Trinity Halls
The ball is rolling. It has begun. Friday I moved into my new home. A bit nerveuse, shaky even (Fia can confirm that) and with lots of hopes, fears and dreams. Hm... actually I'm going ahead of myself now, the ball was rolling even before Friday; it started rolling Thursday night when I was in the hostel brushing my teeth. The girl brushing away next to me heard me and Fia talking and confessed she was a Swede aswell. As it turned out she was also a soon to be Trinity student AND a Hall resident. What are the odds? What's more is that she had a taxi booked to take her to Halls the following day. Convinient to share a cab rather than walking and taking the Luas loaded with at least three bags each. Turned out very nicely. Now I know how small the odds really were, there are three Swedish students (that I've found but I'm pretty sure I've found them all) out of the over a thousand students living in Halls. You do the math.
Upon arriving in Halls at 11 o'clock I realised we were early. I was the only one in my flat to have arrived. No wories though, me and Fia had a look around and I knicked the best bed in my shared room. After checking out the appartment we had a walk around the area and got talking to two guys in another house. We got a bunch together and went for lunch together in Rathmines (which is the closest neighbourhood).
I might make a little stop there just to fill you in on what this weekend really was and what Halls is. Trinity Hall is a student recidential area connected with Trinity College. It houses around a thousand students (yes, it's fairly large!) and it's situated around 40 minutes walk from college or 30 minutes by foot/luas (luas is a public transport train). There are mostly first year students (from all counties except Dublin) and international students living in Halls and this weekend everybody moved in.
Freshers weekend at Trinity Halls is something extra I tell you! Events, get-togethers, parties, meetings and tours and it's all about two things:
1. Getting to know Halls and college life.
2. Making friends.
I think I've done ok in both.
When finally someone moved into my flat I had been talking to dussins people. My God! Always the three questions : What's your name? Where are you from? What will you study? I swear my head is so full with names and places and courses I can't keep track of them! And on top of that they are Irish names I've never heard and extremely hard to pronounce, remember and not to mention spell. But that's another story. I'm starting to believe that the toughest thing in college might not be the studies; it might just be remembering the names!
I can already tell I've been lucky with my flatmates. There are six girls in my flat. All lovely. I'm sharing with a girl from Luxemburg, Clare, both of her parents are from Ireland though so she's a bit confused nationalitywise but absolutely precious. I don't think we'll have any problem getting along.
Across the hall lives Eilis and Grace. Both Irish but Eilis is half Chinese and she's a master of Asian cooking (thank you lord!) yesterday she made us a lovely Chinese stir-fry and I felt like I was back in Asia. Oh, by the way they too are absolutely lovely.
In the last room are Andi (Andrea) and Finn (Finnula). Real good spirited, cleaver girls and so fun to hang out with. We make a good blend and I'm truly comfortable with all of them. We've already bought some groceries together and decided we'll try and cook together as much as we can; both for pleasure and economy. Really I couldn't have asked for better flatmates.
Friday we tried to get to know one another. Then there was the common information meeting and then the party was on. First there were free drinks downstairs in the canteen (which really isn't a canteen) and then there was a welcome bash at Turk's Head in Temple Bar. Real good craic! The only thing is that most of the people is a bit younger than me (about 18) and for most of them this is their first time away from home. Sometimes I feel like they're all out on their first ever party and they can be a bit immature but I'll just cut them some slack and they'll grow up I hope. In college there'll be students all ages so i'm not worried. And again I feel like I've been super lucky with my flatmates.
Saturday was a bit of an intro. We had a meting with the senior warden for our house (81) and then there was a tour of the area and the walk into college. Me and Grace and Eilis went into the Asian Market in town and got the stuff for our stir-fry and some shared groceries from Dunnes before hitting the off-licence for some bottles. There was a party but we decided to have our own party in our flat. Eating Chinese, playning drinking games and basically having a great time getting to know one another. There was a Cailie (can't spell it) in the canteen (traditional Irish dance) and believe my surprice when I realized I knew two of the musicians. Joanne and Conan was there, great catching up with them again. It was all in all a very nice night and we laughed so much my stomach hurts today.
This morning there was an international students meeting which was really good. I found one more Swede, one Norweigan and two Finns. I think that is the entire Scandinavian population here in Halls. We're already planning a Lucia Train for Christmas but we were a bit worried we might fall out over who will be Lucia. Well, that we'll deal with when that day comes.
Now I'm off to meet up with Fia and buy some cutlery and crockery and pots and pans and hangers and tea towels. Right now I'm eating off plates I borrowed from an English guy across the yard, will be nice to have a bowl and a cup too in the morning.
Wow. That became a long text. Conclusively I'm alive, well and going to a toga party tonight (not using my one sheet, might have to go naked haha).
Love you! Next Saturday I'll be having my computer so regular contact starts then, just so you know.
Upon arriving in Halls at 11 o'clock I realised we were early. I was the only one in my flat to have arrived. No wories though, me and Fia had a look around and I knicked the best bed in my shared room. After checking out the appartment we had a walk around the area and got talking to two guys in another house. We got a bunch together and went for lunch together in Rathmines (which is the closest neighbourhood).
I might make a little stop there just to fill you in on what this weekend really was and what Halls is. Trinity Hall is a student recidential area connected with Trinity College. It houses around a thousand students (yes, it's fairly large!) and it's situated around 40 minutes walk from college or 30 minutes by foot/luas (luas is a public transport train). There are mostly first year students (from all counties except Dublin) and international students living in Halls and this weekend everybody moved in.
Freshers weekend at Trinity Halls is something extra I tell you! Events, get-togethers, parties, meetings and tours and it's all about two things:
1. Getting to know Halls and college life.
2. Making friends.
I think I've done ok in both.
When finally someone moved into my flat I had been talking to dussins people. My God! Always the three questions : What's your name? Where are you from? What will you study? I swear my head is so full with names and places and courses I can't keep track of them! And on top of that they are Irish names I've never heard and extremely hard to pronounce, remember and not to mention spell. But that's another story. I'm starting to believe that the toughest thing in college might not be the studies; it might just be remembering the names!
I can already tell I've been lucky with my flatmates. There are six girls in my flat. All lovely. I'm sharing with a girl from Luxemburg, Clare, both of her parents are from Ireland though so she's a bit confused nationalitywise but absolutely precious. I don't think we'll have any problem getting along.
Across the hall lives Eilis and Grace. Both Irish but Eilis is half Chinese and she's a master of Asian cooking (thank you lord!) yesterday she made us a lovely Chinese stir-fry and I felt like I was back in Asia. Oh, by the way they too are absolutely lovely.
In the last room are Andi (Andrea) and Finn (Finnula). Real good spirited, cleaver girls and so fun to hang out with. We make a good blend and I'm truly comfortable with all of them. We've already bought some groceries together and decided we'll try and cook together as much as we can; both for pleasure and economy. Really I couldn't have asked for better flatmates.
Friday we tried to get to know one another. Then there was the common information meeting and then the party was on. First there were free drinks downstairs in the canteen (which really isn't a canteen) and then there was a welcome bash at Turk's Head in Temple Bar. Real good craic! The only thing is that most of the people is a bit younger than me (about 18) and for most of them this is their first time away from home. Sometimes I feel like they're all out on their first ever party and they can be a bit immature but I'll just cut them some slack and they'll grow up I hope. In college there'll be students all ages so i'm not worried. And again I feel like I've been super lucky with my flatmates.
Saturday was a bit of an intro. We had a meting with the senior warden for our house (81) and then there was a tour of the area and the walk into college. Me and Grace and Eilis went into the Asian Market in town and got the stuff for our stir-fry and some shared groceries from Dunnes before hitting the off-licence for some bottles. There was a party but we decided to have our own party in our flat. Eating Chinese, playning drinking games and basically having a great time getting to know one another. There was a Cailie (can't spell it) in the canteen (traditional Irish dance) and believe my surprice when I realized I knew two of the musicians. Joanne and Conan was there, great catching up with them again. It was all in all a very nice night and we laughed so much my stomach hurts today.
This morning there was an international students meeting which was really good. I found one more Swede, one Norweigan and two Finns. I think that is the entire Scandinavian population here in Halls. We're already planning a Lucia Train for Christmas but we were a bit worried we might fall out over who will be Lucia. Well, that we'll deal with when that day comes.
Now I'm off to meet up with Fia and buy some cutlery and crockery and pots and pans and hangers and tea towels. Right now I'm eating off plates I borrowed from an English guy across the yard, will be nice to have a bowl and a cup too in the morning.
Wow. That became a long text. Conclusively I'm alive, well and going to a toga party tonight (not using my one sheet, might have to go naked haha).
Love you! Next Saturday I'll be having my computer so regular contact starts then, just so you know.
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oj vilka krav du har på mig...komma en dag tidigare o allt...jag kommer på söndag smarto...:P
e hur trött som helst så du får inget mail, men du klarar dig nog, vi ses ju om en vecka!:) puss
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