Well, Rag week is under way!

kissing competitions, sausage eating fests, jello and sumo wrestling, mechanical bulls, giant screen blow-up tvs in the courtyard, alcohol for breakfast, gorgeous weather, hypnotists, magicians, chugging yards of alcohol, men in 'mankinis' roaming the campus, rafting competitions down the river, amazing bands, black light/UV dance clubs and good craic! BEST WEEK EVER... (This is a combination of Jeeping, Festival, Serendipity Fair and summer all in 4 days!) mind you I did not partake in the events listed above, just witnessed them!

Let me tell you, this is such a wild experience! I'm not gunna lie, I drank on a Monday night and felt so guilty... 
My roommates wake up and drink a beer (or 8) around 10am then drink 'til 2am again. I am convinced that Irish students are not human, or they have steel livers or something...I was right when I said I cannot hang. I went out Monday and Tuesday nights...and was asleep last night by 10:30. I had to refuel on my sleep, Tonight should be the best craic of all! There is a terrible band playing here called the Rubberbandits...I would post a link for y'all to check out, but they are so vulgar and ridiculous that it would not be appropriate, but thats Ireland for ya!

I am not at all thrilled to listen to the band tonight, but the money goes to charity and the environment should be so much fun! They are having the concert in our huge athletic arena- so we wont freeze...and it is going to be so insane! I can see a whole blog dedicated to tonight's events coming tomorrow!

I have had to turn in 3 group projects this week- thank you lecturers that hate Rag Week!
I am going to take this opportunity to say how much I dislike group projects. It's hard enough to figure out what the teacher wants, but I had to work in a group where I was the only one that spoke, understood and could read English. Yeah. We had to give a PowerPoint presentation to the class/teachers on a Japanese business (reallly?!). That was awesome. As if it was not hard enough for my Finnish, French, Spanish and I don't know where the other girl was from cause she said all of 5 words the entire 3 weeks we have been working on this, for them to understand English the teacher made us study a business in Japan! We needed outside resources...yeah well Tokaibane Inc's website is in Japanese, that went over realllly well!

Oh yeah and Shane or Sean or whatever we called him downstairs moved out apparently. None of us knew, he just dipped out. I still never saw him one time, so he can be in one of my classes or walking beside me and I would have NO idea that we lived in the same house. And Anita (the Irish girl) is on a teaching program type internship and moved out for the next 6 weeks, so there are 4 of us left in the house. It is nice. I'd say its quiet, but it's pretty much always quiet, even during rag week for the most part!

I went to a UV dance Paint party the other night at a club in town! It was pretty fun, my old roommate Ger (whom I talked to all of 5 times in the Orange house) got me a ticket. They sold out pretty quick so none of my friends were able to get tickets. Awkward. I showed up to hang out with this stranger practically, but it ended up being pretty fun! There were 3 different rooms with a different theme in each one...My favorite happened to be the room that is dedicated as the smokers section. So I was not able to spend as much time in there as I wanted to, unfortunately. One whole wall was a waterfall wall basically and the entire thing was black lights so everyone was glowing, and the face paint and glow stick juice that was all over everyone looked really awesome in there...after leaving there I went to another club to meet up with my friends that ended up there. Well it was almost 2 and Icon closes at half-two, and the body guards were only letting people out. So I was standing outside as everyone was working their way out with paint all over my face. Yeah apparently I was the only one that ventured from the paint party to Icon, so I stood out like a sore thumb.

The body guards were swamped with girls begging to get in.
 "Here, hold my purse, I will be right back, I just want to get my friends"
"I do not want to hold your purse. No."
"please, (tears) I just want to get in to grab my friends I prooomisseee"
"No."
They showed no sympathy. I just laughed (to myself of course) as multiple girls begged and begged and used all the different lines to convince the bouncers to let them inside. Once they left he looked at me and asked if I wanted to stand inside cause it was pretty cold outside. SCORE! I was so thrilled. The one girl that was crying saw me walk in and ran up to him and started in on him! He closed the door on her. It was quite entertaining. "I hate my job."


I messed with all of the drunk people pointing at their own cheeks and telling me I had something blue on my face, as if I did not know. I would reply with "how many drugs did you take tonight?" or "How much have you had to drink, I have nothing on me face!?" One guy went as far as to ask the body guard, and since we were friends now, he played along "Sir, she has nothing on her face. How much have you had to drink? I am going to have to ask you to leave." (took his drink) and sent him outside. It was awesome. He asked for a piece of gum, and I asked to sit on his security chair since my feet hurt. We are best friends now. He told me how to get into the club next time for free- might come in handy?

I have to finish up my group project now. This time we all speak English so it shouldn't be too hard to finish up, and we don't have to present, go figure.

Oh and the AAU internship is out for this summer. It is in Florida (awesome right?) but it is not a paid internship and they do not pay for housing or transportation either, so that would be expensive and hard to figure out.