School again

Well I've completed my first week back. I still have a bit of work to do from my winter class (all due on Feb 1st) and I already have a lot to do for my classes. I have 4 ITP (interpreter training program) classes and 1 ASL class. In some ways I really enjoy being submersed in the signing every day but I also feel it might get intense sometimes. This is also the first time I have had all of my classes with a lot of the same people. There are quite a few people that I see on a daily basis, which isn't a problem at the moment but can quickly become one under the right circumstances. I suppose it is good training for if (when?) I get into the program and have the same 20 people in every one of my classes. Anyway, things are going well so far. I really enjoy learning about something I know I will need and use a lot for my job.

So I'm not going to make you all look at my gross stitches on here, but I got my gums cut open on Friday morning. I have had an absess for a while and we finally got it fixed this week. It still hurts quite a bit and the medicine they gave me made me really sick (yes, I really did eat something with it) just like when I had my wisdom teeth out. So... I'm sticking with ice and tylenol for now. Like I said, I could post pictures, but everyone seems really grossed out by it.

So instead I will put on some of my pictures from Ireland. Of course I will post some more again later, but since I can't focus too well on my homework at the moment and I wasn't going to sleep I figured I would put some up.

One of the buildings in the center of Dublin (not really sure what building) and the river Liffey in the foreground.
St. Patrick's cathedral
A memorial in Phoenix Park.
This is Abbey, we also spent New Years Eve together. She's pretty cool =] The shirts we are wearing say "The Quays" (the keys) which is the pub we were at. By this time the last clean shirt I had was one that said "London, England" on it so the guy brought out a shirt and I happily bought it and put it on (I wanted a shirt from Dublin anyway).
This is a famous sculpture at Trinity college. I beleive it is called sphere in sphere, or something along those lines. You can tell how much I pay attention to the names of things...

More to come!