Just Another Day in Dublin

January 15, 2015 Thursday

In Ireland they call “orientation” stuff “induction”.  So today I had my academic induction.  Basically they just confused all of us with ECTS, modules, timetables and a bunch of other terminology that hardly any of us understood at all.  Haha!  It was priceless.  The funny thing too is that everybody says “oh, ask that office if you ever need anything, they are so helpful” and basically they say that about everybody.  But then when you ask for help, they tell you to go ask somebody else, who then tells you to ask somebody else, and the cycle continues and basically we’ve all come to the conclusion that really nobody knows what they are talking about and they just try to pawn off responsibility on other people by saying “oh, they are so helpful, ask them if you ever need anything”.  It’s priceless.  We had quite a joke going on with it today with all the international students.  So funny!  I had lunch with Soes and Jacob today. She is from Denamrk.  He is from Sweeden.  We found a little café in a mall close to our school.  I got a greek sandwich and it was amazing!  It had feta cheese and sundried tomatoes and pesto and I literally thought I had died and gone to heaven.  It was so very delicious!  I loved it so much!  Yum.  Yum!  Yum.  After lunch I had to go back to the school and register finally.  I got my ID card!  I’m official!  Yahoo!  And then I went to Trinity College where I got my student leap card, which gives me discounts on the Dublin Bus.  I started talking with this girl in line behind me.  Her name was Gizzy.  Super cool, super nice.  She had just gotten off work and was getting her student leap card also.  I had time to spare and so did she and so we went and walked around the mall together!  It was a blast.  She’s a cool girl.  We had a great time.  She finally had to leave after an hour or so and I did some more window shopping and then went to institute.  As I got on the bus at the city center spire somebody tapped me on the shoulder.  It was Sarah and another girl!  From the YSA group!  They were headed to institute also!  So I had friends on the bus, which was super nice and random and unexpected for sure.  It was grand!  For institute we watched the CES devotional.  The topic was about making decisions and not being idle with time.  It was a fantastic topic.  I loved it.  I got home about 11 pm again, but my attitude was better about it all and so it wasn’t as bad to get home so late.  Life is grand!

I'm an official DIT Student!  Yahoo!