It’s almost like we never left, only we don’t know anybody and plastic bags cost 22c.

Saturday September 8, 2007

6:50 pm GMT

Day 5

It’s about 7:00 pm right now and we’re all watching college football on Josh’s ESPN Gameplan (fortunately you can sign in more than once so Rory can watch the OU game, Josh can watch the Michigan game (although why would you want to), and Liam (McLovin) and I can watch BC in a half hour.

We all just got back from foodshopping. Unfortunately, we all didn’t know that the rest of us were also going, and we went to 2 different places and ended up with 5 loaves of bread, 8 liters of milk, 4 dozen eggs and 2 big bottles of cooking oil.

Dublin is great so far (but expensive). I got my class schedule (One each class on MWTh, 2 on Tuesday) and got all of the classes I requested which is going to be a big help. There are 76 American students in the Quinn School (The UCD undergrad business school), but we’re pretty spread out in the classes (at least it seems that way so far – classes don’t start until Monday).

Ricky and I were lucky enough to find a church to go to tomorrow morning, so I’ll try to write again after that to let you know how it is.

As for my foot, a day of sitting inside watch the first 4 episodes of the OC was good for it, and it feels better now than it has since I’ve been here. Yesterday was probably the worst for it, since we were walking all around campus for orientation. I gave in and went to the doctor on campus who gave me a prescription for anti-inflammatories and sent me to the hospital to get an x-ray. I naturally walked the exact opposite direction from where I was supposed to go, and the guy who finally gave me directions when I got to where I was not supposed to be got quite a laugh out of the thought of an American hobbling around Dublin trying to find the hospital to get an x-ray for a potentially broken foot (it’s not, luckily. Or as the doctor put it, “That’s one hellofah sprain you’ve got yourself there.) So I backtracked and walked the correct mile and a half to the hospital, got the x-ray, hailed a bus, got off when I saw the canal, and walked about another 3 miles back to the house. Despite the foot, it was a perfect day for a walk along the canal, and I ran into 4 fellow lost Americans from the UCD business program – one of them was from BC – so that worked out okay.

All in all it’s good so far. I’ll write more after classes, but for now the frozen pizzas just game out of the oven and the game’s about to start. More updates later.

7:16