January 12, 2010

So it has become increasingly difficult to find internet here. My apartment has internet but its so sporadic that it rarely functions at a usable level. The first night we went out to a pizza buffet with some of the group members. John and I walked around town for a bit and kind of checked out what was going on. We found this giant cathedral next to our apartment, which has these enormous works of art that correspond with past saints. I went to the supermarket to pick up some food but unfortunately their was very little selection. I got some authentic stuff and headed home. There are a lot of Irish pubs in our area so we have been spending time there to meet people.
We headed uptown the next day and went to orientation at the new school. The city itself looks a little like Soviet Russia, but its definitely got a lot of things to offer. On our way back from the school we got lost, but we used human ingenuity and my gigantic brain to figure our way back