I was originally planning on writing about my experience in Belfast this past weekend, but since that seems somewhat redundant now, I thought I would share a fun little thing that happened to me tonight.
I was walking across Merville around 9 o'clock with a friend when guess what we encountered? A group of about 6 highly intoxicated young men. One of them decided that he no longer needed the 2 square inches of sandwich he had in his hand, and so he threw it at me, and he had great aim.
I like to view this rather embarrassing encounter as an example of the similarities between Irish and American college life. We have been talking a lot in our blogs about the things we found here that are different from home, but really a lot of what happens in my daily life here is pretty similar to what happens at home, and this is one thing that I would most definitely expect out of a similar group of Brandeis students.
One thing that is different about this interaction is what happened after. As we continued walking a security guard over-heard us calling after them. Not only did he ask us what had happened, but he also chased after the group. This is something that Brandeis security guards would never do. They hardly ever speak to students, and I've seem them completely ignore some really rude behavior. UCD definitely has more personable and friendly security.
That's definitely something that would happen at Fordham as well; college boys are obnoxious everywhere, go figure (kidding Kevin!). I think that's a really great observation though, college life here definitely isn't too different than home; they just drink during the week, instead of on the weekend.
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