First Week of School in a New Country

Well, I am sad to say I have no new pictures for you.
That's right, folks. You're only getting plain and simple writing from this lass.

Tuesday:
Monsters and the Monstrous in Irish Literature-
Sounds cool, right? No. We're reading and discussing Irish novels, movies, and television series from after the year 2000 and it's all about the "monsters of society."
It's weird, too, because the whole entire class is made up of study abroad students. Half of which are Asian. Literally half of the class.
And the teacher, Jean-Something French Imbert, has a french accent. However, he's lived here for the past ten years so it has an Irish twang to it. It's just hard to understand sometimes.
The only thing that class is based off of (more than my other classes, too) is one two to three-person presentation and a 3,000 word essay at the end.
Media Writing and Expressions-
One hour a week class. Talking about short pieces and writing. Not media writing as America would think. But different media of writing, as in different ways to do fiction.
It's going to be my favorite class.
All we have for that class is one writing assignment we turn in at the end of the semester.

Wednesday:
Disunited States in the American Novel-
We read to American novels and discuss them.
My teacher reminds me of the Irish version of Mr. Rogers.
History and Literature in Modern Ireland-
This is my core class that only has my CIEE American friends in it.
Its three hours long.
The first teacher talks like an irish, male version of Katherine Hepurn, but with say erm (the irish 'um') and ok?
It's long. But I get two trips in April out of it.

Thursday:
Memory and Identity in English and Irish Literature-
Same teacher as the disunited states.
We're reading Black Dogs by the same author as Atonement. Should be depressing.
But also really interesting.
One 3,000 word essay at the end.

I'm going to Galway this weekend to see the Cliffs of Moher and paaarrrrrttty for Valentine's Day with my new peeps.
That way, the next entry can have a plethora of pictures.

Irish Phrase of the Blog:
What's the craic (pronounced "crack")? - What's up?