After what felt like a super long summer, thanks to everyone else going back to school, I finally started college last week. After a few days of orientation that didn’t contain nearly enough free stuff for me, I started lectures last week. So far it’s been totally awesome, I’m doing subjects that I actually interest me and most of my lecturers seem good so far. It’s been a bit weird getting used to being in college, hopping on a train every day and having to walk between the campuses of Maynooth for different lectures is getting really annoying really fast!
My timetable is a bit mixed, really packed for Monday-Wednesday then with Thursdays off and a half day on Friday I shouldn’t be too overwhelmed for the first while at any rate. We’ll see though, I could be eating my words soon enough.
After a 9am lecture on Friday morning, I was free for the rest of the day, since my labs haven’t started yet. But it suited me fine since Friday night was my debs night, and with my ineptitude for all things girly I needed plenty of time to get organised. Since half my family have left the country, my house has been a bit empty, and I had to call in the cavalry in the form of relatives from cork, so I had someone to take photos of me in my nice dress!
I had an absolutely fantastic night!! It was great to see people for one of the first times in ages and it was so different this year when we’ve all split up, instead of going back to school together on Monday which is what happened last year. It was nice to see the teachers as well and I had a really great time with my date so all in all a fabulous night, but I’m still wrecked two days later!!
As I just mentioned, a few members of my family have left me. With a dad in Switzerland, a sister in France and a brother and a sister in England, the house has been feeling pretty empty for the last couple of weeks. While I’ve got no competition for the computer or the tv anymore, it’s getting to the stage where I miss people, not necessarily the individuals (although it was weird not having them on Friday night I’ll admit) just the presence of all of them.
Simple things like not getting a phone call when Ais is walking home and bored are getting odd, but she’s happy in france and we do at least have facebook, twitter, our blogs, email, text and the occasional phone call to keep in touch. I’m sure that when she’s home at Christmas I’ll be sick of her within a couple of days, but right now it’s weird not having her and my other sister. I’ve gotten pretty used to not having my brother around since he’s been gone since I was 10, but being an only child is a bit weird.
Still I’m sure I’ll cope. Maybe I should propose having another debs to distract me… Friday was brilliant craic!
