First Month in Dublin

Hi everyone!

I've been meaning to start a blog about my experience in Dublin, but I've been so caught up in that experience so far that I keep forgetting to write! So here goes...

I have been in Dublin for about a month now. It took a little while to get acclimated, but I am settled in now and everything is going well. My roommates are great, and we are living in a nice (enough) apartment located in the "city centre." Grafton Street - one of Dublin's main shopping streets - is a short walk away, and our apartment is surrounded by tons of shops/pubs/etc., which makes it easy to have fun exploring the city and difficult to remember to go to class! (Just kidding...)

Speaking of classes: they are going well so far, but the format is very different from what I'm used to. Large lecture-style classes are the norm here, although some classes have smaller "seminars" or "tutorials" each week. Also, final exams are weighted very heavily (100% in one of my classes).

I'll worry about that when the time comes, though! For now, I'm just enjoying the experience - doing new things, meeting new friends, and drinking Guinness (but not too much, of course). I visited London two weekends ago with my roommates and had a lot of fun doing touristy things (Changing of the Guard, Greenwich, etc.), and I'm going to Edinburgh in two weeks.

Sorry this post is so short, but it would be impossible for me to recap everything I've done in the past month (and I'm not sure anyone would want to read all of it)! In the future, I'll try to update this blog a little more frequently.

Slainte (Cheers),
Paolo