The second week in Ireland：Home sweet home!
This is the second week in Ireland, but my first week of school. The first night staying in the cottage was a totally different story. I live in cottage 2 with Jordan, Marissa, and Regan. It is pretty nice that I have my own room. Our cottage was small but pretty cozy, we have a little fireplace that keeps us warm. The wind in Nebraska could be really tough, but the wind in Ireland is like another level. Ireland is an island country, so the onshore breeze is so strong. It almost feels like it is pulling you. Weather-wise is not that cold compares to Nebraska, but it rains all the time here, so it feels colder than Nebraska somehow. For the first two weeks in Ireland, there were only 2 days that was sunny. It was hailing for a bit.
We had our first class on Monday, it was Irish History. The professor is from the University of Galway, and she also works in the Galway Museum. She introduced to us about the beginning of Irish history. We talked about how St. Patrick helped to introduce Christianity into Ireland in a unique way, and St. Patrick is actually not qualified as a saint. On Tuesday, we have a Gaelic class. Our teacher taught us some easy Irish in the first class. We went through how to greetings, parting and introduce ourselves in Irish. It was so different than English, and the class was a lot of fun!! Our teacher told us if you translate good morning from Gaelic into English, it illiterately means God to be with you this morning. I thought that was kinda cool to see how religion could affect the way they greet each other. The class on Wednesday is Irish literature, and we had our tour of Galway on Thursday. The local tour guy took our whole class around Galway, and he also went through some history and background story of Galway with us. It was quite fun. The tour started on a history site downtown, and we went to a pub called the king’s head and a church.
After the tour, most of us stayed in Galway. Also, I forgot to mention that this week is the Reg Week which originally was a college activity where college students would raise money for charity events, and it just kinda turn into a week where college students go out and have fun for a whole week. We heard that Tuesday and Thursday are the busiest day of the week, so we wanted to stay to check that out. It was fun, we went a bar and club afterwards.
We had potluck on Saturday in the classroom, and we invited the French students that also lived by the cottages. It was total 5 of them, but 3 of were out travel, so only 2 of them came. I forgot to take pictures at our potluck, so can’t show you guys. T_T
Flora in Europe 