Peanut Butter Jelly Time

Today was a fun day of firsts.

Some new things that happened:

1. I found out today that Irish people don't eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. It really shocked me. Turns out my roommate Aine (I think that's how her name is actually spelled) has never had a peanut and jelly sandwich either...just like she'd never had macaroni and cheese before last month. I found this out while I was making supper for myself, so I convinced her to let me make one for her. She was nervous and made me promise to eat the rest if she didn't like it. One sandwich later, she said she wouldn't eat it every day like we do in America but that it wasn't so bad...
2. Then, I found out that she'd never had blueberry pie (my favorite type!!). I just happened to have two slices of blueberry and apple pie in the fridge, so we split that. It was yummy.
3. I went to an Archaeology Society lecture for the first time tonight. It was really interesting--there was a guest lecturer, some man who did his Ph.D. at NUIG. One of my professors, the guy who is teaching two of my courses right now, sat behind me and talked to me a little. It was fun to go be independent and go to something like that on my own. And the talk was really interesting: it was about Gaelic-Irish fortifications before Anglo-Norman invaders in the high medieval period. We've been talking about it for a couple lectures now in classes, so I actually knew what was going on.
4. I (briefly) talked to Brian for the first time ever during a semester at college. Kind of weird, but not bad.
   

I guess that's mostly it for the new stuff. Not gonna lie, I was crazy excited to get Aine to eat PBJ. It was pretty funny. She was so grossed out by the idea of it, but every time I looked over she was taking another bite...

Something else that I noticed is different here is that some students are much more involved in politics than at home. Elections for student council are on Thursday, and all week so far there have been teams for each candidate walking around the school with t-shirts printed saying "Peter for President" or posters telling you to vote for some guy who wants to help with welfare. They even came door-to-door to our apartments last night and gave us candy after giving us the candidate's speech. They pass out fliers in the hallways and give presentations before lectures. It's really intense. I guess international students can vote, but I feel guilty doing so because I won't be here when they take office, and what if I vote in someone bad?!

Classes were the same old, same old. Aine and Emer were outside practicing hurling with two guys when I left for the archaeology lecture, and earlier this month I saw a frisbee on the grassy area too. It makes me think that there are probably lots of parties or events that take place out there once the weather warms up some more. That should be fun...

I guess that's all for now. The rest of my day was pretty mundane or irrelevant to anything I'm sure you'd want to read, so I'll leave it here for now. Good night!