First 48 Hours in Ireland

I am still definitely adjusting but over all Ireland has been great so far.  I still feel like I'm on vacation or something.  Here is a little summery of the past two days.
I arrived yesterday at 7am.

I wasn't sure exactly how I was getting back since I was delayed a day.  But sure enough it worked out fine!  God is so so good.  There was a cute old man with a sign saying welcome Maria Rygh.  He drove me to the school in his taxi, talking the whole time so fast I couldn't really understand a ton of it.  I finally got to my room at 8:15.

I meet two of my roommates who are study abroad.  So at 9 we headed off to orientation together.  I meet up with Andrea there and it was such a relief to do so.  God's plan are so much bigger than mine and for that I am grateful. (Andrea and I knew each other as kids.  We haven't been in contact for forever.  A week before arrival I saw on facebook that she was going to be at UL, University of Limerick, too.  How Awesome is God?  She loves the Lord and is a blessing to be with!  So thankful.)

I then sat through a meeting till two when they finally let us take a tour and eat.  The session ended at six with dinner.  I was starting to get over being so exhausted I couldn't think.  (I only slept 3 hours on the flight.)  Andrea and I decided to go to Aldis and get some food.  She said it was a 15 min walk.  Well, we got lost.  So it took us almost an hour to get there....I bought yogurt, cereal and milk.  Then we walked back the right way; 15 minutes later we got back to campus.  After that I headed back to bed and slept great!  Until my roommates got back at one...I finally got up and asked them to please go into the other room.  Ugh

I hit my snooze like a million times this morning before dragging myself up to go on the bus tour with Andrea.  The tour was great.  It was on a two story bus and we decided to sit on the top in the open air.  Bad Idea.

It started drizzling like three minutes in to the hour tour.  We made the best out of it though and still had a good time.  We saw old cathedrals and historical sites.

We went shopping this afternoon got a few more things we had forgotten.  After that we went to a pub.  It was totally legit and we were the only non Irish ones in there.  Awesome!  Andrea and I both got the shepard's pie.  Also did you know chips are fries in Ireland cause I didn't?

Tonight we went out and meet some of the other study abroad students at a campus pub called Stables.  Andrea and I were so tired that we came back and watch a movie.  Kinda lame but I'm way behind on sleep still.  The last thing I did tonight was clean the totally nasty kitchen..........GROSS SO GROSS

Believe it or not I'm very ready for classes to start and to get in a better routine.  I'm still not sure what classes I will be taking.  I know three of them - statics, statistics and thermodynamics - but I can't decide if I should take two more or not.  With the three classes it would be a pretty easy semester but I want to graduate asap.  Please free to leave me a post below to let me know what you think!

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart 

from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. 

C.S. Lewis