Finding a new routine

I have now been in Ireland for 17 days.  It doesn’t seem possible that so many days have already passed.  It seems more like a single week.  I have fallen into a new routine of day-to-day life here.  I live in cottage #5 with 2 other girls.  Which mean I get my own room!  All of the cottages are right next door to each other so we are always visiting our neighbors whenever we got bored of the conversation in our own. On a normal school day I am up around 9 to get ready and eat breakfast.  Then we have class from 10 till 2 with a lunch break in the middle.  When we are done with class we are free to do as we please.  Most days Sydney and I take a walk.  Spiddal is the nearest town so if we need anything, like milk or bread we head there.  The only groceries they have in Spiddal is at a gas station, so we go to Galway if we have too large of list.  We have to pay for the taxi into Galway though, so usually we stay in Spiddal.  If we do not need to pick anything up we explore somewhere we haven’t seen yet, or just go down to the ocean.  It is hard to get used to being only a five minute walk to the ocean.  On Monday of this week we found a beautiful little beach that was covered in seashells.  My seashell collection is starting to get out of hand!  When the weekend comes around we are free to travel if there is not a set field trip planned. We have only four weekends open to travel out of the 12 weekends we are here.  Two of them have already passed.  This past weekend we went to Kilkenny.   On our next weekend we have off four of us are going to go to London. This weekend we are taking our first field trip to the Aran Islands. The field trips are packed in tight now.  We hardly have time to get back before we are off to the next one.