I just moved into the new apartment, and needed a desk. There was only one solution, Ikea time! The Ikea here in Dublin has just opened this summer so the store was full of first timers. It was like taking kids to their first trip to a theme park, lots of bubbling smiling Irish.

I was able to pick up a decent desk (69 Euro), desk chair (39 euro), plates, cutlery, mugs, and glasses much cheaper than the malls here.

More assembly pics below.

So many pieces. I think I will take a nap first.

My creation has legs!!

It’s looking like a desk.

Done! Who says I’m not handy? (Yes, I keep my pens in a roll of hockey tape)

Either way it doesn’t matter now, because I am in Dublin! This is my first time accross the ocean and it’s sort of unreal. Don’t think it has really hit me yet that I am going to be here for a long time. It feels more like a classics conference for a weekend or so.

The school work has been very fend for yourself, throw you in the deep end and learn to swim mind of teaching. There is a lot of “now cut open that and remove the blahadah” and before you can ask what a blahadah is, looks like, or where it is… it hits you that you don’t know the proper way to cut open that part of the leg or even if a “proper way” exists.

I don’t have the internet yet at my place and as I type this I am in the Mercer Library.  I feel very cut off from the world without internet.  I’m not sure if its the whole thousands of miles from home thing or just that I’m a computer geek but the isolation is almost freaky. 

Back to studying I must go. We have our big first test tomorrow and at present moment I know very little.