Settled In

I'm sorry it's been so long since I've posted.  At this point, I'm totally settled in to life here, and so I just haven't really been able to think of anything to post.  In the past two weeks, I've managed to do a lot of reading for class, watch a lot of tv, shop for groceries, cook...not exactly exciting stuff.  I mean, I love cooking, but I don't think it's the most interesting of things.  Also, our kitchen is GROSS.  So, cooking is not as fun as it is at home.  Just a bit more necessary.  I did go to my first ball on the 24th, so I guess that's something.  It was fun.  It was held at Kinkell Byre, which is a few miles south of here.  The ball was held by DRA, one of the other halls here, and they had a bus to take you from there to Kinkell, but it's also the furthest hall from Albany, so we had to take taxis over there.  Luckily, on the way home, we were able to get the bus driver to drop us of at Albany, as it was on the way from Kinkell to DRA.  We were on the first bus to get to Kinkell, so when we arrived, we took advantage of the free champagne and ice cream before the ceilidh started.  The ceilidh band was there for a while, and was later replaced by a live band, and later a DJ.  It was not as serious and formal as I expected, but we had a lot of fun.


I've also been doing Irish dance.  The Dance Society here offers classes in a lot of different sorts of dance, from beginning to advanced levels.  The Beginning Irish class fit into my schedule, and it sounded like fun, so I joined.  Last week in class, we managed to get to the end of the dance we will be performing in the show in May.  Next week we will probably be videotaping the dance, so maybe I'll be able to post it (if I don't look absolutely awful in it).


Next Saturday I'm going to the Edinburgh Zoo, and the following week I'll probably be going to York, so I'll have something to post about.


Alas, I must get back to paper writing.  I have two fairly big ones due next week.