down when I visit teachers and discuss what my papers will be about. As for outside of class activities, I would really love to visit a school and observe it for a day, just in case I don’t end up being placed there. I think I have a good window of opportunity in that one of my classes wont start until ish- mid- February. So Tuesdays and Fridays are pretty free, except for tin whistle lessons on Tues at 7:30 when school is out any way. Wish me luck.
One quick note about pictures: I have several on my camera, but need some time to figure out how they are uploaded to this website. Probably also an activity for this weekend. Until then,
Peace, Love, and Oscar Wilde
--Alex
Alex its Kit... i'm learning one thing in this blog and i dont know if it is just because your horribly random and a bad writer but if i ever go anywhere...ever... im not going to northern ireland
ReplyDeleteWhat the hell does a famous gay man have to do with your Northern Ireland trip? Reading and doing some sort of report? By the way you said luck of the irish twice in the beginning sentence for thursday the 22. And also let me guess do they say grand in an normal Northern Irelander vocabulary cause now your saying it.
ReplyDeleteThis is Kit still by the way
Well,contrary to Kit's comments Ihave no critique and enjoy your blog a lot, spelling and all.Keep it up.Also tell us more about your host family.omi
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