Just thought I'd drop another post before I head on my first travel adventure this weekend :). This week was a busy one in terms of class, and I feel like I practically live in the library, but I am still having fun!! It's Thursday afternoon and I'm officially done with all my homework for the week, and I successfully presented in class today for the first time in Ireland!
In my American Drama class, (my favorite class...) we each take turns presenting on various plays that we're assigned to read for each week. Generally it's two plays a week, which would mean that two people present each class. Today's plays were Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones, and Clifford Odets' Awake and Sing! I chose the Odets play because I felt that I was familiar with him, having been in a production of one of his other plays, Waiting for Lefty, my freshman year at PC. It was helpful to have some background on him and on the Group Theatre while presenting, and I feel that I made the PC Theatre Department (especially John Garrity!) proud. I lead the class in discussion for an hour, and it was interesting the whole time. American Drama is my smallest class, and I really like all the students in it. I am actually going to present again to the class later on in the semester, and I feel like my second one will be a thousand times better since I already have one under my belt.
Last night, Nam, Julia (other Julia), and I began what will become a weekly tradition: movie Wednesdays. There is a cinema right next to TCD with awesome student rates-- two for 6,50! We saw The King's Speech, which I would highly recommend if you haven't seen it yet. Wednesdays are tough for me, as I have a lot of classes back to back, so it was nice to have something to look forward to! Also, Irish movie theatres are WARM! I always bring a sweater when I'm going to the movies in the US because it's usually FREEZING, but I was very comfortable last night. I was very excited by this-- I am very easily amused, as Nam and Julia pointed out to me, but let's just say I appreciate the little things in life :).
Like I mentioned before, I'm off to Oxford this weekend!!! Danielle will get in tonight so we can travel together tomorrow, and I'm really excited. I absolutely love living in Dublin, but I think I'm starting to get a little bit jaded. Walking through Front Gate this afternoon, the initial "do I really go here?!" shock wasn't there... I am used to walking past ancient buildings and through a massive campus that really does look like Hogwarts in the middle of a giant city. I walked right past the Book of Kells today in the library without even stopping, and I think that means I am officially a Trinity student. I'm excited to go to England and come home again to Dublin... because I do consider my flat to be a home away from home. I'm starting to refer to it as "home" instead of "the apartment" in my texts, and I actually feel very comfortable there.
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend, wherever you are, and enjoy the superbowl! I'll be watching it here... I love not having class til 1 on Mondays :).
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