Academic Life.

How oddly it may seem I am taking classes here in Ireland.  Although I do explore a lot there is some adulting to be done. The classes are not hard at all and quite frankly they are really interesting.  Sometimes we have homework but not very often.  I have learned so much about the Irish culture.  Classes begin from 10am to 2pm.  Irish culture and Language are on Mondays and Jane Marie who runs the Park Lodge Hotel teaches us Irish while her sister Fiona teaches us culture.  Irish language is fun to learn!  We know the basics such as hello and good-bye; what the weather is like; and hobbies.  Sometimes the pronunciation is hard to get but eventually it gets better.  I think it is bizarre that not many people know or speak the language anymore.  AND it is even taught in primary and secondary Irish schools, and English is forbidden, and still barely anyone speaks it… crazy.  Literature is on Tuesdays and that course requires reading from poetry to short stories to plays.  So far I have enjoyed all of the readings we have had to do.  History is on Wednesdays and that class is always interesting.    We have had several debates and the others who are in my class LOVE debating.  It is quite the show.  Today we had a debate about Oliver Cromwell at the King’s Head in Galway.  Let’s say the debate got pretty heated but surprisingly not out of control like I was expecting.  Oliver Cromwell is basically hated in Ireland, so never bring his name up.   The Kings Head is a historical place, and now is a pretty cool looking pub about Charles I.  What we learn in history reflects a lot on our field trips.  Ireland has so much history behind every stone.