One Month Down!

8 more of these and I'll be home. Not too bad right?

Today has been not so fun though. I couldn't get to sleep until 4ish last night and I woke up at around 11 to get my student travel card. You have to do it before noon for some reason. It only took five minutes though. So now I have that and I don't know how to use it. Then I met up with the girls I just met and was introduced to another girl from St. Mary's. We went down to the train station hoping to get tickets ahead of time. Turns out you can't do that. But it also turns out that it's a good thing you can't because I don't have my student visa. I don't know who to trust about this student visa shit though. When I got my acceptance letters and when I was applying they said that I didn't need one. But these girls are saying I need one. And since Northern Ireland is part of the UK, if I go, they won't let me back into normal Ireland because my passport only says I'm supposed to be here until the 13th of October. That part makes sense--I am for sure supposed to register with the Guarda sometime, but the international office is supposed to take care of that. But we'll see. We're going down to talk to Deirdre tomorrow. She is the international student coordinator woman. She's really really nice. And she is always sitting up very straight.

Anyway. I had three hours of class. This Friday in Film he's showing Casablanca. I've never seen it and I kind of want to. So, I guess if I'm not in Belfast, not ALL is lost. In Irish I learned colors and classroom words. For two hours. It's a long class.

After that I hung around waiting for people to not be in the kitchen. It took a few hours though 'cause Aoife made dinner for her friends. I didn't go to MUCK today because I just wasn't feeling it and my arms are really sore from Monday still and we didn't end up doing much on Monday anyway. But the guy I met on Monday who knows Aoife--his name is Leo--he was here while I was hiding in my room. And it was weird because the kayaking thing starts at 7 and at 7:10 he knocked on my door and asked if I was going. No man.

Anyway, this morning I was talking to new girl about wanting to go to Rome and Prague and all these places. We both don't really have anyone to go with to those places so why not go together. I didn't know she was going to be in such a hurry though. She had me to over to her room to look at flights and buy them. Well, she talks a lot and fast and I was caught off guard and I ended up buying a ticket for the same weekend that Julian is coming up here. It's really not the end of the world because you can reschedule tickets (with a fee dammit). She was freaking out though because she agreed to go with this group of girls to Paris and Prague and somewhere else and they turned around and said they were just going to Paris for a whole week instead. I guess she was crying about it and everything. That threw me off. But I felt really bad, because when I got back here I had to message her and be like oh guess what, we have to change flights just when you thought it was all figured out. But whatever, we changed them. I'm going to be in Rome from November 16-20th. She's having me miss two days of class, but what the hell. This is all assuming I get that freaking visa in time. I think a month is enough time considering they've been going through them for a month as it is.

So, if I don't get the stupid card in another two weeks, I'll be spending my study week in Ireland. Which is totally fine. There are tons of things I want to see here. And it'll be cheaper than gallivanting around everywhere else.

Oh yes. We passed our inspections. Hurrah. I wasn't here when the woman came in.

I made stir fry for dinner again tonight. It was a lot better this time though because I found this soy sauce that is actually "chili soy sauce." It's not bad. I used that and I threw in some red chilies that Adrianna sent me. It was hot and I was happy. They aren't big on spicy food here. And I cannot find cilantro anywhere. Tomorrow I'm making quesadillas.