I am rapidly set to have more Thanksgivings in Ireland than I ever had at any point while living in America. Last Thursday, Annemarie hosted a Thanksgiving at her house for me and her Irish rooommates (and one of her roommate's friends). It was, in a word, lovely. I am not the biggest Thanskgiving food fan in the world, but she had Stove Top stuffing her mom had sent her and she made a turkey and we found apple (sadly, no pumpkin) pie in a store. It was really fun and totally delicious and awesome. It also looks like I'm set to have two more. On actual Thanksgiving, I'll have class (obviously) but my classmates want to take the other American in my program and me out to a Thanksgiving lunch. Something tells me we'll search for a long time and end up eating turkey sandwiches in a pub, but it's a really nice thought of them. And then on Saturday I'm headed to Londytown for my cousin's Thanksgiving! SO excited to go back to London. I fully intend on going to the Landward (the apartment building I lived in while studying abroad) and enlisting some random passerby to take my picture in front of it. I also fully intend on eating schawarma and I'll be able to have CHIPOTLE. Thank god I googled Chipotle that once and discovered it now exists in London.
Anyway, Saturday was Annemarie's birthday! We went to a matinee showing of Harry Potter and it was AWESOME. I already want to see it again. The best part about breaking the 7th book into two movies is that they really didn't have to cut anything. I'm biased, though - the movies could be the worst things ever and I'll still think they were about the best thing I've ever seen. It was so good. Then later that night, we went out on the town for her birthday, which was also a great time, one of the best nights I've had here so far. So overall, it's been a very successful week!
Now I'm just trying to kind of keep my head down and grind out the last of my papers, exams, etc. I have a huge paper due this week that I'm actually really worried about, but I have to convince myself at some point to stop editing it before I edit it so much it turns completely crap and totally unrecognizable. I'll also be home three weeks from today! I can do this, I can do this.
In other news, ND plays USC next Saturday, which means it's time to break out my favorite picture of all time:
In conclusion, I am so close to surviving semester #1 of grad school. So close! miss and love you all...eyes on the prize.
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