Orientation

Well, really haven't done much these last two days (thursday and friday). Had orientation which involved sitting from about 9:30 to 1 PM. Not really sure what I did after that but by the time I got home it was about 3. Took at nap till 7. haha oops. It was only meant to be till 4. And ya, we went to a Pub called the Thirsty, because the International Club was having a thing there but it was impossible to meet anyone. Everyone just kinda stayed in their little groups so we left and wandered around town.

People here are friendly but at the same time not. Like at pubs, all they wanna do is get there beer and you better not get in the way. The american's have all been easier to meet. Like last night, two of them heard us talking from across the bar and came over to introduce themselves. We also went somewhere to use the bathroom and the guys behind us, who were Irish, got excite that we were from Washington. We didn't stay and chat but as we left we heard them say "Ya, they're from DC!" Ok, it's also really scary when you walk on the sidewalk because they walk on the left so when we walk on the right it's like a head on collision but they dont move out of the way!! It's just really scary to have someone coming at you.

Cork is really different than what I was expecting unfortunatly. I thought I would be surrounded by green stuff everywhere but this really is like a small city. It woulda been awesome to just take a book and go read somewhere w/ a nice view, kinda like we do at the waterfront, but there really is no where to do that.

This is Oliver Plunkett St. It's one of the two main streets of the town. I live off of this one along w/ Main St. Everything basically looks the same.