Fire Alarms, Open Mic, and Sweet Sweet Success
Success! This morning was the third time I went to the immigration office to try and get out of paying a stupid “mandatory fee” that nobody else has had to pay. So Susanne (the head of the program) and Lexi came to give me support and I am happy to say that they finally gave me a break and stamped my passport and let me go without paying 250 dollars! Life is beautiful.
Lexi and I than waited in the immigration waiting room and watched the big bang scientific experiment going on. We joked about how sad it would be if the world were to end and we were sitting in the immigration waiting room the last moments of our lives. So now I am home again and thought I would write a little about the past few days since I have some time before my second class with my writing teacher Orla.
Since I last wrote, things have started calming down as classes kick into gear, but I like it that way because I like classes (hikes glasses onto nose). On Sunday night we decided to take a break from partying and spending money, so we ended up staying in and doing the little bit of homework we had … until the fire alarm went off.
Not sure if this was just customery, Jac, Adena and I decided better to be safe than sorry and started to leave the building. But in our frenzy decided to take the one thing we valued most here in Dublin … our computers. We got downstairs clutching our technology and realized there was no one else outside. we called up to our other NYUers in the building next door and they told us to go back inside and stop being nerdy with our computers, so we did.
On Monday a bunch of us decided that we would go out to the free open mic for singer songwriters at the International Pub. It was cool, there were some really good work and there was a really good slam poet, which was fun to hear in Ireland. He did some works by some classic poets like Oscar Wilde and than he read some of his own works, which were really great! Now I’m tempted to try my hand at slam poetry but it seems like a person needs balls of steel to pull that off.
Mostly these past few days I have been taking classes and actually doing homework (that’s right mom, I am actually doing my homework instead of drinking Jameson, now you can be proud of me again). I had my first contemporary Irish theater class and we got our schedule of shows we’ll be seeing throughout the semester. I’m excited to go to the theater festivals here and talk to the directors.
I also had my second history class and it was fun to learn about Ireland and the strange love hate relationship there was for a while with Britain. It’s kind of fun to learn about a country that has a history that dates back farther than 1492 (well actually America’s history is older than that, but sadly I was never taught much about Native American history in high school).
Than today I had my writing course where we learned some more about organising our scripts into a readable format. I’m getting a little bit nervous about presenting my rough outline I made to her tomorrow in our one on one meeting because, there are a lot of rules to writing a good screenplay. I just want to make sure to meet the requirments for a good screenplay. But, I guess that’s why I’m taking classes in the subject.
Now I have to go and continue to be a good student.
