An American in Ireland.

Do you want to know how the Irish people can tell who the Americans are?

We all wear a North Face. And it's so true! Majority of the American students here have a North Face and wear it every time they go out. Out of the 12 or so kids from Arcadia at the Dublin ornamentation (the people going to Maynooth and Belfast), 3 of us had the exact same North Face coat. 2 of those 3 are Scott and I. We can be seen a great deal of the time walking around Maynooth looking like twins in black shoes or sneakers, jeans, a hoodie and a North Face.

You can also tell who the Americans are by the people not wearing skinny jeans and flat boots all the time or flowery skirts with black tights. Also, look for the handful of girls who are severely under dressed at the Roost on Thursday nights and you'll find Americans.

Or you can just wait until after participating in class discussion for about an hour and a half your American professor (we think) looks at you in front of the entire class of about 40 students and says...

Professor- I just realized that you don't have an accent! You're not Irish are you?
Me- No.
Professor- Are you from the States?
Me- Yes.
Professor- Where abouts?
Me- Massachusetts.
Irish students- *laughter*

I should have asked this professor where he was from since we're pretty sure that he's American and the anthropology world is rather small in the US.

He's also pretty funny because it's his first time as a lecturer, although he said he has been a guest lecturer before (presumably in the US). On the first day of class he asked everyone, "They don't actually lecture for the full 2 hours do they?" To which the class responded that they usually give you a break in between or only lecture for an hour and a half. The professor looked rather relieved and said "Okay, I didn't think so." All of his lectures have been about an hour and a half.

Also getting prescription drugs are ten times easier in Ireland than in America. This morning I went to the doctor, asked for the prescription, got it, went to the pharmacy and filled it in under 40 minutes and for only 7 euro. The longest part was figuring out what the overseas equivalent to what I take was, but we did!

And with that I'm almost late for being early to class.. tootles!