Jury's Inn

I'm currently sitting in an internet cafe in the city of Limerick (1 euro per hour here versus 5 euro at the hotel, Jury's Inn) and am already missing school and home. I guess that's to be expected, espeically if your flight arrives at 5:30am local time and you sleep from 8am till 1pm, only to wake up to relatively bleak weather. Either way, Ireland has been somewhat normal thus far; there really isn't too much out of the ordinary except for traffic traveling in the opposite direction than at home, but I guess I shouldn't be too surprised by that.

I've met two guys and three girls in my program so far, and they seem pretty cool. They come from all over; Phoenix, Chicago, Albany, Worcester, and some tiny town in western Mass that I've never heard of (but that's to be expected). Tonight we have an orientation dinner with everyone in the program, so it will be interesting to meet everyone else. Tomorrow, we have lectures and meetings that start at like 8:30 (eek!) and go until dinner time. We will be repeating the same routine until Wednesday or Thursday, when we actually move into UL. I'm not too psyched about that whole thing, but they can't really let us run rampant around the city, especially with those American students who are not 21 but have the newfound ability to purchase alcohol.

That's really all the updating I have for now...There should be more following my orientation.