- Because it’s one in the afternoon!
I hate Jet Lag.
So many things have happened
in this last week, I don’t know how I’m going to put them all into this, but I’ll try! I suppose I’ll start with arriving in the Airport in Boston where Jay, my roommate, collected me. I couldn’t have got a better introduction to America seeing as he collected me in his Convertible Mustang! We drove to meet Louis, our other housemate and he took us to meet some of his friends where I promptly fell asleep on the couch. Life of the party as always.
Over the next few days, I got to know my housemates (2 of them at least, our ot
her housemate Juan is moving in on the 1st of September) and got to look around Boston College for a while as well and had a look at the football stadium and announced myself to the International office.
On Saturday our apartment was full of Irish people for a change; Oisin, Rob, Jamie, Brian, Sinead and Avril all came to Boston for a day to catch up before the lads got a 15hour bus to get to Ohio where they got a car and are currently making their way to LA to get their flight home. Kind of sickened that I can’t go with them, but Boston isn’t a bad place to have to stay!
I can now also say that I 
am a Red Sox fan! My friend Katie got me a ticket to the game against the Seattle Mariners, which they won 5-3! I wasn’t expecting much, but it turns out that it’s a lot of fun, especially when I had 3 exasperated Americans trying to explain to me what an inning was.
I had another group of Irish visitors, as well as one Canadian (She’s from Canadia) Rebecca, Conor, Caroline and Caitlin all crashed in my apartment for a few nights and we did a few touristy things, went to the aquarium, but more importantly, went to Salem! I don’t know why, but I expected it to be an 
old town that modern life hadn’t touched, but I was sorely disappointed to find that it was a fully functioning town with witch museums, but they were fun anyway!
So there’s been a lot of hanging around and meeting people, but I had International Orientation from Tuesday to Thursday where we had a strange mix of very boring talks and very fun people. I met my international assistant, Rob, who has been emailing me since I was accepted into BC, so he’s pretty much my go-to person if I need anything while I’m here so it was nice to meet him. We were all put into cluster groups with other internationals, and got to know each other and so were not totally on our ownio while we’re in BC, so it’s a great programme.
It's when I look at photos like this that I think "Wow, I live here" and then I smile. A lot.
