Winding Down

Well this post will have some pictures of the campus, but its mainly about whats going on in my life right now since I don't have that much time left here.

I only have 12 days until I leave Ireland, and 13 days until I'm home, and I'm at this really weird part in the study abroad experience where I'm transiting from never wanting to leave to only wanting to leave. I still love this country, probably more than I love the United States at this point, and I will hate to leave, but with so little time left all I can think about is school ending, and going home!

At this point I'm just tired of school. Which is normal of course, we all get tired of long semesters, and this is the longest semester of college I've ever had. I'm used to 10 1/2 week trimesters. So I'm quite exhausted at this point. This next week all I'll be doing is studying and writing mini essays to prepare for my exam that is an essay. I have one exam Friday the 13th, which I don't expect to be to difficult and my study time will be about a day and a half. My last exam will be Monday the 16th, which is the one I am writing mini essays for in order to prepare for, and is the exam I am most worried about. So wish me luck, and for all you who pray please pray that I do well, and that my studying will pay off. These exams are half my grade, so I have to do well or I'll fail the class. So fingers crossed my brain can soak everything up and remember it.

I'm also just sick of roommates at this point. Its not that I don't like them, and I'd probably get along with all of them perfectly fine if I didn't have to live with them. I'm tired of the apartment always being dirty, of people being loud. Before I came here I was used to living with only one other person, and we have fairly similar living habits, and I used to my own thing and my own rules. So having to adjust to living on campus with people who don't live like I do hasn't been easy, and I'm just done with living with 5 other people. Especially when some of them come in at 3 in the morning drunk. So it'll be really nice to be in my own apartment, my own rules, and with someone that I can tell do the dishes or take out the garbage and I don't have to worry about offending him, and he'll actually do it. lol I'm also excited to be in my own SOFT bed. Seriously I think I may have back problems after sleeping on these springy beds. You should not be able to feel springs through a mattress in my opinion.

Also the holiday are coming up, and well I need holiday food. Seriously if I'm not going anywhere thats having the normal Christmas food that I'm used to (you know the usual: ham, potatoes, green bean casserole, rolls, stuffing) I'm going to buy it and attempt to make it myself. lol Because I am so looking forward to it. And seeing family, not sure how much extended family, but at least my parents and my sister, which I will for sure visit. So I'm just anxious to get home and see everyone.

So all this combined is what makes me want to go home so badly. I'm bouncing of the walls from anticipation, and the 20th/21st can't come fast enough! Even though I know these next 12/13 days are going to go quickly, and I know once I start back at NCC and the holidays are over I'll go into reverse culture shock and I'll just want to be back here, but until then I'm looking forward to being home.

And since its taken me 3 months to finally take pictures of the campus here they are! :)

 Flag poles to entrance of school

 Main building

 Library

 More of the main building

 My least favorite building... where I fainted at. Just thought you'd all like to know lol

 Foundation building. One of the places I had media law in

 Engineering Research building. I had African lit and linguistics in there.
The rest of my classes were in various places in the main building

 The Plassey House. They also call it the White House

 My favorite view on campus!

 For the few weeks I did archery thats where it was held at

 Student center

 Its a store, i got lunch and snacks here for the most part

 Sports arena

 Reception to my village

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 Where I did my laundry

 Village hall. Only went in there once to get my key

 Leads to a muddy path, that leads to roads that lead to the store

Where I live! Top right window is my room.