Vivi and I decided to go to a flea market across the Liffey yesterday, and what fun! I think we'll make a habit of going on Saturdays when we are in the city. We grabbed some coffee on the way, and it was at this retro-esque building called "The Gran Social". We walk in, and there's a lady selling home-baked goods that even I would eat - I had an apple-toffee muffin that went really well with my americano (that was the kind of coffee I had ordered, for those of you non-coffee people), for only 2 euro, which is really cheap for around here. Beyond that, there were just tables of anything and everything crammed in to every corner. And a bar. That way you can drag your boyfriend/husband along and keep him entertained while you dig for hidden treasure. It's all local people selling things they've made or stuff they want out of their house, from furniture to jewelry to books to appliances to clothes to art to you name it. The best thing I found was a barely used printer/scanner/copier with brand new ink cartridges for 20 euro. Vivi found a hand blender she'd been looking for, and for only 3 euro. We met some interesting people along the way. Then we went for sushi. Not bad, and not too dear to the pocketbook, either. We get student discounts at just about any restaurant in the city. Very useful indeed. We were going to go hiking today, but the weather isn't that great. So I am going to try and get some work done today so we can go another day this week.
Our first module of the biodiversity and conservation program (or programme as I've been spelling it the last 3 weeks) is over! Our class (sadly now down to 16 students) decided to go out to the pub Friday after handing in the remainder of our work to celebrate and get to know each other a little better outside of the university setting. I (now being 25, and alway having been an old soul that likes to go to bed earlier than her counterparts) knew it wasn't going to be a very late night for myself, but the best part was watching the 22-year olds fresh from undergrad realizing how tired they were by 11 o-clock after the week of work we put in. A lot of them procrastinated until Wednesday, or even Thursday, afternoon to get started on a stack of assignments due Friday, so they had a few late nights in there. A few professors have asked me what I think of the workload here, with the direct implication that they expect me to say it's a lot more work than I'm used to, but Wittenberg really prepared me well for this one. I know some of it was my own doing, what with having 2 majors and taking extra courses a few semesters, but I'm not finding it to be that much work. (And my grades are saying the work I am doing is good, too - phew.) Also, despite all my griping about some of the assignments I hated or thought were trivial in the biology department at Witt, a lot of them prepared me better than I expected. Particularly learning how to efficiently summarize scientific articles in 1 page for my senior seminar. Guess I owe Dr. Yoder an apology.
Our first module of the biodiversity and conservation program (or programme as I've been spelling it the last 3 weeks) is over! Our class (sadly now down to 16 students) decided to go out to the pub Friday after handing in the remainder of our work to celebrate and get to know each other a little better outside of the university setting. I (now being 25, and alway having been an old soul that likes to go to bed earlier than her counterparts) knew it wasn't going to be a very late night for myself, but the best part was watching the 22-year olds fresh from undergrad realizing how tired they were by 11 o-clock after the week of work we put in. A lot of them procrastinated until Wednesday, or even Thursday, afternoon to get started on a stack of assignments due Friday, so they had a few late nights in there. A few professors have asked me what I think of the workload here, with the direct implication that they expect me to say it's a lot more work than I'm used to, but Wittenberg really prepared me well for this one. I know some of it was my own doing, what with having 2 majors and taking extra courses a few semesters, but I'm not finding it to be that much work. (And my grades are saying the work I am doing is good, too - phew.) Also, despite all my griping about some of the assignments I hated or thought were trivial in the biology department at Witt, a lot of them prepared me better than I expected. Particularly learning how to efficiently summarize scientific articles in 1 page for my senior seminar. Guess I owe Dr. Yoder an apology.
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