Hey all! A lot has changed since I last wrote on this, like Cork wasn’t recovering from the worst flood ever and I had a car that wasn’t submerged in water for a day and was in perfect working condition!!

It would never flood in Kerry and that’s a fact!! Where I live in south Kerry the highest level of rainfall for the whole of Ireland was recorded there and it didn’t flood! Only in Kerry like! If that doesn’t prove how savage Kerry is I don’t know what would.

I’ve decided when I buy a house I’m going to buy it one on a hill just so it won’t be in danger of flooding and because I couldn’t go through the pain of watching my car get ruined again!! Even if I end up living in a desert I’ll build my house on a sand dune just to be safe!! You can’t be too cautious! And with global warning I’m sure the Sahara will soon be as flooded as the Grand Parade was last week!

We got our biomed and cell biology results back last week, I got on all right. The biomed test was impossible, was it just me that couldn’t do any of the calculations?? Though I was happy with my result. Negative marking is just cruel!! The math’s test last week went pretty well! I thought it was going to be way harder, thank god it wasn’t. Though I think I might be attending the wrong maths lectures because I can’t remember doing any of that stuff in lecturesLL. We have our presentation for cit module in a few week’s, thankfully I didn’t get stuck with talking!! I’d prefer to do the write up then speak.

We only have another few weeks until Christmas, I can’t believe it! Our first semester has just flown by!! Pity we’ll have Christmas tests ruining the run up to Christmas for us! God I think I might have wrote a bit too much but I want to say one thing before I go, anything you read in Maite’s blog about me is lies!! I’m a delightful young lady!! She’s always lying you better keep an eye on her!!! Don’t turn your back on her! Well that’s all I have to say for now.

Christine

Hey there, again!! One month from tomorrow it will be Christmas day. It’s exciting and scary at the same time. Almost half our year has gone, in a few weeks we will be finished our first semester. Time is flying past us.
We’ve already had most of our class tests done and have got some results back so we know how well we’re doing or in fact how well were not doing in our course. Its time to start putting our heads down and studying hard for the next few weeks for our end of year exams. Lab reports are painful. I hate thinking Oh yes I have another lab report to catch up on, and its like just when you’ve caught up, there’s another one due!! So annoying.
Last week was different for Cork. It did not stop raining all day Thursday which was fairly depressing, but it didn’t put a damper on the fact of going out that night. But by that night there was water waist high around Victoria Cross and at the end of college road!! People who went out had to swim and wade into there apartments Thursday night after coming home from town!!
Anyway enough about that, I think class parties are great. They let you get to no people in your class you have never spoken to before, especially if you have a few vodkas in you! Ha Okay maybe you might not remember everything you’ve said, you’ve done the hard part of breaking the ice! I can’t wait for our next class party!
Well thats it from me, talk to you again soon! Bye! :)

David's Blog - Friday 20th November 2009

Well, this week was... different! The signs really began to point in the wrong direction at midday on thursday when a lake formed at the end of College Road, making it virtually impossible to pass unless you were about to start training for London 2012!


Thursday afternoon passed in a midst of extremely wet clothes and broken hair-dryers (don't ask)... Then the evening came rolling around, and the fun really began! After some exceptional footwork, I managed to cross the bridge at the back of the Western Gateway Building, which was beginning to become submerged by the rising water-levels of the river. How I managed to avoid drowning myself, I'll never know! Anyway, I arrived at Victoria Lodge just before 10, with the intention of heading to a nightclub in the back of my mind. Half an hour later, and that completely changed; the area outside the apartment block was filled with water to waist-high! Some bright spark had the great idea of jumping in to the lough outside, so I obviously joined them..... I still ask myself why..... I think I displayed quite an exhibition of diving... I believe it was my semi front-flip that stole the show... 3 hours and a change of clothes later, it was time to head to sleep; no chance of going home in one piece.

I've always wondered what it would be like to ride on the back of a trailer... My curiosity was satisfied at half 10 on Friday morning when all the tenants were evacuated.. So, for reasons obvious, I couldn't attend the Friday morning Cell Biologylab that started at 9. Definitely a story to tell the grandchildren some day!!

But every cloud has a silver lining; I got the results of my Biomedical Science and Cell Biology exams... Delighted with the outcome! It's really all because of THE WORLD'S GREATEST LECTURER that I have! She needs no introduction!!

Hopefully Monday shapes up better than this week... Until next time!