It has been far too long since I have updated this! I am just now starting to get over a horribly sore throat plus time has been flying by since I have been so busy with classes and school outings. I had my first midterm assessments last week. I am feeling pretty confident about them. The exams were pretty short. My exam in Accounting and Computer Applications was only worth 15 % and was 17 questions long. The other test I took was in Business Math and Statistics. That exam was work 20% of my final grade and was only three questions long. At CIT they offer continuous basement unlike other schools in Ireland. This means a lot of classes will have either a midterm test or a group presentation and the final examination. This is more of how my classes back home are. Although, I am still not used to having so much emphasizes on the final test. In two weeks I am presenting my group projects in my other classes and then we are going to have spring break.
Also since updating this blog last I have began to make a lot more International friends. I still have been spending time with my Irish roommates and classmates but I have been attending a lot of the ISS (International Student Society) events. I have also booked my Spring Break vacation with 5 other girls. Our plan is to travel to Dublin and stay there for a few days. We are then planning on flying from Dublin to Edenburdg, Scotland, where we will spend 5 days. We are all really excited and in the process of planning the various attractions we want to visit. April is definitely going to be a bus month, since I also have my sister coming to visit and an ISS weekend trip to Galway. As they say here, should be a real good craic like!
Saint Patrick’s day was also last week! It was probably one of the events I was looking most forward to while here. We started off the day with going to the Parade. I think that we all kind of expected the St. Patrick’s Day parade to be slightly more representative of Irish heritage, so some of us were a little disappointed when we found that to be untrue. In all however it was still a pretty good parade. After that we had an amazing dinner together and then went out to some traditional Irish pubs for the night. As would be expected it seemed every place we went was packed but every where was also very festive, full of Irish music and people dressed head to toe in green. It was a really wonderful night.
After St. Patty’s Day I recuperated and had a pretty quiet weekend. Last week we had an Irish night on Wednesday that was partner hosted by various societies at CIT. ISS was one of them along with the music society, singers and songwriter’s society, and the photography society. It was only 2 euros and we had entertainment, complementary dinner and drink (we even had dessert!) That was a really wonderful night. On Thursday I went out with my classmates for a class party to celebrate finishing out two exams this week. Friday was another busy day as well, that afternoon I went with three other international students and visited the Blarney Castle! It was probably one of the most unsanitary things I’ve done in my life (considering stories from local kids) but kissing the Blarney stone is definitely an experience you have to have if you’re in Cork!
In all this past month has been amazing! I was a little homesick at first but now that I have gotten into a routine and meet some incredible friends, I’m terrified at how fast time is flying by!
