STUDY abroad

The whole study part of study abroad hit me like a ton of bricks the past week. I have been a real college student again, getting no sleep and spending crazy amounts of time in the library. The way our program is set up, with most of the academic work in the first six weeks, was all fun and games until the last week and a half. All of the sudden I was starring at a lot of assignments in not a lot of time. This taught me a few interesting things about Irish college life

1. there is nowhere to get coffee after 7pm
2. there is nowhere besides your room to study past about 9pm
   
3. there is nowhere to buy food after 5pm
   
4. proper citation is nowhere in essay grading rubrics

That all being said its been a very frustrating and exhausting week. I have my last final in about an hour..3 essays on contemporary Irish society. Which in all honesty is actually a much more difficult class than it sounds like.

One good story from this past weekend:

I was at our local grocery store, starring at all the chocolate bars for a very long time..because there is nothing worse than buying bad chocolate. My friends started to make fun of me and get a little antsy because of how long I was taking. See I wanted to pick I good one and its hard with all the unfarmilar candy here..I said something like this "blahh I just dont even know what all these are" I wasn't complaining but the check out lady sure thought I was distrot. She looked at me and my friend and said "oh are you from the states? have you been in city centre yet, by Trinity?" we replied yes and yes. She went "well don't worry there is a store there where you can get all YOUR candy. There is Lucky Charms and the cake boxes."

We thought this lady was crazy..but sure enough we found the store. Candy Lab Dublin and yes it is an american import slash candy store. There were Lucky Charms, Oreos, Twinkies, GRAPE Jelly, and even betty crocker cake mixes. Also the candy section was weird pharmacy themed and you put the candy you bought into pill bottles and picked a Happy Pills label..not sure how I feel about it but the candy was good.

https://www.facebook.com/CandyLabDublin

Naturally they loved us because we were actually American and kept asking us about if we missed all of these things... and then this picture ended up on FB