Leprechauns and cheeseless pizza

That is a sunrise from a couple of mornings ago and before you tell me that I'm crazii, just know that it was at 8:30am not at like 5 or 6am.
I thought it was important to note that my apartment is kickass.

So quick update on my first biking day.
Looked up directions online this morning. Followed directions all the way past St. Stephen's Green and began following the signs towards N11, the main highway that would take me to UCD. So far, so good. However, I see some random signs and some confusing road set up, not sure what to do at this point, so I bear left, not knowing any better. And of course, end up on the wrong road. Now at this point, I had felt pretty proud of traversing all the one way streets in Dublin and am almost in the outskirts of the city headed towards Donnybrook, which a small suburban town next to Dublin, However, the leprechauns must have been out and about and making me confused. But I luckily outsmarted them and ran across a stranded biker who was able to point me in the right direction. Which was back the back I came and going left which was actually the right that I should have taken instead of the first left. But once I was on the right path, I made it to school okay with 15 min to spare.

The right home was cold, wet, and cold. I was muddy and wet by the time I stepped through the door which was unpleasant. But on the way, I almost got creamed by a couple of buses, side-swipped by a taxi, breezed through an amazing puddle longer than 3 of me tall, and almost fell on the sidewalk and onto my face. But on the plus side, all of my lights are in good working condition and it was wayyy easier to find my way home than it was to find my way to school.


And a recap on today's classes:
I found that I am a little intimidated to speak in class or participate. I'm not confident enough in the culture to keep up with alot of it, unless it deals with alot of Americanized type things, which isn't a whole lot. Alot of the students seem quite intelligent and the teachers don't seem to appreciate when students ask questions. I'm not sure I'm gonna like this. It will definitely take some adjusting.

Business Excellence wasn't required this morning apparently, teacher didn't even show up. Hung out with my new friend from Ottawa, Canada,whose name is Brendan. Ate an orange.

Negotiation and Conflict Resolution was all right. Will be alot of reading. But on the bright side, I found out that my friend Mary is in this class, didn't know it. So I was able to enjoy that class and get to know a girl named Natasha who is from Egypt and studying at BU and now studying abroad here.

Lunch with Mary, pizza and a hard chocolate cake...not the best 5 euro I've ever spent. And then did some chillin' in the study room on the first floor of Quinn.

Best thing I learned in Management of Innovation and Change was that getting arrested counts as an excuse for not having your work turned in on time. I love this country. Also, this might be my favorite class. Really cool teacher who is supposed to be Irish but sounds American. There are no other Bent kids, I'm flying solo and learning about technology surrounded by a bunch of senior UCD business students. And the majority of the class is American. I might just make it after all.